Allow per-author templates

[MC_incubus]

Would be nice if you could do per-author templates, using the author ID, much like you can do now with per-category templates.

[chuyskywalker]

This would best be handled as a plugin. There are plenty of hooks for catching what template is about to be output and changing it up. As an example, ​Post Template Plugin will "hook" based on categories to change the file used when displaying a post. Taking that and extending it to "hook" for associated author ID's shouldn't be much of a leap.

[rob1n]

Replying to chuyskywalker:

This would best be handled as a plugin. There are plenty of hooks for catching what template is about to be output and changing it up. As an example, ​Post Template Plugin will "hook" based on categories to change the file used when displaying a post. Taking that and extending it to "hook" for associated author ID's shouldn't be much of a leap.

I don't agree. There is other similar functionality in WP already (category-xx.php, etc.). Is this already in 2.1/2.2, though? I'll check.

[rob1n]

It's not in 2.2, but I can write a patch for it if the devs agree that this is a good idea.

[rob1n]

Okay, I thought about this a bit, and I can't see the point for per-author templates. Per-category templates, yes, because you could run a link blog or something out of a certain category and you could make it look the part too.

But a per-author template just doesn't seem to have any use. I'm closing this as wontfix, if you can provide a valid argument for why it should be in here, reopen the ticket and add a comment to that effect, and I'll code up a patch for it. But, for now, wontfix.

[majelbstoat]

You could use it to simulate multiple blogs, if each author had a different a different template, showing their template whenever a single author's content was on display. But chuyskywalker is right - this is perfect plugin material, using template redirect, (and actually a pretty good idea).