Customize the Author Archive Page with GeneratePress & GenerateBlocks (there's a trick to it!)

In today's video, I'm going to show you how you can create a fully-customizable Author Archive Template using a GeneratePress "Element" and GenerateBlocks dynamic blocks (including the query loop block).

It's actually super simple — but you have to know a couple of the "tricks" to get it to work correctly (IMO, it's not as intuitive as it should be).

If you have any kind of site with multiple authors, setting up this template is a great bit of polish for your website — and it's simple to do!

[ Video Created and Produced by Kyle Van Deusen ]

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[christophenicolas]

Thank you for your time. You've given me the solution to my problem of displaying category pages. All your videos are very useful.

[jhc]

Very similar to how I set up my author archives template. It took some figuring out how to accomplish it in GP/GB. I'm sure this tutorial will save people a lot of time. Thanks for posting.

[jpptr]

I stumbled upon this video today and truly appreciated it. The mention of a similar process for configuring search archives and 404 pages piqued my interest. I'm reaching out to express my interest in a single video or a series covering these topics, alongside a tutorial on customizing Category and Tag Archive pages. Your tutorials are fantastic!

[ben.]

Hey Kyle, This was such a good guide - thank you! Just what I needed, and that bonus tip about wrap into flex columns might be a game changer for me :D

[adamwrightdesign]

Slick! I learned a couple things! Thanks man! 🙌

[nemic]

Thank you so much for this tutorial, but I have one question, how about adding some load more button on the archive?

[thomasdalsgaardclausen]

Great tutorial - but I might be a little bit in over my head. How would you go about making a custom category page, not author archives? I guess it's very similar, but would you have to make a custom template for each category (if you want some specific text/data about each category on there) or can you put that category-relevant data somewhere and pull it in dynamically like you do for the author pages?

[livingoutlau]

Hey Kyle, great video. Is there a way to include social media icons in the author archives that are dynamic?

[auftragjetzt]

Do you think is a good idea to rank a author page for a keyword like: „Google Ads Expert“ in SEO or it is better to do a normal site for this Keyword. Because I have the felling the author page is a bit hard to rank…

[InsideEVsPakistan]

Hi...
Mobile visibility is okay but not visibility in the desktop, plz guide me

[WebSEOwithKrishanu]

Can you make blog website complete include single post layout using generate block free version ?

[marcelogarcia]

Hey Kyle, thanks for this great video.

One thing I'm trying to find a good, and simple solution for, is how to protect the username from being exposed in the author's URL. This happens by default in wordpress.

If you think this is a good topic to make a video, or if you have a good source to point to, it will be of great help. Thank you again.

[sheikhhasibahmed]

how to create different different Author Archive Page design

[davidmartinezfuentes]

Thanks for the video, all your videos are helping me a lot.
But I wanted to ask you a question:
I have seen that you use Microsoft Edge. Not if you've already talked about why you use it. But why not Chrome or Safari?
You can make a video explaining why you use Edge.

(Gracias por el vídeo, todos tus vídeos me están ayudando una barbarididad.
Pero te quería hacer una pregunta:
He visto que usas Microsoft Edge. No si ya has hablado de porqué lo usas. Pero ¿Por qué no, Chrome o Safari?
Puedes hacer un vídeo explicando porqué usas Edge. )