From 3a5f8c0ead9c31348b9e7b5d1fbf5d234785a0b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Westwood <westi@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:32:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Support specific author templates by id or user_nicename.
 Fixes #12064 props nacin.

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@12915 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/theme.php | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/theme.php b/wp-includes/theme.php
index e44941a6c1..133f851738 100644
--- a/wp-includes/theme.php
+++ b/wp-includes/theme.php
@@ -710,7 +710,19 @@ function get_archive_template() {
  * @return string
  */
 function get_author_template() {
-	return get_query_template('author');
+	$author_id = absint( get_query_var( 'author' ) );
+	$author = get_user_by( 'id', $author_id )->user_nicename;
+
+	$templates = array();
+
+	if ( $author )
+		$templates[] = "author-{$author}.php";
+	if ( $author_id )
+		$templates[] = "author-{$author_id}.php";
+	$templates[] = 'author.php';
+
+	$template = locate_template( $templates );
+	return apply_filters( 'author_template', $template );
 }
 
 /**