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<MTCommentAuthorLink>

A linked version of the comment author name, using the comment author's URL if provided in the comment posting form. Otherwise, the comment author name is unlinked. This behavior can be altered with optional attributes:

Attributes:

  • show_email - Specifies if the comment author's email can be displayed. The default is false (0).
  • show_url - Specifies if the comment author's URL can be displayed. The default is true (1).
  • new_window - Specifies to open the link in a new window by adding "target=_blank" to the anchor tag. See example below. The default is false (0).
  • default_name - Used in the event that the commenter did not provide a value for their name.

Example code:

<$MTCommentAuthorLink new_window="1"$>

would become

<a href="http://www.sixapart.com/" target="_blank">Six Apart</a>