Outputs a linked author name suitable for publishing in the 'byline' of an entry.

Attributes:

• new_window

  If specified, the published link is given a target attribute of '_blank'.

• show_email (optional; default "0")

  If set, will allow publishing of an email address if the URL field for the author is empty.

• spam_protect (optional)

  If specified, this will apply a light obfuscation of any email address published, by encoding any characters that will identify it as an email address (:, @, and .) into HTML entities.

• type (optional)

  Accepted values: url, email, archive. Note: an 'archive' type requires publishing of "Author" archives.

• show_hcard (optional; default "0")

  If present, adds additional CSS class names to the link tag published, identifying the link as a url or email address depending on the type of link published.