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

Attributes:

• show_email - Specifies if the author's email can be displayed. The default is false (0).
• show_url - Specifies if the 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).

new_window Example code:

<$MTEntryAuthorLink new_window="1"$>

would become

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

If no display name is specified, MTEntryAuthorDisplayName returns NULL, and no name is displayed.