From bfe8ba91b6d3f874d17023d352919a656929ea82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Biryukov <sergeybiryukov.ru@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 23:01:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Template: In `get_the_archive_description()`, add support for
 author archives.

Props henry.wright.
Fixes #37259.
Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@38486


git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@38427 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/general-template.php | 11 +++++++++--
 wp-includes/version.php          |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/general-template.php b/wp-includes/general-template.php
index 7dccf35f7c..c1699e2ca4 100644
--- a/wp-includes/general-template.php
+++ b/wp-includes/general-template.php
@@ -1505,7 +1505,7 @@ function get_the_archive_title() {
 }
 
 /**
- * Display category, tag, or term description.
+ * Display category, tag, term, or author description.
  *
  * @since 4.1.0
  *
@@ -1522,13 +1522,20 @@ function the_archive_description( $before = '', $after = '' ) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Retrieve category, tag, or term description.
+ * Retrieve category, tag, term, or author description.
  *
  * @since 4.1.0
+ * @since 4.7.0 Added support for author archives.
  *
  * @return string Archive description.
  */
 function get_the_archive_description() {
+	if ( is_author() ) {
+		$description = get_the_author_meta( 'description' );
+	} else {
+		$description = term_description();
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Filters the archive description.
 	 *
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index d5f1ab8cbc..ca639043ac 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '4.7-alpha-38484';
+$wp_version = '4.7-alpha-38486';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.