editedByCoz!

/* Start Get Author Link */
function my_authors_meta($atts){
ob_start();
        /* If the user passed an integer then good to go */
        if (is_numeric($atts[0])) {
                $authorid = $atts[0];
                echo '<a href="';
                echo get_bloginfo('url');
                echo '/author/';
                echo the_author_meta('user_nicename', $authorid );
                echo '/">';
                echo the_author_meta('display_name', $authorid );
        echo '</a>';
        }
$output_string = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $output_string;
}
add_shortcode('author', 'my_authors_meta');
add_filter('my_authors_meta', 'do_shortcode');
/* Start Get Author Link call [author id] */