Adding Author Custom Field

  • Resolved njfrese

    (@njfrese)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    I created a custom field called “title” and I would like to add the author’s title to the meta info at the top of each post (content-post-meta.php). How do I do that?

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  • Plugin Author Chad Butler

    (@cbutlerjr)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    All custom fields are stored as user meta, so you can retrieve the value with get_user_meta().

    Also, you could use the field shortcode [wpmem_field name_of_field]

    Thread Starter njfrese

    (@njfrese)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    I added the following code to the content-post-meta.php file:

    <?php get_user_meta(); ?>

    I get nothing back. Also tried:

    <?php echo get_user_meta(); ?>

    Still nothing. I know I gotta be doing something wrong, but I can’t figure it out. I tried the example code and DID get the user’s last name. But the custom field that I created, called title, I cannot seem to access.

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by njfrese.
    Thread Starter njfrese

    (@njfrese)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Ok, I finally did figure out where I was going wrong. Now, how to I get the User ID of the author so I can grab his specific title? I got it to work by hard-coding the user ID.

    Plugin Author Chad Butler

    (@cbutlerjr)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    That’s more of a WordPress question than a plugin question; but… there are a lot of different ways (and it depends somewhat on if you are in the Loop or not). Probably the most straightforward in the Loop would be:

    $author_id = $post->post_author;

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