Title: Author User Firstname shortcode does not render
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Author User Firstname shortcode does not render

 *  Resolved [George](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quantum_leap/)
 * (@quantum_leap)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-user-firstname-shortcode-does-not-render/)
 * Author User Firstname: [user_firstname] doesn’t seem to output the author’s first
   name. It only outputs [user_firstname]
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/bnfw/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bnfw/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Jack – BNFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voltronik/)
 * (@voltronik)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-user-firstname-shortcode-does-not-render/#post-7385476)
 * Hi quantum_leap,
    Thanks for your message.
 * What notification is this for?
    Can you confirm that the author has a first name
   set in their user profile?
 * Thanks,
    Jack
 *  Thread Starter [George](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quantum_leap/)
 * (@quantum_leap)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-user-firstname-shortcode-does-not-render/#post-7385485)
 * The notification is for a custom post type’s New Comment(WP Job Manager). Other
   shortcodes also do not seem to work like [user_nicename], [user_lastname], [nickname],
   etc
 * Author has first and last name for sure, the original post author [post_author]
   shortcode works fine(it displays first and last name though).
 *  Plugin Author [Jack – BNFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voltronik/)
 * (@voltronik)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-user-firstname-shortcode-does-not-render/#post-7385644)
 * Hi quantum_leap,
    Just done some testing and can confirm this is a bug.
 * This should be fixed in a release coming out soon.
    I’ll leave this thread open
   until it’s released.
 * Thanks,
    Jack
 *  Thread Starter [George](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quantum_leap/)
 * (@quantum_leap)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-user-firstname-shortcode-does-not-render/#post-7385647)
 * Ok thanks for the very fast response time Jack!
 *  Plugin Author [Jack – BNFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voltronik/)
 * (@voltronik)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-user-firstname-shortcode-does-not-render/#post-7385822)
 * This should now be fixed in the latest release, available shortly.
    Please have
   a read through the [Changelog](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bnfw/changelog/)
   for anything that may effect you.
 * Thanks,
    Jack
 *  Thread Starter [George](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quantum_leap/)
 * (@quantum_leap)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-user-firstname-shortcode-does-not-render/#post-7385825)
 * I can confirm that it works now, thanks once again!
 *  Plugin Author [Jack – BNFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voltronik/)
 * (@voltronik)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-user-firstname-shortcode-does-not-render/#post-7385826)
 * Great! Glad to hear it.
    If you like the plugin and the support, please feel 
   free to leave an honest [review](https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/bnfw#postform).
 * Thanks,
    Jack
 *  Thread Starter [George](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quantum_leap/)
 * (@quantum_leap)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-user-firstname-shortcode-does-not-render/#post-7385827)
 * I have already done so a while ago!
 *  Plugin Author [Jack – BNFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voltronik/)
 * (@voltronik)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-user-firstname-shortcode-does-not-render/#post-7385828)
 * Then thank you again! Wonderful!
    Jack

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## Tags

 * [firstname](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/firstname/)
 * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/)
 * [user](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/user/)

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 * Last reply from: [Jack – BNFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voltronik/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-user-firstname-shortcode-does-not-render/#post-7385828)
 * Status: resolved