Title: data_source=”user_data” not working
Last modified: July 1, 2019

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# data_source=”user_data” not working

 *  Resolved [sevans917](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sevans917/)
 * (@sevans917)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data_sourceuser_data-not-working/)
 * Hey, this is a very handy plugin. Thank you!
 * When I try it with key=”first_name” for example, when data_source=”user_data”
   I get no output, but when I change the source to “user_meta” it works.

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 *  Plugin Author [Jose Vega](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josevega/)
 * (@josevega)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data_sourceuser_data-not-working/#post-11701981)
 * Thank you for reporting the issue. It’s a mistake in the documentation, it should
   be user_meta for retrieving the name as the name is stored in the user meta table
   in the database.

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 * Last reply from: [Jose Vega](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josevega/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data_sourceuser_data-not-working/#post-11701981)
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