Title: Generating author.php content when author has zero posts?
Last modified: April 26, 2017

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# Generating author.php content when author has zero posts?

 *  Anonymous User 8639124
 * (@anonymized-8639124)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/generating-author-php-content-when-author-has-zero-posts/)
 * I have a subset of users (defined by the user capability edit_dashboard) for 
   whom I want their email address to appear next to their name on their author.
   php page:
 *     ```
       <h1><span><?php echo $curauth->display_name; 
       	if (author_can( $post->ID, 'edit_dashboard' )) {
       		echo "(".$curauth->user_email.")";
       	} ?>
       </span></h1>
       ```
   
 * The problem I’ve run into is that it doesn’t output the email address if the 
   user has zero posts. Is there a way to tweak that?

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/generating-author-php-content-when-author-has-zero-posts/#post-9072421)
 * That is not default behavior, there’s no reason for it. I’m guessing your theme
   or a plugin has suppressed emails for a specific purpose and is applying their
   filter too broadly. Depending on how the email is suppressed, you may need to
   identify the source of the filter by deactivating different components until 
   the email shows up again, as it would if everything were deactivated and you 
   used a default theme.
 * Before going through that exercise, lets see if we can do an end run around this
   behavior. Try this variation:
 *     ```
       echo "(". htmlspecialchars( get_user('ID', $curauth->ID )->data->user_email ) .")";
       // ignore this line - single line code is handled in a way that I hate
       ```
   
 * What this does is re-retrieves the user object and uses the raw data version 
   of the email, which bypasses a number of filters, one of which sanitizes the 
   data, so we sanitize it ourself with htmlspecialchars(). If this does not help,
   you’ll need to narrow down which module is causing the problem. Once found, try
   to identify any filter hooks with tags that include “user” or “email”. Maybe 
   you can add code that removes the hook when it’s not needed.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User 8639124
 * (@anonymized-8639124)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/generating-author-php-content-when-author-has-zero-posts/#post-9074246)
 * Thanks a bunch for your help. Looks indeed like there’s a conflict somewhere.
   Just to double-check I’m using your suggested code correctly, does your echo 
   solely replace my third line (my second echo), or does it replace everything 
   from the first echo through to the closing bracket?
 * My guess at the moment is there’s a conflict between my theme ([Erudito](http://www.wpzoom.com/themes/erudito/))
   and my author page URL plugin ([SF Author Url Control](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sf-author-url-control/)),
   but there’s enough funkiness when I test it that I should really wait until my
   dept _finally_ gets a proper dev site set up.
 * I’ll leave this topic open for now in the hopes I have an update soon!
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/generating-author-php-content-when-author-has-zero-posts/#post-9075744)
 * It just replaces the one echo line complete, nothing else. If that doesn’t help,
   we can try getting the value straight out of the DB with $wpdb->get_var().
 * I suspect the author plugin more than the theme. You could try getting a user
   object of someone with no posts, assign it to $curauth, then deactivate the plugin.
   I suspect the email will be output. No doubt having the plugin deactivated will
   break other things. It’s just a quick test for email output only. Once you’ve
   determined if the email is output or not, re-acitvate the plugin.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User 8639124
 * (@anonymized-8639124)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/generating-author-php-content-when-author-has-zero-posts/#post-9113684)
 * Alrighty, got it working. The issue was not having called the necessary info 
   first. In my case, I failed to use the get_query_var function and the line $author_user
   = $wp_query->get_queried_object(); …
 *     ```
       <?php $curauth = (get_query_var('author_name')) ? get_user_by('slug', get_query_var('author_name')) : get_userdata(get_query_var('author')); ?>
       <div class="intro intro-archives">
       	<h1><span><?php echo $curauth->display_name;
       		$author_user = $wp_query->get_queried_object();
       		if (user_can($author_user, 'edit_dashboard')) { 				
       			echo " (".$curauth->user_email.")";
       		}		
       		?>
       ```
   
 *  etc
    -  This reply was modified 9 years ago by Anonymous User 8639124.

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