the_author does not display

  • aletalk

    (@aletalk)


    14 years, 2 months ago

    Hi

    I’m trying to display info from the last 2 posts in my blog on a page outside of wordpress.
    This is the code:
    At the head of the page:
    define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, false);
    require(‘/var/www/aletalking/wp-load.php’);
    query_posts(‘showposts=2’);

    & where i want to display the info:
    <?php while (have_posts()): the_post(); ?>
    <?php the_title(); ?>
    <?php the_date(); ?> by <?php the_author(); ?><?php the_excerpt(); ?>
    <?php endwhile; ?>

    Everything displays as it should except the_author() – which is missing – is there something simple i’m missing? The author is set up correctly as it displays on the actual blog as it should

    Any help would be greatly appreciated
    Cheers

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  • lee@digitalacorn

    (@leedigitalacorn)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    You could try and add ‘global $post’ at the top of the file

    if that does nothing by itself try and add this in the first line of the while
    setup_postdata($post);

    Lee.

    Thread Starter aletalk

    (@aletalk)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    You could try and add ‘global $post’ at the top of the file

    if that does nothing by itself try and add this in the first line of the while
    setup_postdata($post);

    Lee.

    Hi Lee

    Thanks for the reply. I’ve tried both options but the_author() is still missing.

    It seems strange to me that everything else should display ok apart from this field…

    Cheers

    lee@digitalacorn

    (@leedigitalacorn)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Did you try them at the same time?

    sorry then I’m not sure, someone else might know.

    As a stab in the dark you could try ‘echo get_the_author()’

    or as a total stab try calling wp_footer() << sometimes seems to work magic 🙂

    Sorry I couldn’t be of any more help.
    Lee.

    Thread Starter aletalk

    (@aletalk)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Nope, still no luck

    Thanks anyway Lee

    Can’t quite get my head round why everything else displays ok, there must be something specific to the_author() i’m missing…

    lee@digitalacorn

    (@leedigitalacorn)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    must be to do with the loop or lack of it.

    investigate the function below – you might be able to get it from what that returns instead.

    get_userdata()

    chrisob120

    (@chrisob120)

    14 years ago

    Is there any updates on this? I’m having the same error. The author shows on the page outside of wordpress when I change

    "define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);"

    to

    "define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);"

    however.

    chrisob120

    (@chrisob120)

    14 years ago

    For anyone out there that still has problems with the_author(); on external (or maybe in on WordPress) sites, I’ve figured out why it didn’t work for me.

    I was calling another database after the call to WordPress blog-header. I don’t understand why the other fields worked even with the call to the other database, but when I took that out it worked fine for the_author();.

    This pissed me off for so long so I hope this helps someone else.

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