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Get Xprofile field of page author

jaudain
Participant

@jaudain

11 years, 1 month ago

Hey There, I need a bit of help, I’m basically trying to echo a field, but so far i’ve only been able to do this.

<?php echo xprofile_get_field_data( 'TWITCH TV Username', $current_user->ID ); ?>

Currently this will echo said field for the currently logged in user, but what i need is to get the field for the author of the page.

Ive tried <?php echo xprofile_get_field_data( 'TWITCH TV Username', get_the_author_id() ); ?>
But this just returns nothing at all.

Any help would be great, thanks.

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David Cavins
Keymaster

@dcavins

11 years, 1 month ago

Looks like the problem is that the WP function you’re using is deprecated. Try

get_the_author_meta('ID')

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_author_meta

jaudain
Participant

@jaudain

11 years, 1 month ago

Thanks for the reply, You we’re right it was deprecated, however still no joy.

e.g. <?php echo xprofile_get_field_data( 'TWITCH TV Username', get_the_author_meta('ID') ); ?>

Also tried <?php echo xprofile_get_field_data( 'TWITCH TV Username', the_author_meta('ID') ); ?> re: https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author_meta

Also with no joy.

Any other thoughts

jaudain
Participant

@jaudain

11 years, 1 month ago

Sorry to double post, but I’m still not sure how to do this, or am I doing something wrong?

jaudain
Participant

@jaudain

11 years, 1 month ago

Update: I seem to have figured it out.

The problem was i was using the_author_meta('ID') which has an echo built into it to display the info, so instead i used get_the_author_meta('ID') and now it seems to be working ok.

Really strange because i was sure i tried it already lol.

<?php echo xprofile_get_field_data( 'TWITCH TV Username', get_the_author_meta('ID') ); ?>

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