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How to get username?

binary10
Participant

@binary10

8 years, 5 months ago

So I have added a custom link on the user profile pages using HTML whick looks like this: http://somewebsite.com/members/username/something and I want the word “username” to be replaced by the username of the user whose profile is being displayed. I know I will have to use PHP (like: http://somewebsite.com/members/<?php //some code here?>/something)
but I know nothing about that. How can I do that?

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PinkishHue
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@pinkishhue

8 years, 5 months ago

Try <?php bp_displayed_user_username(); ?>

binary10
Participant

@binary10

8 years, 5 months ago

Thanks that works

topherjamesknoll
Participant

@topherjamessf

6 years, 2 months ago

Hi there,

This doesn’t work for me. I’m building a theme from scratch and I think it’s just ’cause I haven’t included something. Do you know what that might be? Does a separate theme need to call something from the BuddyPress plugin?

shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

6 years, 2 months ago

bp_displayed_user_username() only works on a BP profile page.

Try:

echo bp_core_get_user_displayname( bp_loggedin_user_id() );

or

echo bp_core_get_username( bp_loggedin_user_id() );

topherjamesknoll
Participant

@topherjamessf

6 years, 2 months ago

Bwa! I’m so dumb. I haven’t been using echo. LOL!

So, I’m still curious. What would constitute a BP profile page? Right now I just have pages like index.php and page.php in the theme I’m building.

Also, THANKS!!!

shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

6 years, 2 months ago

>What would constitute a BP profile page?

Any page specific to a user, usually with an url like: .../members/topher/some-tab

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