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User Meta Output On Profile

Alex Stine
Participant

@alexstine

7 years, 3 months ago
Hello,
I have a custom user meta field which is a staff label field. For people with “staff” capability, they can go to their profile in WP admin and enter some text for a label such as “Lead Developer, Writer, Support, etc. I would like to output this label on BBPress profile but cannot figure out how to do it. I am using the currently displayed profile ID. In the following file:
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/members-header.php
I know it’s bad to hack core files, I will move to my themes folder once it’s working. This is the code I have currently.
```
<?php
$member_id = bp_displayed_user_id();
if ( user_can( $member_id, 'staff' ) ) {
if ( get_the_author_meta( 'staff') ) {
$x = ( get_the_author_meta( 'staff', $member_id ) == '' ) ? "Staff" : get_the_author_meta( 'staff', $member_id );
echo '<div class="staff-label">';
echo $x ;
echo '</div>';
} 
} ?>
```
This code is working fine in the comments area with different logic to grab the user ID, just not working for BuddyPress. Any suggestions?
Thanks.

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Alex Stine
Participant

@alexstine

7 years, 3 months ago

Any suggestions? Really need to get this working.

Thanks.

shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

7 years, 3 months ago

Did you try using the meta function?
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_user_meta

And you don’t need user_can.
Just request the meta and show if it exists.
Alex Stine
Participant

@alexstine

7 years, 3 months ago
Hello @shanebp,

I tried this code but it did not work. Anywhere I went wrong?
```
$member_id = bp_displayed_user_id();
$x = ( get_the_user_meta( 'staff', $member_id ) == '' ) ? "Staff" : get_the_user_meta( 'staff', $member_id );
echo '<div class="staff-label">';
echo $x ;
echo '</div>';
```
Thanks.
shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

7 years, 3 months ago
> Anywhere I went wrong?

Yeah, you didn’t read the codex page.

Try:
```
$staff = get_user_meta( bp_displayed_user_id(), 'staff', true ); 
if ( ! empty ( $staff ) )
    echo $staff;
```
Alex Stine
Participant

@alexstine

7 years, 3 months ago
Hello

Thanks, I seemed to misread the codex. I did not realize the word “the” was not included. Here’s the code that did it for me in the end.
```
		$member_id = bp_displayed_user_id();
		$x = ( get_user_meta( $member_id, 'staff', true ) == '' ) ? "Staff" : get_user_meta( $member_id, 'staff', true );
			echo '<div class="staff-label">';
			echo $x;
			echo '</div>';
		?>
```
Thanks for your help @shanebp.

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