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[Resolved] Using bp displayed user to query posts

@robparker

Participant

10 years, 4 months ago

I have a site where some posts are labelled by applying a user as a custom field. In WordPress, I can create a page which displays all posts linked to the currently logged in user, by testing for posts that equal their username.

My answered query was at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-if-custom-field-value-equals-a-current-user-value?replies=3 and I’ve also found a method at http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/how-to-query-posts-filtered-by-custom-field-values/ (Example 2)

Now I’m looking to display within the user’s Buddypress Profile. I thought the same approach may work, asking for $bp->displayed_user->user_login rather than current user but it doesn’t seem to work – just says no posts found.

If anyone can shed some light on this, I’d be very very grateful

Thank you

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@henrywright

Moderator

10 years, 4 months ago
Hi @robparker,

May I ask why you’re querying by username and not by user ID?

You can simply use the author parameter with WP_Query. Using what you linked to as an example:
```
$args = array(
    'posts_per_page' => 10,
    'paged' => $paged,
    'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1,
    'author' => $user_id
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
```
Where $user_id will be bp_displayed_user_id() if you’re doing this query on a member’s profile page. Else, it’ll be something else depending on the context in which you’re using WP_Query.
@shanebp

Moderator

10 years, 4 months ago
I can guess why author may != the meta value, but it would be a lot easier if you stored the user id in that meta value field.

Anyhow, you could use get_user.
$person = get_user_by('id', bp_displayed_user_id());

then
```
...
'meta_value' =>  $person->user_login
...
```
@robparker

Participant

10 years, 4 months ago

Thank you both

The tricky thing about this site (and the bit I wasn’t involved in building) is that the username saved is not the post author, its just a custom field.

However, the suggestion from @shanebp solves the problem – thank you very much.

And thank you again to @henrywright – I think you’ve actually answered the next problem I was moving on to look at, where a second post type is set-up by author.

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