Try this code. $author = get_user_by( ‘slug’, get_query_var( ‘author_name’ ) ); echo $author->ID; Alternatively, if author name has not been set use: if ( $author_id = get_query_var( ‘author’ ) ) { $author = get_user_by( ‘id’, $author_id ); } credit @AndyAdams in the easily missed comments bellow
You might wish to try.. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-author-base/ Hope that helps.. 😉
I see two ways to solve this problem: changing the data that forms the author URL, or changing the author URL. You probably should handle redirects too, so old URLs to user archives keep working when a user changes their nickname. Changing the author URL There are two parts to this question: handle incoming links … Read more
This is a simple hack I wrote in a similar situation. It will display all the Subscribers in the Author dropdown on edit/add post/page, from where you can select any one you want. I think it should work for you… add_filter(‘wp_dropdown_users’, ‘MySwitchUser’); function MySwitchUser($output) { //global $post is available here, hence you can check for … Read more
For an author’s profile link, use bp_core_get_user_domain( $user_id ) to get the URL, and bp_core_get_userlink( $user_id ) to get an HTML link element, including display name. For the xprofile data, use xprofile_get_field_data( $field, $user_id ) $field can be either the name of the field (like ‘Biography’) or the numerical field id.
The above answer is good, but if redirecting to home page, it should specify a 301 status and exit after. add_action(‘template_redirect’, ‘my_custom_disable_author_page’); function my_custom_disable_author_page() { global $wp_query; if ( is_author() ) { // Redirect to homepage, set status to 301 permenant redirect. // Function defaults to 302 temporary redirect. wp_redirect(get_option(‘home’), 301); exit; } } wp_redirect() … Read more
The simplest and most straightforward way to get the post author ID outside the loop, if you know the post ID, is to use the WordPress core function get_post_field(). $post_author_id = get_post_field( ‘post_author’, $post_id ); If you do not yet know the post ID of the page you are on, then since WP 3.1 the … Read more
The easiest way would be using get_post_field(): $post_author_id = get_post_field( ‘post_author’, $post_id ); For more details on this issue: have a look at this StackOverflow answer.
I would use transients to do this: create a user-online-update function that you hook on init; it would look something like this: // get the user activity the list $logged_in_users = get_transient(‘online_status’); // get current user ID $user = wp_get_current_user(); // check if the current user needs to update his online status; // he does … Read more
I would say that for most purposes @author is unwanted noise. The user of your API shouldn’t – and probably doesn’t – care, or want to know, who wrote which parts. And, as you have already stated, SVN already holds this information in a much more authoritative way than the code can. So if I was one … Read more