WordPress function that retrieves both posts written by a specific author& posts that contain a tag matching author’s username on author archive page
toscho is correct. User levels have been deprecated for a long time now. However, the following will get you the available information about the author of the posts on an author archive page. $author = get_queried_object(); var_dump($author); In that dump you should see everything you need, but use the role not the user level– look … Read more
To get the data of the user displayed on the current author archive page you can use: $author = get_user_by( ‘slug’, get_query_var( ‘author_name’ ) ); $user_info = get_userdata( $author->ID ); More info on what is returned: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_userdata From there you can use the user details you need: <?php echo $user_info->user_firstname . ‘ ‘ . $user_info->user_lastname; … Read more
I can’t give you an exact contextual answer because you have not provided your code, however the functions (with example usage) listed below should do what you require. On each blog post on the index.php page I want to display the authors name and image. Inside The Loop you can get the name of the … Read more
You can have as many authors as you’d like. If the artists are not the authors of the blog posts, I would consider using a custom taxonomy instead, because it would be a more accurate model. EDIT As it’s been pointed out in the comments, taxonomies don’t have built-in meta data, and custom post types … Read more
Try ‘author’ => $curauth->ID instead of ‘author_id’=> $curauth->ID since author_id is not a valid parameter.
The $current_user object retrieves the currently signed-in user. What you want is the ID of the author whose page you’re viewing. Try this: global $wp_query; $author_id = $wp_query->queried_object_id; $author_posts = get_posts( array(‘author’ => $author_id) ); $counter = 0; // needed to collect the total sum of views foreach ( $author_posts as $post ) { $views … Read more
There is a filter called author_link. You can use that change the URL to whatever you want. add_filter( ‘author_link’, function ($link, $author_id, $author_nicename) { var_dump($link, $author_id, $author_nicename); // debug return $link; // return your modified URL }, 1,3 ); The question does not have enough detail to allow for more specific code. You can use … Read more
On an “author” page get_query_var(‘author’) will give you the ID. get_queried_object() will get you considerably more author information. $author = get_queried_object(); echo $author->ID; // var_dump($author); // to see all of the information available. For retrieving custom author data follow the Codex.
You’re going to want to use the author_template filter to process this. Just to clarify, the filter’s “author” means all users, it appears. I’m not sure why. This will be called while the backend is deciding which template page to use when showing a user’s profile on your site. You need to add an author-editor.php … Read more