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Description

Retrieves the requested data of the author of the current post.

Valid values for the $field parameter include:

• admin_color
• aim
• comment_shortcuts
• description
• display_name
• first_name
• ID
• jabber
• last_name
• nickname
• plugins_last_view
• plugins_per_page
• rich_editing
• syntax_highlighting
• user_activation_key
• user_description
• user_email
• user_firstname
• user_lastname
• user_level
• user_login
• user_nicename
• user_pass
• user_registered
• user_status
• user_url
• yim

Usage

$string = get_the_author_meta( $field, $user_id );

Parameters

$field

( string ) optional – Optional. The user field to retrieve. Default empty.

$user_id

( int|false ) optional – Optional. User ID.

Returns

string The author's field from the current author's DB object, otherwise an empty string.

Source

File name: wordpress/wp-includes/author-template.php
Lines:

function get_the_author_meta( $field = '', $user_id = false ) {
  $original_user_id = $user_id;

  if ( ! $user_id ) {
    global $authordata;
    $user_id = isset( $authordata->ID ) ? $authordata->ID : 0;
  } else {
    $authordata = get_userdata( $user_id );
  }

  if ( in_array( $field, array( 'login', 'pass', 'nicename', 'email', 'url', 'registered', 'activation_key', 'status' ), true ) ) {
    $field = 'user_' . $field;
  }

  $value = isset( $authordata->$field ) ? $authordata->$field : '';

  
/**
 * Filters the value of the requested user metadata.
 *
 * The filter name is dynamic and depends on the $field parameter of the function.
 *
 * @since 2.8.0
 * @since 4.3.0 The `$original_user_id` parameter was added.
 *
 * @param string    $value            The value of the metadata.
 * @param int       $user_id          The user ID for the value.
 * @param int|false $original_user_id The original user ID, as passed to the function.
 */
  return apply_filters( "get_the_author_{$field}", $value, $user_id, $original_user_id );
}
 

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