How To Get a Post Author’s ID (In Single Post View)?

  • Resolved Dzhuneyt

    (@mrgee)


    14 years, 2 months ago

    Hello.

    I want to be able to get the post author’s name or ID in single post view, but I couldn’t find a working function in the WordPress codex yet.

    get_the_author() can be used only inside The Loop and I want to get the information I need inside the <head> part of my site (before the Loop starts).

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  • Edward Caissie

    (@cais)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    This seems to be more than meets the eye … once you have the “post author’s name or ID” what will you be doing with it?

    For example, if this is style related, the body_class() function provides a class unique for each author.

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    I believe posts[0]->post_author would have the single post author ID

    Thread Starter Dzhuneyt

    (@mrgee)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    I will display custom JavaScript code based on the author.

    I will try the solution that MichaelH provided and post. If I don’t post, it means it works and I have forgot about this thread 😀

    Thread Starter Dzhuneyt

    (@mrgee)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    It does work! Only instead of posts[0] it should be $posts[0].

    This is the code that works for me:

    $getid = $posts[0]->post_author;
if($getid == 5){
// Do something that is specific for user with ID 5
}
if($getid == 2){
// Do something for user with ID = 2
}
// And so on...

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Good catch. Marking this resolved.

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