author meta tag in header

  • Archie Webmaker

    (@weblogian)


    14 years, 2 months ago

    The code below doesn’t work with the header.php but it show in other place eg. the sidebar.
    <?php the_author_meta(‘headerads’); ?>

    Can anyone tell me the reason why and show me the way. I am starting a collaborative blog. I will to show user specified ads in the header from their profile page.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    You need to specify a user id outside of the Loop.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author_meta

    Thread Starter Archie Webmaker

    (@weblogian)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Dear esmi
    specifying a user id for each users will be a tiresome jobs to do. It means I have to create custom headers for each users. Suppose if I have 1000s users!!!??

    I think WordPress is missing on this.

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    ‘there are no problems unless you create them youself’

    assuming that this only makes sense on single post display,
    you could simply make a loop if there is no – try and use this where you had your line:

    <?php if(is_single()) :
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); 

the_author_meta('headerads'); 

endwhile; wp_reset_query();
endif;   ?>
Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • The topic ‘author meta tag in header’ is closed to new replies.