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1. Puanthanh
   Member
   Posted 2 years 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.

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

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

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

3. Puanthanh
   Member
   Posted 2 years 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.

4. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 2 years 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;   ?>

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