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1. clarklab
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   On the post page I'm looking for a way to add an author bio for users only with the role 'contributor'

   This closest thing I've found was this and a few others posts but they were all geared towards comment authors.

   we have a few writers (admins, editors) that post all the time and on those posts we don't need the author bio so a conditional to check the role would be perfect. any ideas?

2. CallUp
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You can do something like this:

   <?php global $user_level;

   <!--get_currentuserinfo() gets the currentuser info and automatically assigns the values to some global variables, including $user_level, above-->
   get_currentuserinfo();
   if ($user_level == 1) { ?><!--user level 1 equates to 'contributor'-->
   <!--here's where you could put your bio link-->
   <?php } ?>

   Hope this helps.

3. CallUp
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Here's some links to refer to: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

4. clarklab
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   that works but it seems to check the role of the logged in user, not the author of the post.

5. clarklab
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Ah I figured it out. This works just fine:

   <?php $var = get_the_author_meta('user_level');
   if ($var == 1) {
   the_author_link();
   }?>

6. CallUp
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   How about using this:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_userdata

7. CallUp
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   OOps, I posted before I saw yours. :)

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