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1. yasiph
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   What if I want to display first name in specific posts which contain a custom field?

   I'm focusing on a child theme on twentyten amd on parent functions.php
   get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) )

   How do i get it display first name with the link to author posts?

2. Kailey ʇɹǝdɯɐl
   Volunteer Mod & Reviewer
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   try get_the_author_meta( 'first_name' , 'ID')

   of course, ID should be the actual user ID

3. yasiph
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   @trepmal How would that work?
   Changed this

   function twentyten_posted_on() {
   	printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Posted on</span> %2$s <span class="meta-sep">by</span> %3$s', 'twentyten' ),
   		'meta-prep meta-prep-author',
   		sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">%3$s</span></a>',
   			get_permalink(),
   			esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
   			get_the_date()
   		),
   		sprintf( '<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s</a></span>',
   			get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ),
   			sprintf( esc_attr__( 'View all posts by %s', 'twentyten' ), get_the_author() ),
   			get_the_author()
   		)
   	);
   }

   to

   function twentyten_posted_on() {
   	printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Posted on</span> %2$s <span class="meta-sep">by</span> %3$s', 'twentyten' ),
   		'meta-prep meta-prep-author',
   		sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">%3$s</span></a>',
   			get_permalink(),
   			esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
   			get_the_date()
   		),
   		sprintf( '<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s</a></span>',
   			get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'first_name' , 'ID' ) ),
   			sprintf( esc_attr__( 'View all posts by %s', 'twentyten' ), get_the_author() ),
   			get_the_author()
   		)
   	);
   }

   And author post url is wrong. Changes ...?author=1 to ...?author=0

4. Kailey ʇɹǝdɯɐl
   Volunteer Mod & Reviewer
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Sorry, I think I was up too late trying to answer questions... :)

   Maybe this:

   function twentyten_posted_on() {
   	printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Posted on</span> %2$s <span class="meta-sep">by</span> %3$s', 'twentyten' ),
   		'meta-prep meta-prep-author',
   		sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">%3$s</span></a>',
   			get_permalink(),
   			esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
   			get_the_date()
   		),
   		sprintf( '<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s</a></span>',
   			get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ),
   			sprintf( esc_attr__( 'View all posts by %s', 'twentyten' ), get_the_author() ),
   			get_the_author_meta('first_name')
   		)
   	);
   }

   If that doesn't work, my guess would be that the author-related functions aren't getting the author ID to work with... I might find a way to pass it the id

   function twentyten_posted_on( $id ) {
   	printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Posted on</span> %2$s <span class="meta-sep">by</span> %3$s', 'twentyten' ),
   		'meta-prep meta-prep-author',
   		sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">%3$s</span></a>',
   			get_permalink(),
   			esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
   			get_the_date()
   		),
   		sprintf( '<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s</a></span>',
   			get_author_posts_url( $id ),
   			sprintf( esc_attr__( 'View all posts by %s', 'twentyten' ), get_the_author() ),
   			get_the_author_meta('first_name', $id)
   		)
   	);
   }

   and when the function is called,
   twentyten_posted_on( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) );

5. yasiph
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Excellent! Managed to change the Nicename to first name(needed this function in multi-lingual posts) Thanks @trepmal

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