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1. barrybell
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Hi, I need to return the author_ID into the php code, not echo it. Is there a simple way to do this, as I can only get an echo with the *php the_author_ID();* tag.

   Thanks

2. Alex Mills (Viper007Bond)
   Moderator
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Try get_author_ID. There's get_ versions of most of the functions.

   If that's not a valid function, just do $post->author_ID or whatever the column name is.

3. rrho
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   this should work:

   $author_id = $post->post_author;

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