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1. RenFromPenn
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I am trying to display different information in my sidebar depending on which authors single post is being displayed. I have run into trouble, however, since the sidebar is outside the loop. How can I retrieve the author ID in this scenario?

   Here is the code that I was trying to use until I realized that it was outside the loop.

   $post_id = $post->ID;
   $post_author = get_post($post_id);
   $author = $post_author->post_author;
   if ($author == "2"){
   echo '1234';
   } elseif ($author == "3"){
   echo 'QQQQ';
   } else {
   echo 'abcd';
   }

2. equaldesign
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Can't you have your sidebar in the loop? It is in the default theme and in many of my themes.

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