With help from esmi, I modified the above code to use get_the_author_meta instead of the_author_meta
That now inserts the variable as the username, and eliminated the error I was getting, but unfortunately it still does not display the twitter messages. Now I get “no public Twitter messages” even though there are plenty of public messages (tweets) that could/should be displayed…..
So I’ve made enormous progress, just not all the way fixed yet….
I know there is another similar thread about this but that seems to be for individuals just trying to get it to work…..my problem is a little different.
I need it to work for multiple authors, and display the twitter stream for the author whose page is currently being viewed…..
I’ve tried using a variable to supply the twitter username (and also per a suggestion in the other thread, the actual number of the twitter user’s RSS feed) but it doesn’t work.
If i put the variable in the page template, I get “RSS not configured”…..
If I try to put the variable into the plugin code itself (using get_author_meta), it bombs because it doesn’t know the WP core functions…….
SO how do I tell it to include the path to the WP core functions so it will recognize something basic like get_author_meta() ??
I use the CIMY Extra Field Values plugin and add a field Twitter ID to the user profile. Then this code:
<?php $twitter_id = get_cimyFieldValue(2, 'TWITTER-ID'); twitter_messages($twitter_id, 1, false, false, '#', true, true, false); ?>
My site is setup in a way where I can manually specificy the user ID (e.g. 2) but there are ways around that.
Hi Joshkadis
That is very similar to what I’m doing – I’m using a plugin that adds a field to the author meta called “Twitter” which is where you put in the twitter account name. It’s called Twitter User:
http://www.bloggingtips.com/wordpress-plugins/twitter-user/
So I tried something along the lines of what you did, but without the user ID (e.g. 2 from your example), because that is dynamic to whatever author’s page is being viewed…..instead I used code I got from the Codex page on the_author_meta()
<?php if(isset($_GET['author_name'])) :
$curauth = get_userdatabylogin(get_the_author_login());
else :
$curauth = get_userdata(intval($author));
endif;
$twitter = $curauth->twitter;
twitter_messages($twitter, 1, false, false, '#', true, true, false); ?>?>
But it doesn’t seem to work….if I put this in my template file (sidebar.php) where I want it, I get one of two error messages:
– If I use the RSS feed # for the user as suggested in a different thread in this forum, I get “RSS not configured”
– If I use the twitter account name for the user, I get “no public twitter messages”
If I put that code in the actual plugin, it bombs with a PHP error because it doesn’t understand core WP functions.
So I don’t know what else to try at this point……
Any help would be much appreciated!
UPDATE: SUCCESS!!
Joshkadis you helped more than you know!
I looked more closely at what you are doing and noticed that in the twitter_messages function you did NOT use quotes around the twitter username variable you are using…
Since I was trying to follow the instructions in the plugin, I DID have quotes around the variable name – I removed those and now it works! Perfectly!
THANK you very much!
