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1. Kevin Kwok
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Within my index.php I have a line of code that shows a summary of a post and the author's first name. I would like to display the first name and last initial.

   example: "Barack O."

   line of code I have now: echo the_author_meta('first_name');

2. Kevin Kwok
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I tried this :

   echo substr($the_author_lastname->last_name, 0, 1);

   and

   echo substr(the_author_lastname(),0,1);

   didnt do anything =(

3. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Try this..
   

   $sep = ' '; // Seperator between first name and last initial (space currently)
   $ln_init = the_author_meta('last_name');
   echo the_author_meta('first_name') . $sep . $ln_init{0};

4. Kevin Kwok
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   hm tried that it seemed to to just display the the name like this

   ObamaBarack

   thanks though.

   This is a snippet of my code :
   

   foreach($posts as $post){
       setup_postdata($post);
       childtheme_post_header();
   
   if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'full-image', $single = true))
   	echo '<img class="full-image" src="'.get_post_meta($post->ID, 'full-image', $single = true).'"/>';
   else
       echo '<img class="full-image" src="'.bloginfo('url').'" />';
       echo the_author_meta('first_name');
       echo ('&nbsp;');
       echo the_author_meta('last_name');
   }

   but my latest fix is:
   

   if(strlen($the_author_lastname->lastint) >1){
   echo substr(last_lastint(),0,1);
   }
   else{
   last_lastint();
   }

5. Kevin Kwok
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm so sure I've seen this before, I think if I am unable to figure it out maybe I can edit each profile and add a nickname to be "Barack O." and just tell wordpress to display nickname, but I hope it does not come to that.

6. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   this worked in my setup (in the normal loop):
   <?php echo $authordata->first_name.' '.substr($authordata->last_name,0,1).'.'; ?>

   alternatively, using the_author_meta() and get_the_author_meta() :
   <?php the_author_meta('first_name'); ?> <?php echo substr(get_the_author_meta('last_name'),0,1); ?>.

   (ps: might need some adjustments to keep the output nice if some of the fields are empty)

7. Kevin Kwok
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   ALCHYMYTH
   youre a genius it worked. I used your alternate method it was just missing a space and the period after the last initial so I changed it a little to this:

   <?php echo the_author_meta('first_name'); ?>
   <?php echo ('&nbsp;'); ?>
   <?php echo substr(get_the_author_meta('last_name'),0,1).'.'; ?>

   Thanks you. Thank you. Thank you.

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