code works on one site not on another | WordPress.org

Resolved birkhoff
(@birkhoff)

11 years, 8 months ago
I tried this code on one site and it worked fine, same code on another site does not work 🙁
```
<?php
$author_ID = get_query_var('author');
the_author_meta('display_name', $author_ID);
?>
```
https://wordpress.org/plugins/php-code-widget/

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Plugin Author Samuel Wood (Otto)
(@otto42)

WordPress.org Admin

11 years, 5 months ago

Code like the_author and such are Loop functions. They don’t work outside The Loop. Widgets are not in The Loop. The fact that they work on any site is just a side effect of how the theme works.

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