Title: Custom Author Meta?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Custom Author Meta?

 *  Resolved [Bradymac2222](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bradymac2222/)
 * (@bradymac2222)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-author-meta/)
 * There doesn’t seem to be a shortcode to display custom meta for the author in
   the post list. Am I missing something or is there another way to do this? That’s
   the only thing I am missing from this plugin. Otherwise it is great!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/w4-post-list/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w4-post-list/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Shazzad Hossain Khan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sajib1223/)
 * (@sajib1223)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-author-meta/#post-5285302)
 * Yeah, there isn’t a shortcode yet for showing post author field :(. But i will
   add it tomorrow or today and release an Update 🙂 Thanks for d recommendation.
 *  Thread Starter [Bradymac2222](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bradymac2222/)
 * (@bradymac2222)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-author-meta/#post-5285307)
 * That would be great! I’ll be sure to leave a positive review when you do.
 *  Plugin Author [Shazzad Hossain Khan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sajib1223/)
 * (@sajib1223)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-author-meta/#post-5285309)
 * Updates Available – 1.8.8 🙂 Use the new shortcode – `[post_author_meta name="
   first_name"]` to display post author meta information.
 *  Thread Starter [Bradymac2222](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bradymac2222/)
 * (@bradymac2222)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-author-meta/#post-5285322)
 * Awesome! That worked perfectly and I left a 5 star review.
 * One other request – a frontend posting plugin I am using is returning the uploaded
   media attachment id instead of a url. Is there a way to display that attachment
   in W4PL using the attachment id meta?
 *  Plugin Author [Shazzad Hossain Khan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sajib1223/)
 * (@sajib1223)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-author-meta/#post-5285325)
 * Cool. Did you tried – `[attachment_thumbnail id="[post_meta key='meta_name']"]`?
   I am not sure if this would work 🙁 Let me know if that works.
 *  Thread Starter [Bradymac2222](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bradymac2222/)
 * (@bradymac2222)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-author-meta/#post-5285327)
 * Yeah I did. It would just output “]
 *  Plugin Author [Shazzad Hossain Khan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sajib1223/)
 * (@sajib1223)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-author-meta/#post-5285376)
 * New release available. Use shortcode – `[attachment_thumbnail meta_key='attachment_id']`.
   Thanks.

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## Tags

 * [author](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/author/)
 * [custom](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom/)
 * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/)

 * 7 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Shazzad Hossain Khan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sajib1223/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-author-meta/#post-5285376)
 * Status: resolved