Title: Display user meta in PHP
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Display user meta in PHP

 *  Resolved [SiKth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sikth/)
 * (@sikth)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-user-meta-in-php/)
 * Hi!
    I’ve created a custom user meta field, or WYSIWYG-field, named “info”. I
   want to display this in the author page, with PHP. Please, point out the direction
   to where i can find this code?
 * //Fredrik
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Scott Kingsley Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sc0ttkclark/)
 * (@sc0ttkclark)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-user-meta-in-php/#post-4250511)
 * Try get_user_meta using [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_author_meta](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_author_meta)
   to get the ID
 * `echo get_user_meta( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ), 'info', true );`
 * Alternatively, we also have a function in Pods available which handles most display-
   related functionality.
 * [http://pods.io/docs/code/pods/display/](http://pods.io/docs/code/pods/display/)
 * Or if you only just need that one field, this could be handy:
 * [http://pods.io/docs/code/field-functions/pods-field-display/](http://pods.io/docs/code/field-functions/pods-field-display/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Josh Pollock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shelob9/)
 * (@shelob9)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-user-meta-in-php/#post-4250579)
 * You may also want to check out a tutorial series I wrote about using Pods to 
   create a user directory. It shows various ways to integrate fields from user 
   meta into a theme.
 * [http://pods.io/tutorials/using-pods-create-user-directory/](http://pods.io/tutorials/using-pods-create-user-directory/)
 *  Thread Starter [SiKth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sikth/)
 * (@sikth)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-user-meta-in-php/#post-4250591)
 * Thank you! Works great!

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