Title: get id inside CoAuthorsIterator
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# get id inside CoAuthorsIterator

 *  Resolved [asafche](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asafche/)
 * (@asafche)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-id-inside-coauthorsiterator/)
 *     ```
       ...
       i = new CoAuthorsIterator();
       $i->iterate();
       	the_author_posts_link();
       	if (get_user_roles(get_the_author_meta(ID)) == 'temp-author') {
       ...
       ```
   
 * the get_the_author_meta(ID) in wp debug mode says –
    otice: Use of undefined 
   constant ID – assumed ‘ID’ in /var/www/bayadaim/wp-content/themes/bayadaim/functions.
   php on line 239
 * i’m trying to figure out how to get the ID of the author.
    thanks.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/co-authors-plus/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/co-authors-plus/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/)
 * (@danielbachhuber)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-id-inside-coauthorsiterator/#post-3137477)
 * I’d recommend using get_coauthors() instead and doing a loop with that:
 *     ```
       $coauthors = get_coauthors();
       foreach( $coauthors as $coauthor )
       echo $coauthor->display_name;
       ```
   

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

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 * Last reply from: [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-id-inside-coauthorsiterator/#post-3137477)
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