Title: Get user metadata
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Get user metadata

 *  Resolved [spacebom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spacebom/)
 * (@spacebom)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-user-metadata/)
 * First I think this plugin is wonderfull, thank you.
 * I am a inexperienced programmer and I am stuck trying to create a json to retrieve
   user and usermeta data. I read all the documentation even the controllers, models
   and example files.
 * I think models/author.php is close to what I want but I don’t know how to continue.
 * ¿How can I test this author.php model?, ¿how could I personalize it for my purpose?(
   retrieve user data and metadata given it one ID or email).
 * Any help is welcome. Thank you.
 * Regards.
    David.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/json-api/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/json-api/)

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 *  [joehanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joozef/)
 * (@joozef)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-user-metadata/#post-3904956)
 * Hi David,
 * Did you get an answer for this? I am interested in getting the User Meta also.
 * Thanks
    Joe
 *  Thread Starter [spacebom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spacebom/)
 * (@spacebom)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-user-metadata/#post-3904957)
 * No, but we did it. You just need to create a new controller with a function to
   get author meta data.

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 * Last reply from: [spacebom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spacebom/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-user-metadata/#post-3904957)
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