Really confused: Author vs. Co-Author

(@eklemen2)

For Co-Authors Plus, I’d really find some examples of the following very helpful:

How to get meta data from co-author vs. post author
How to get custom field data from co-author vs. post author
How to get custom field data from co-author vs. post author using Advanced Custom Fields

I’m confused how easy Co-Authors Plus should make this. Should I be able to write it one way and retrieve the same data no matter the author type? I find myself having to write it different ways what I’ve been testing:

// Guest Authors
$coauthors = get_coauthors();
foreach( $coauthors as $coauthor ){

	$guest_author_photo = get_field('guest_author_photo');
	if ( !empty($guest_author_photo) ) {
		echo '<img src="' . $guest_author_photo['url'] . '" alt="' . $guest_author_photo['alt'] . '" /><br>';
	}
	echo 'full name: ' . $coauthor->display_name . '<br>';
	echo 'title: ' . get_post_meta( $coauthor->ID, 'guest_author_title', true ) . '<br>';
	echo 'email: ' . $coauthor->user_email . '<br>';
	echo 'phone number: ' . get_post_meta( $coauthor->ID, 'guest_author_phone_number', true ) . '<br>';
	echo 'linkedin: ' . get_post_meta( $coauthor->ID, 'guest_author_linkedin', true ) . '<br>';
	echo 'twitter: ' . get_post_meta( $coauthor->ID, 'guest_author_twitter', true ) . '<br>';
	echo 'biography: ' . $coauthor->description . '<br>';

	echo('</pre>');
}

// Account Holding Authors
echo 'title: ' . get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_title' ) . '<br>';
echo 'phone number: ' . get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_phone_number' ) . '<br>';
echo 'linkedin: ' . get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_linkedin' ) . '<br>';
echo 'twitter: ' . get_the_author_meta( 'twitter' ) . '<br>';

https://wordpress.org/plugins/co-authors-plus/

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Thread Starter

Eric

(@eklemen2)

11 years, 3 months ago

P.S. What I’m trying to do is create a custom author.php page that displays the same info for post authors (account holders) as co-authors (non-account holders).

Thanks again!

Thread Starter

Eric

(@eklemen2)

11 years, 3 months ago

P.S. This is what I ended up doing to the time being. It feels dirty. Is there a better way?

// If there's a cleaner way to do this, I haven't found out how. The author data seems to be accessed differently for account-holding authors and non-account co-authors (created by co-authors plus plugin) when using custom fields (created by Advanced Custom Fields).

// Default all author values to null
$this_author_display_name = $this_author_title = $this_author_email = $this_author_phone_number = $this_author_linkedin = $this_author_twitter = $this_author_biography = null;

// Co-Authors (non custom fields also return for account-holding authors)
$coauthors = get_coauthors();
foreach( $coauthors as $coauthor ){
	$this_author_display_name = get_the_author();
	if( get_post_meta( $coauthor->ID, 'guest_author_title', true ) ){
		$this_author_title = get_post_meta( $coauthor->ID, 'guest_author_title', true );
	}
	if( $coauthor->user_email ){
		$this_author_email = $coauthor->user_email;
	}
	if( get_post_meta( $coauthor->ID, 'guest_author_phone_number', true ) ){
		$this_author_phone_number = get_post_meta( $coauthor->ID, 'guest_author_phone_number', true );
	}
	if( get_post_meta( $coauthor->ID, 'guest_author_linkedin', true ) ){
		$this_author_linkedin = get_post_meta( $coauthor->ID, 'guest_author_linkedin', true );
	}
	if( get_post_meta( $coauthor->ID, 'guest_author_twitter', true ) ){
		$this_author_twitter = get_post_meta( $coauthor->ID, 'guest_author_twitter', true );
	}
	if( $coauthor->description ){
		$this_author_biography = $coauthor->description;
	}

}

// Account Holding Authors (custom fields)
if( get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_title' ) ){
	$this_author_title = get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_title' );
}
if( get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_phone_number' ) ){
	$this_author_phone_number = get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_phone_number' );
}
if( get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_linkedin' ) ){
	$this_author_linkedin = get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_linkedin' );
}
if( get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_twitter' ) ){
	$this_author_twitter = get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_twitter' );
}

Thread Starter

Eric

(@eklemen2)

11 years, 3 months ago

Through trial and error, I discovered the foreach loop was not needed on author.php archive page. A little more streamlined than my last comment.

$this_author_display_name = get_the_author();
if( get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_title' ) ){
	// account authors
	$this_author_title = get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_title' );
} elseif( get_post_meta( $authorID, 'guest_author_title', true ) ){
	// CAP guest author
	$this_author_title = get_post_meta( $authorID, 'guest_author_title', true );
}
if( get_the_author_meta( 'email' ) ){
	$this_author_email = get_the_author_meta( 'email' );
}
if( get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_phone_number' ) ){
	// account authors
	$this_author_phone_number = get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_phone_number' );
} elseif( get_post_meta( $authorID, 'guest_author_phone_number', true ) ){
	// CAP guest authors
	$this_author_phone_number = get_post_meta( $authorID, 'guest_author_phone_number', true );
}
if( get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_linkedin' ) ){
	// account authors
	$this_author_linkedin = get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_linkedin' );
} elseif( get_post_meta( $authorID, 'guest_author_linkedin', true ) ){
	// CAP guest authors
	$this_author_linkedin = get_post_meta( $authorID, 'guest_author_linkedin', true );
}
if( get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_twitter' ) ){
	// account authors
	$this_author_twitter = get_the_author_meta( 'guest_author_twitter' );
} elseif( get_post_meta( $authorID, 'guest_author_twitter', true ) ){
	// CAP guest authors
	$this_author_twitter = get_post_meta( $authorID, 'guest_author_twitter', true );
}
if( get_the_author_meta( 'description' ) ){
	$this_author_description = get_the_author_meta( 'description' );
}

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