Title: Shortcode – Dear User Firstname
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Shortcode – Dear User Firstname

 *  Resolved [octoberstone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/octoberstone/)
 * (@octoberstone)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-dear-user-firstname/)
 * Hi there
    My site is for ‘Communication: A small, internal WordPress site and
   use it to alert staff of new posts or comments.’
 * I’m using the shortcode [user_firstname] at the start of the notice that should
   say, for example Dear John (the first name of the user the email is going to).
   But in all emails it pulls in the first name of the site administrator.
 * I’ve tested all the shortcodes but it’s the admin data it’s pulling in. Does 
   any of the shortcodes pull in the registered recipient user data?
 * I’ve no other plugins
    Theme: Twenty Fifteen BNW – Version 1.3.5
 * Thank you for your help
    Tony
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/bnfw/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bnfw/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Jack – BNFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voltronik/)
 * (@voltronik)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-dear-user-firstname/#post-6758655)
 * Hi Tony,
    Thanks for your message.
 * The shortcodes relating to Users as part of the new post / page notification 
   will show the details of the original post author.
 * Transactional and global shortcodes are on my roadmap but they’re a little way
   off yet.
 * Hope this helps but any other questions, please feel free to ask.
 * Thanks,
    Jack

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