Title: Usermeta Data in the search.php loop
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Usermeta Data in the search.php loop

 *  Resolved [theApe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theape/)
 * (@theape)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usermeta-data-in-the-searchphp-loop/)
 * How do I pull in the user meta data or the author meta in the **search.php** 
   template?
 * I have this at the moment in the loop…
 *     ```
       $user = get_userdata($post->post_author);
       the_author_meta( 'first_name',$user );
       ```
   
 * But it returns nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 * This wouldn’t work either.
    `the_author_meta('first_name');`

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 *  Thread Starter [theApe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theape/)
 * (@theape)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usermeta-data-in-the-searchphp-loop/#post-4645420)
 * I’m using the search function to search custom post types if that makes any difference.
 *  Thread Starter [theApe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theape/)
 * (@theape)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usermeta-data-in-the-searchphp-loop/#post-4645435)
 * Marking this as solved as it was a stupid mistake, where I’d indexed the user
   profiles and they were being included with the search, hence the lack of user
   meta.

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