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Hi this is exactly what im looking for. Im building a modification of WordPress 1.5. But i have problems on how to get the ID of the user logged in. Is it stored in a cookie or a global variable? I want to build a custom profile for the users on my blog. And therefore i must list all the user information in the fields. Any suggestions? //Carlos

It’s available through the get_currentuserinfo() function. Just running this provides a number of global variables:

$userdata
$user_level
$user_ID
$user_nickname
$user_email
$user_url
$user_pass_md5

Just wanted to know if this work with version 1.5?

Ok…it seems to be working for WP1.5;

Anyway, what if I am posting and wish to create a link to show a profile page of another user? For example:
Kafkaesqu� �has a get author profile plugin…

hans, WordPress can auto-generate a link to all posts of any author (on your blog):

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author_posts_link

Also, you can pretty easily set up a profile of each author in 1.5 by creating an author.php template for your theme, and either setting up a bit of php with my plugin at the top of that page before the posts, or through this method:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=27554#post-154787

Is there any way to get the auth_ID from the incoming link? For example when sombody clicks on an author link – it takes them to the archives.php page – and the title of the page is “author archives” – however i want it to have the actual name of the author in the title of the page. Thanks

Rob, just follow the WordPress support forums link above your comment. I lay out there how to assign the user ID based on the author query (don’t even need my plugin for it).

i can not get a pro file enny where ellls

Hi, I cannot use your plugin because of the following reason (I’m new to WordPress):

First of all, I didn’t understand how to get an author’s name outside the Loop for ex. First, I install and run the plugin and after I create a php file and put this code in it:

This is for the author with the ID 10, right?

Sorry if I’m getting all these wrong, but that’s what I tried to do. After getting the author’s name, I’ll need his e-mail, his posts (with links) and his description. Can you help me on how to setting all these clearly? Because I didn’t understand well how to make work this plugin.

Thanks a lot.

The code didn’t show up, here it’s:

Once again, sorry :)

<?php get_author_profile(auth_10); ?>

Tim, as long as you meant 10 when you wrote auth_10, then it will initialize the plugin’s variables/functions to display profile information for that author (ID: 10). See the example above for how to display the various author info.

If you’re looking for a comprehensive way to display authors’ profile info with their posts, in WordPress 1.5 you can create an author template (author.php) in your active theme, along with the following code (instead of my plugin):

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/27554#post-154787

Or you can use a combination of plugin and template. Depends on how you want to arrange the information.

Hello Kafkaesquí, thank you for your inredible help on the forums with author templates. I used the bulk of it to make a new page in the codex. I credited you for it when I linked to your plug in.

But… I’m unclear about something– the use of the author data on other archive templates. I’ve never done it, but I guess it should be included in the documentation. Rather than paste the draft documentation here, would you mind to look in the codex and just say whether or not this is accurate?

In Codex: Including_Author_data_on_other_templates

Thanks very much.

Brilliant. Thank you so much. Though I was able to hack around it, including the author’s rss feed woulda been an extra bonus.

I’m trying to set up a group blog for my roommates, and I want to put their profiles in the side bar. My current code looks like this:


<?php get_author_profile(auth_3); ?>
<div class="profile">
<ul>
<li id="myprofile">Name:
<ul>
<li><?php echo $author_firstname . " " . $author_lastname; ?></li>
<li>Email: <?php echo $author_email; ?></li>
<li>AIM: <?php echo $author_aim; ?></li>
<li>Notes: <?php echo $author_profile; ?></li>
</ul>


And no information comes up if you look at the sidebar at http://chickenrap.wirepipe.net. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

I am trying to get my icq and msn number to dispaly in my template. I thought that this plugin would do that but it is not. Is this for the admin or just the visitors to my site.

ps I have all of the variables n my template

Im currently building a blog for me and my friends. At the topp I’ve got Links to the blog, the gallery, Contact and profiles. When clicking the profile link I want to list All the users with their data. I’ve tried with this plugin, but it didnt work. Can’t i just make a author.php file and have for eksample :

I am looking to just provide a link to the users profile. Any ideas? Also, is there a way to make the author’s name a link to their profile?

It seems, that Get Author Profile doesn’t work with WordPress 2 :(
I think it’s because of the new structure of the database.

“I think it’s because of the new structure of the database.”

Yep. I’m currently rethinking how the plugin should work because of the new usermeta table, etc.

Thank you.
I hope there will be a new version soon.

Oh good, I’m glad it’s not just me seeing that problem, LOL. Looking forward to a new version, fix, or what-have-you. :)

(I’m pretty pleased so far that this is my only real “snag” since upgrading this morning!)

Just a comment note that Get Author Profile should now work in 2.0. Sorry ’bout the delay everyone. Just blame it on another plugin…

I posted your example code listed on this page after “The display (second) parameter” in the sidebar.php and it worked but of course it put author id 1 info on every author page. I tried using “< ?php get_author_profile(); ?>” (sans quotes) and it produced an error.

What am I doing wrong?

Sandra, you did nothing wrong. Well, other than run into a bug, which is not your fault. Grab the latest version of the plugin (0.5.1), which fixes it.

Useful plug-in–I appreciate it as it saves me from the tedium of having to do this myself.
One quick question: Is there any reason it doesn’t provide a variable such as $author_registered? I needed this, so I just added it myself no problem. I just wondered if there was a good reason that it weren’t already there.

Sorry if I am being redundant here, but how can I display current user information (other than dropping the code into the theme’s author.php.) I don’t want to put in a specific user ID. I just want it to display who is logged in. Thanx much. YOUR PLUGIN ROCKS MY FACE OFF!

Sorry about the question (as it was already kind of discussed). I was just looking for an example more or less. If anybody else is wondering on the get user level script, an example is at: http://codex.wordpress.org/get_currentuserinfo

That’s cool – does all the long stuff I’d written for 1.5 much quicker. Question: how would you call info for all authors on the blog in order to be able to provide a group page?

When I activate the plug in, my wp-login.php page won’t render. As soon as I deactivate it, the page displays again. HELP! I really want to use this plug in.

BTW, I am using WP 1.5.2

how do i grab the author ID if I wanted to display that? I’m setting up a staff page for my site using this plugin and want to display the user’s ID number, so the get_currentuserinfo command won’t work.

hello? i’d really like some help on this.

Andrea, I think I sent you an email on this. Let me know if you never received it.

Brendan, it would help to know *how* and *when* you need the user ID. If this staff Page (which I’m assuming is a Page in WP’s framework) will list all users, see my All Author’s Page template, found here:

For WordPress 1.5:
http://guff.szub.net/source/page-authors.php

For WordPress 2.0:
http://guff.szub.net/source/page-authors-2.0.php

For info on Page templates:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates

If this is *not* what you’re attempting to do, it’s helpful if you provide some details.

Been trying to make registered users comments link to their profile, I see that Brian asked this question some time ago. Well, I found your comment over at WordPress, Trouble with post_link….

Now I’ve got it working in the sidebar, but only for a static auth_ID. I know next-to-nothing about PHP, and so far have this much:

<?php get_author_profile(); ?> <a href="<?php author_profile('posts_link'); ?>"><?php author_profile('nickname'); ?></a>


Any help is much appreciated.

Chris, within the comment loop you should be able to use $comment->user_id for the user ID of the current commenter. On comments from those who are not registered (or not logged in when commenting) it returns null or 0, so you may want to test on it first before using it with get_author_profile() like so:

<?php get_author_profile($comment->user_id); ?>

Kaf,
Great plugin, I’ve been using it for a while now. I just noticed that upgrading to 2.0 seems to have killed the posts_link function I had called on my about page.
The link that the posts_link call generates looks like /author/someone/ when I hover over it, but clicking on it leads to /author/ – and that’s a 404 page.
I’ve left it up for the moment at http://www.tylerwillis.com/about/ – you can see it being used in the staff table.
I’m not sure what happened, why it stopped working. If you have any thoughts, I’d appreciate them.
Tyler

Hi,

simple questions:
where do I put this file (for wp 2.0) ? in which folder?
I cant seem to find the answer

do I need to modify it ?

Hi,

I just upgraded to WP2.0.2 from 1.5.2, and I can’t seem to use html to make some parts of my profile italicized or underlined. Is this something in the plugin that I’m forgetting to enable?

I’m using a WordPress 2.0 template called Alexified to run a multi-user blog. http://www.digitalchalkie.com/

I’d like readers to be able to click on a post authors name and be taken to an “archives/author/User” page.

The K2 template does this automatically eg. http://www.paraburdoo.det.wa.edu.au/

Any suggestions much appreciated.

Paul

Is there some way to use a link to pass the page (author.php) and the author_ID (author=51) and get the profile info for that user? It seems like everything has to either be all authors or hard-codes the author id…
I’d be happy to do this with a category template (I want posts, too) or the author.php file. Right now, I can call a custom category template and pass a specific author_ID (author=#) and get posts for only that author to display.
Now, how can I use the passed value for author_ID to retrieve that author’s profile data?

Hey Kaf.. I love the page-authors.php!! Solved all my problems.. I was using the “User Bio Popup” by Aleister but that kept on breaking so that all letter G (capital) brought up a user (same one everytime). I have one question though! Any clue how I can replace the get_author_image with the users gravatar instead. I’m using the “Gravatars2″ plugin (by Kip Bond) which caches gravatars for my site?

Tx again Guru!!!

Thanks for Your all-author-template. It works very well as You can see in modifications on Autoren Wirtschaftsbrief.

I want use Your sensefull if-rules an the template author.php too.
How must be the beginning? Because foreach… isn’t, because there’s no loop (only fpr articles of the aithor by WP).
Thanks a lot.

Thanks for the plugin, it was a great solution for the new site I’m building. It was a good way to make an “About the Author” box for entries in a multi-author site. Since it pulls the info right out of their user profile that saves a lot of time!

I am trying to put te nickname of the currently displayed author page into a php-enabled widget. I tried the get-author-profile plugin and also some stuff like:

If the above fails to work for you, another option for WordPress 1.5 or above is the following:

get_queried_object();
?>

But no joy! How do I put the author page nickname into a widget / template if it is outlide of the loop?

Answering my own question :)

nickname; ?>’s

hello,

I am curios if someone could point me to a small howto or give me some indications on how to achieve the following:

I want to modify my sidebar accordingly to what is being displayed. I.e. if someone is reading a post the sidebar should display some small info about the author of that particular post, like username, nickname, some details that the author ca fill in in his profile.
If someone is reading a page or just browsing through a category, I do not want this info displayed.

how would I go ahead to achieve this?

hey Kaf:

great plugin. thanks alot. i’m using the allauthors.php page, and i’d like to use html in the author description. have tried a few different was but can seem to make it work. current, i have the following:


description)
Tests for and displays user description (i.e. Profile).
*/
?>
description) : ?>
description; ?>

Is there any way I can tweak that to make it display HTML.

Thanks – Michael

UPDATE: Figured it out. I’m using this and it works:

description); ?>

Thanks again – Michael

Kaf,
Thanks for a great plugin! Is there a way to use this plugin to display info on every “Author” in the db without having to have an entry for each user id?

Thanks!

thx a lot for the author plugin. we use it at our blog at university and it is very useful to create different student / semester profiles.

Hi, I’ve just installed your plugin and found it very useful.
I am sorry to be so much of a trouble, but as Phej above suggested, is there any possible way to loop the thing for all authors?
I tried combining it w your All Page Authors template (http://guff.szub.net/source/page-authors-2.0.php) but as I know hardly any PHP, it didnt work.
Thankyou very much for your help.

This plug is a great idea!

I would like to display the author’s profile in the sidebar on that author’s posts only. So, if the current post is written by author “Steve” who’s id = 4, then post his profile in the sidebar.

The problem I am having is how to read the author’s ID. WordPress would need to find the author’s ID of the current post and display the correct profile – I need this because there are multiple authors.

This is separate from a author.php page. I tried this but it doesn’t work (I realized the brackets are wrong, I did it so the code wouldn’t render):

[?php if(is_single()) { ?]
[li class="sidebox"]
[?php get_author_profile(); ?]
[h2]Author Info:[/h2]
[ul]
[li][?php author_profile(); ?][/li]
[li][?php author_profile('profile'); ?][/li]
[/ul]
[/li]
[?php } ?]

Here is little better description of the problem:

I would like to display the author’s profile in the sidebar on that author’s posts only. So, if the current post is written by author “Steve” who’s id = 4, then post his profile in the sidebar.

The problem I am having is how to read the author’s ID - without having the pass it manually. WordPress would need to find the author’s ID of the current post and display the correct profile – I need this because there are multiple authors and I want that author’s info on their posts.

there seems to be a problem with the new wordpress version (security update 2.07)… i disabled the plugin and now nothing… any idea?

Wow, I’m almost there! Thanks for your plugin, it’s fantastic. I’m trying to get even more data from users because I’ve set up the “userextra” (usermeta) plugin (http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/Userextra). I’m not a programmer by any means, but I was hoping something like, instead of “$user->icq” I could use “$userextra->address_street” for example (having already set up a field called Street Address (address_street). Do you think this could work?

OK, it’s late, I’m tired, but I wanted to ask. Thanks for all of your plugins. I’ve been using WP for a few years now and I remember your site from a few years ago thanks to your The Excerpt Reloaded plugin. Thanks–and best regards, — Bradley

Got it! I knew it would be one of those late-night expeditions into the depths of forums and files! Thanks to your file and this forum post, I got it working! I can now pull any custom field I want into a viewable list! Thank you for the file and your work here. Best, Bradley

Hi Kaf, sounds like a great plugin. Had some hassle with plugins the past week, causing real havoc in the WP database. So if you don’t mind me asking: has anyone tested ‘get author profile’ with WP2.1?
Thanks

404 author page solution:
function wp_404_author_error_filter_posts_where(&$where) {
if((0 == count($wp_query->posts)) && (is_author() || is_category())) {
global $wp;
$wp->did_permalink=false; // Allows zero results without -> 404
}
return $where;
}
add_filter(‘posts_where’, ‘wp_404_author_error_filter_posts_where’,11);

Could someone spell this out for those of us who are not as WordPress savvy? I’ve installed the usermeta and userextra and I just want to know how to make the fields display on the author pages. If someone could just give me a simple step by step or even just copy and paste their code with “PUT YOUR FIELD NAME” here and so on that would be fabulous.

Thanks for the great Plugin an the page-Template. It works fine! I like to add the function (show the local user-avatar) form the identitikit-plugin (http://www.john-noone.com/2007/03/14/le-bout-du-tunnel/). Can you help me – i try a lot of thinks but it doesnt work.

Thank you for your time and work!
Greetings.
Markus

The page-authors-2.0.php sounds like exactly the thing I’ve been looking on. Only, I have no idea how to use it. I uploaded into my theme folder, but it doesn’t show as an available template (just default, links and archives). What am I missing here? Thanks!

Ahh, I got it. It just wanted the template tag closed off.

Any suggestions on how I can get it to change the layout? I’d like them to show maybe three across before going down to the next line. That would make the layout a little neater.

Hi, sorry to bother. I’m finding the explanation of how to actually use the All Authors Template extremely confusing/illusive. I just want to be able to click a link and have this page open, and display a list of authors with other bits of information. I’ve read all of the above comments, as well as the link you provided to the Wordpres Codex. I can see from the code of this page that this is exactly what this page is supposed to do, however I have no idea how to execute it. If I link to the file directly, I just get about a thousand php errors. I already have the ability to view a single authors profile, i just want this to loop for all the authors (who arent admin). Please help before my mind implodes.

http://www.holmbushrecords.com/test.html

This is the site im working on (for a uni project due very soon), the “artists” link is what i want this script for.

WordPress version 2.0

Thankyou

I too am having trouble with this. I can get this plugin to work by setting it to a specific user, but I can’t figure out how to make it so that it will show the name based on whether or not someone is logged in or not. For example, if I am logged in and I go to my site, it’ll show my name. If you are logged in it will show your name and info. But if you visit and aren’t logged in, then it would show no info… I have tried everything I can find and nothing works, I even made an author.php page…

Thanks in advance

What is going on with your plugins? Why are there break tags in front of everything? It is great that you write good plugins, but copying the damn code line by line sucks!!!!!!!!!! ^M
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Hello Kaf, evendough I couldn’t make it work, thanks already for your pluggin.

I put your get_author_profile() tag inside The Post DIV in my Idex.php:

[?php if (have_posts()) : ?][?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?]
[div class="post"]
[h2][a href="[?php the_permalink() ?]” rel=”bookmark” title=”[?php the_title(); ?]“][?php the_title(); ?][/a][/h2]

[div class="contenttext"]
[?php the_content('Read more »'); ?]
[p class="postinfo"][?php if(function_exists('cmd_show_avatar')){ cmd_show_avatar(); } ?][strong]Posted by: [/strong][a href="get_author_profile()"][?php the_author_firstname()?][/a][strong] On: [/strong][?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?][br /] under [?php the_category(', ') ?].[br /]
[?php akst_share_link(); ?] | [a href="[?php comments_link(); ?]“][strong]Comments:[/strong] [?php comments_number('none','1','%'); ?][/a]
[?php edit_post_link('Edit this post',' | ',''); ?][/p]
[/div]

when someone clicks on the Post author name link, the browser searches for: http://www.lets-evo.net/skateboard/get_author_profile()

I have created a author.php that looks like the following and i have put it inside my theme’s folder.Maybe it should be somewhereelse

[?php
/*
Template Name: Author profile
*/
?]

[?php get_header(); ?]

[div id="contentwide"]

[?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?]

[?php list_subpages_andreas01(); ?] [?php // This generates the subpage menu. If you don't want to use it, delete this line. ?]

[div class="post"]

[h2][?php the_title(); ?][/h2]

[?php the_content('[p class="serif"]Read more »[/p]‘); ?]

[?php link_pages('[p][strong]Pages:[/strong] ‘, ‘[/p]‘, ‘number’); ?]

[?php get_author_profile(); ?]
[div class="profile"]
[ul]
[li id="myprofile"]Blog Owner:
[ul]
[li][?php author_profile('firstname'); ?] [?php author_profile('lastname'); ?][/li]
[li]Jabber: [?php author_profile('jabber'); ?][/li]
[li]AIM: [?php author_profile('aim'); ?][/li]
[li]Notes: [?php author_profile('profile'); ?][/li]
[/ul]
[/li]
[/ul]
[/div]

[?php edit_post_link('Edit this page','[p]‘,’[/p]‘); ?]

[?php endwhile; endif; ?]

[/div]

[/div]

[?php get_footer(); ?]

I would really apreciate if you could give me some of your advice on getting it right

…Just one thing…I sad that my site is Multiple user blog, but it is not a MU WordPress…It is just a normal blog where I set up more than one Author.

Ok, I’m trying to set this up on my blog because it appears from the description to be what I need. The problem is that I don’t see any instructions for use anywhere in this post. How do I make this plugin work?

Is there any way of getting the date the user joined from this? I’ve tried adding it in to the plugin myself with no success :(

Exactly what I was looking for… Thanks for this plugin – works perfect!

Hello all,

Does anyone know how to display a profile for a user that hasn’t posted? I have it all working very nicely for a user that has posted. They get a pretty url like /author/site_user/ however if they haven’t posted their is no link (just their name) and I have to manually access their profile using /?author=ID any help would be much appreciated.

Regards.

For a very long time, I was looking for exact this information.
Thank you for this plugin…..

Kind regards
Holger.

How can I have a user update their profile within my sites template, rather then having it go through the WordPress Template?

Chet

This is probably the dumbest question you have ever had.

How do I save the file? I have two authors and want seperate pages for them. I am a newbie.

Also I am using wordpress 2.31

Just dropping by to say thanks :) just what i needed.

Thank you for this plugin bot WP2.5.1???

Can i get the comment author login name?

I’ve been using this plug-in for a long time on multiple blogs and love it, but do have one question…

Occasionally an author will make his file very long, and while standard HTML seems to work for links, I can’t for the life of me figure out how to force linebreaks.

I found a reference on Lorelles blog claiming this –
>>>
Make sure the line breaks are single space and the paragraphs have two spaces. To “force” a line break you can use but only in that format
>>>

But that doesn’t seem to do it either. Do you have any idea how to force a manual line break in the author bio?

I have this same problem! Have searched the web for plugins or anything to make it possible to have paragraphs or at least line-breaks in the profile text on the author page, but I can’t get it to work. Why doesn’t it just support html :(
That claim you wrote doesn’t work for me either.

Sorry I’m of no help, but if anyone else knows anything.. paragraphs in author profiles in wordpress…
It would be really helpful!

@Rose & Scott Hendison
I have also been searching for a solution to include page breaks into author bio text, I managed a basic way of doing this using php’s ‘str_replace’ function: (Scott, your post about two spaces helped me to figure this…)

In your author bio, include two spaces where you want the page break to occur, then replace <?php echo $curauth->description; ?> with <?php echo str_replace(‘ ‘,”, $curauth->description); ?> – make sure to include two spaces in the first parameter of str_replace.

This will replace any two spaces in your author bio with a line break. (change ” to ” if you would rather use paragraph tags). You could also use this technique for including other basic formatting, such as or tags, just choose a unique symbol or html entity in your bio text, then use str_replace to change that symbol into the html tag of your choice.

Hope this helps!

Rose and Scott: Weasel’s HTML Bios Plugin will allow you to put line breaks or whatever other HTML you want to use in your user profiles.

Everyone: Just tested Get Author Profile on WP 2.5.1, works great.

Thanks for all the help here. I have successfully created a list of authors in my sidebar with links to their respective author pages. They all work correctly, except for the user who is admin. The admin does appear in the list of authors, but when I follow the link, I get a ‘Error 404 – Not Found’. I know I’ve included the admin because the name is in the list of authors with a link, just nothing on the subsequent page.

Any clues?

How can I write post author ID outside the loop on wordpress 2.7?

Oh! Thank you guys!!!!! David & Kenley!
Going to try this out :)

Does this work for WP 2.7?

Works with WP 2.7.1

Just checked.

hi

i want to do the following: if the page title IS found as username THEN get AuthorID and set it to $id.

i’m very new to php and until now i’m not able to manage it.

tia

ari

will that work in WordPress 2.7?

following up on Saman Sadeghi’s question:

in a single page view, how do we get the author ID of the author of the current post in a dynamic way?

basically what brought me here was that i wanted to display author profile information in a single page outside of the loop.

Exactly, I need to do this to.

Why can’t we “Get Author ID of the author of the current post” outside of THE LOOP?

how do i get the current author, especially on a single post page, instead of specifying a particular author?

Hi,

I’m looking for something that would allow me to show a limited (10 or so) random author avatars of my multi author blog in my side bar widget. Is this possible with your plugin and how?

Thanks!

Phil

yeah i dont understand why wordpress doesn’t have this already, im going to throw myself off a bridge

Here is the method that allows you getting the author ID of the current post outside the loop.

http://www.dbuggr.com/milly/obtain-author-id-author-profile-wordpress-loop/

This does not work on wordpress 3.2 .what can i do?
please give suggeation.

We do a bunch of articles from different authors and I’,m wanting only certain authors to come up on specific pages. I stumbled upon this attempting to refine my author content based on conditional terms? Is this now redundant given the new plug ins for wordpress? Or should I be pursing this?

Thanks for the guidance, would appreciate some direction either way.

Gwen
http://waterfiltersystem.co/ – Water Filter Systems Victoria BC Canada

Gwen,

I did a quick search on http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=get+author+profile&sort= and it did not bring up any info on this Get Author Profile plugin.

What’s more the plugins on that page are mostly outdated and haven’t been updated since 2008 – 2009. With the current version of WordPress being 3.1.3 you may not need a plugin to handle author bio displays. Even if you do you would want something built and updated to the latest version of wordpress. Hope that helps.