Print the Value of a User Field Type By get_post_meta()

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  • shahriar

  • August 11, 2017 at 10:59 pm

  Hi,

  I have a situation where I need to get the value for a User Field type by get_post_meta() function. But when I used thisprint_r ( get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'author_name', false ) ); it just returned the ID like this Array ( [0] => 26 ) but I need to get the email/username etc. How could I get it?

  Thanks.
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  • John Huebner

  • August 12, 2017 at 10:30 am

  ACF stores and array of ID values for user field and does the work of getting all the user information when you use get_field(). If you need to use get_post_meta() then you’ll need to do all that additional work yourself. See https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_userdata
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  • shahriar

  • August 12, 2017 at 4:56 pm

  Thank you John, it’s solved.

  For anyone who is into a same situation. The below code did the work.

  
  $user_id = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'author_name', true );
  $user_info = get_userdata($user_id);
  echo 'Email: ' . $user_info->user_email;