Get value from User ID to Display Name?

• Denis

• March 28, 2019 at 4:25 pm

Hi all,

I have used ACF for create new fields name: “Author”, “Source”, and “Editor”:

I picked fields in post editor:

And this code to show them:

<?php
$author = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'author', true);
if ($author) { ?>
Author: <? echo $author; ?><br />
<?php
} else {
// do nothing;
}
?>
<?php
$source = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'source', true);
if ($source) { ?>
Source: <? echo $source; ?><br />
<?php
} else {
// do nothing;
}
?>
<?php
$editor = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'editor', true);
if ($editor) { ?>
Editor: <? echo $editor; ?><br />
<?php
} else {
// do nothing;
}
?>

But when they show on post, just user ID, look like this:

How can I get the User Display Name for that ID?
Please help me!

Thanks all.

• John Huebner

• March 28, 2019 at 10:59 pm

You’re using get_post_meta() instead on get_field(). ACF only stores the user ID, so this is what will be returned by get_post_meta(). If you use get_field() ACF will return a user object, array, or ID depending on your field settings. In either case you need to get the user object and show the parts of it you want. https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_userdata

• Denis

• March 29, 2019 at 1:51 am

I fixed it done. Thanks Mr. Huebner so much 👍