Custom field not appearing in author.php

• s95g

• August 27, 2015 at 5:04 am

Hey!

Wondering if anyone could shed any light as to why none of the fields are showing on the author.php page when I try and call them as I conventionally would using

<?php the_field('profile_image');?>

Would really appreciate any thoughts.

Thanks

• John Huebner

• August 27, 2015 at 6:56 am

You need to supply the author ID in the format 'user_'.$author_id

$user_id = get_the_author_meta('ID');
the_field('profile_image', 'user_'.$user_id);

for more information http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/how-to-get-values-from-a-user/

• s95g

• August 27, 2015 at 7:10 am

Worked perfectly – thanks!

• s95g

• August 27, 2015 at 7:42 am

Thanks for that – it only seems to work for authors that have a post attributed. Do you know at all how to have them display for all authors regardless of having published posts?

Thanks again in advance!

• John Huebner

• August 27, 2015 at 7:53 am

This is an author.php page that I created for a site that uses an ACF image field and defaults to something else if an image has not been uploaded. It works for me whether or not the user has any published posts.

<?php
  /*
    The template for displaying Author Archive pages
  */

  get_header();
  $has_banner = apply_filters('ssi_page_has_banner', true);
  do_action('ssi_page_banner');
  ?>
    <div id="content-wrapper">
      <div class="wrapper-inner">
        <div id="content" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" class="right-sidebar">
          <div class="inner">
            <?php 
              $user_id = get_the_author_meta('ID');
              $user_image = false;
              if (function_exists('get_field')) {
                $attachment_id = get_field('user_options_author_photo', 'user_'.$user_id);
                if ($attachment_id) {
                  $user_image = wp_get_attachment_image_src($attachment_id, 'author-photo');
                }
              } // end if function
              if ($user_image) {
                $user_image = '<img src="'.$user_image[0].'" width="'.
                              $user_image[1].'" height="'.$user_image[2].
                              '" alt="'.$user_name.'" />';
              }
              if (!$user_image) {
                $user_name = get_the_author();
                $user_email = get_the_author_meta('user_email');
                $user_image = get_avatar($user_email, 300, NULL, $user_name);
              }
            ?>
            <div class="author-info">
              <div class="author-image" itemprop="image">
                <?php echo $user_image; ?>
              </div>
              <div class="author-description" itemprop="description">
                <h1 itemprop="name"><?php echo get_the_author(); ?></h1>
                <?php 
                  $description = false;
                  if (function_exists('get_field')) {
                    $description = get_field('user_options_detailed_bio', 'user_'.$user_id);
                  } // end if function
                  if (!$description) {
                    $description = get_the_author_meta('description');
                  }
                ?>
                <p itemprop="description"><?php echo $description; ?></p>
              </div>
              <div class="clearfix"></div>
              <hr />
            </div>
            <?php 
              if (have_posts()) {
                get_template_part('template-parts/block', 'article-archive');
              } else {
                // no posts
                ?>
                  <p>No results were found.</p>
                <?php 
              }
            ?>
          </div>
        </div>
        <div id="sidebar-after-content">
          <div class="inner">
            <?php get_sidebar('blog'); ?>
          </div>
        </div>
        <div class="clearfix"></div>
      </div>
    </div>
  <?php 
  get_footer();

?>