Get author posts link from user field

• mtm

• January 28, 2022 at 10:11 am

I have a user field which I need to be set to return an array. It is also set to multiple=false.

I need to display a link via the page template structured as follows:

<a href="[author posts archive for user]">[user display_name]</a>

I have found it very hard to get the posts link in any way other than by setting the field to return the user ID and hard-coding the link structure like this:

<?php 
$user_id = get_field('user');
if( $user_id ): ?>
  <a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url($user_id); ?>">[can't fetch display_name from ID]</a>
<?php endif; ?>

But this does not allow me to fetch the other data I need.

How can I set this up so that I can fetch the author_posts_url AND the display_name pertaining to the user names in the field?

• mtm

• January 31, 2022 at 9:49 am

I have figured this out. The solution is as below, with the user field set to return “User Array”:

<?php $author_id = get_field('user')['ID']; ?>
by <a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url($author_id) ?>" rel="author"><?php echo get_field('user')['display_name']; ?></a>

Credit to @imvrk at this thread for the steer: https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/display-multiple-selected-users-not-working/