Use get_field for data from particular post AND specific author

• fontsnob

• February 16, 2016 at 4:31 am

Hello. I’m using get_field to display some data from a particular post on another page, this is working as expected user get_field($field_name, $post_id).

However, I also want to check whether the post_id I’m referencing has the current user as the author. If so, display the data, if not, don’t. I see in the documentation that $post_id can target a specific user (user_#) but I’m not sure how to set up the query to support post_id such that it can reference a post ID that’s not the current post, in addition to matching the author to the logged in user.

Thanks.

• James

• February 16, 2016 at 6:29 pm

Hi @fontsnob

You can use get_post() and wp_get_current_user() to check the author and the current user. Something like this:

$otherPost = get_post($post_id);
$currentUser = wp_get_current_user();
if($otherPost->post_author == $currentUser->ID){
    //do something if current user is the post author
}

Hope this helps.

• fontsnob

• February 17, 2016 at 5:03 am

It did, thanks!