Get question author username
I you are in question loop, then:
ap_question_get_author_id(); //get author ID ap_question_get_the_author_id(); //Echo author ID
or if not in loop then you can simply use WP function to retrieve author ID.
Here you can see, that the wordpress function does not returns the correct name: http://fs1.directupload.net/images/150717/tjqbjlmf.png
The name above the question is generated by this function:
global $post;
$a_id = $post->post_author;
echo get_the_author_meta( ‘user_nicename’ , $a_id );
Its because your are getting nice name, try this: echo get_the_author_meta( ‘display_name’ , $a_id );
I just analysed the $post he gets and this was the result: http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150718/8gdyhjsc.png
So I guess this is the meta of the page, that contains the “[anspress]” shortcode and not the question meta
@Rahul ?
Please tell me clearly what you are trying to do, your question is not clear to me.
Ok 🙂 Im trying to get the username of the question author outside the loop. The problem is, that when I call the $post->post_author; function via shortcode in the “Anspress top” widget area, it returns the author name of the page that contains the [anspress] shortcode instead of the question. You can see a var_dumb of the $post->post_author; here: http://area51.zoker.me/freelancer/support/community/question/third-test/
I guess I`m not in the loop, because I get this error: http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150705/kf27esh7.png
When I try to get the author ID via wordpress function, I only get the username of the admin and not of the question user