In this post, you will find a step-by-step process that will retrieve the user profile image URL in WordPress. The common way to get the image uses the get_avatar function. The function itself returns an HTML IMG tag which makes it hard to customize. But having a profile picture link enables to set the user’s image as a background picture. […]

In WordPress, there are six basics user capabilities and roles. When the blog has many authors(users) it becomes a challenge to reveal the roles of a user. Although, it is possible to get an author role in a very simple way. WordPress can provide user’s information by a get_userdata function. It is a function that has an object which is […]

WordPress allows displaying the author’s nickname instead of the real name. The actual and non-deprecated WordPress function for display is get_the_author_meta. To output the nickname, the field value of nickname passes to get_the_author_meta This function is able to retrieve various data relating to the author. Check other usages here: How to get Author email Here are some ways to get […]

You can display the author’s images in the writer biography box which exposes the author’s social media profiles. In WordPress, there is a number of WordPress plugins that can show the gallery of the author. Some of the plugins that solve this problem include Social Author Bio and Xpandable author tab. But it is not necessary to install a plugin […]

This is a short and simplified instruction to get a specific author’s posts in WordPress. If the website has at least one author, each author’s posts can be shown on a single page. It does simplify the author’s fans to see the posts of their favorite blog writer. In a simple way, to get posts from an author requires the […]