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Is there a way to retrieve the blog owner's name in a php function or something? I tried looking at the codex and couldn't find anything. In other words, is there a way to get the value of the blog owner's "Display name publicly as" field?

The search over there is awful.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author

That's for the post author though.

Do you want the post author or the actual blog owner's nice name?

blog owner baby.

Hmm, the other issue would be that a blog can have more than one owner.

I'm going to have to fiddle with this one as well.

Thanks andrea_r, I looked at that and I was able to use it, but if I could get the actual blog owner's name, that would be great. Thanks everyone :D

the_author('display_name'); always returns the value set in profile.php for my blogs.(I use this in a site-wide footer)

Thanks dsader, it worked well enough for me :)

We probably should come up with a way to list the admins (and other levels?) of the blogs though.

I marked this thread along with the other two that I promised scripts on and I'll see what I can do with them later today.

Has there been any progress with this? I just want to be able to pull the admin userlist for the blog i'm viewing and display it anywhere within that blog.

Query the database. Simple as that.

I no longer release my code publicly. You may want to review how the admins are displayed on the wp-admin/users.php page as wpmu is already doing this. You just have to modify the code yourself.

Thanks for the info and tip!