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I plan on using the "jabber" field to store a custom id for blog owners. Is there a built-in method for retrieving that value to place in the template?

Details:
The field will hold the blog owner's affiliate id. In the template file, I want to use the value to append their affiliate id to a link.

Any feedback is appreciated.

I forgot to mention that I need to access the value for use in the template itself and not in a post or page.

Jabber field?

Looking at /wp-includes/author-template.php there is no built in get_jabber stuff. I don't know where else it would be if it even exists.

Example: put this in the functions.php of your template

<?php
function get_the_author_jabber() {
	global $authordata;
	return $authordata->jabber;
}
?>

and this in your "loop" will echo the jabber

<?php echo get_the_author_jabber(); ?>

Source: http://trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/4950/author-jabber.diff