crotech
Member
Posted 14 years ago #
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.
crotech
Member
Posted 14 years ago #
I forgot to mention that I need to access the value for use in the template itself and not in a post or page.
MrBrian
Member
Posted 14 years ago #
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