How to Obtain Author ID and Get Author Profile Outside the WordPress Loop

milly 11:44 pm on November 25, 2009 | Answers: 1    
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• milly 11:48 pm on November 25, 2009
  

  First of all, you need to obtain the author’s profile data. Place the following code in your sidebar or widget.

  // Get the author profile data using author's ID ($author)
  if(isset($_GET['author_name'])) {
    $curauth = get_userdatabylogin(get_the_author_login());
  } else {
    $curauth = get_userdata(intval($author));
  }

  After obtaining author’s profile data, you will be able to display the following information:
  (Note: Be careful about what you are displaying.)

  echo $curauth->ID;
  echo $curauth->user_login;
  echo $curauth->user_pass;
  echo $curauth->user_nicename;
  echo $curauth->user_email;
  echo $curauth->user_url;
  echo $curauth->user_registered;
  echo $curauth->user_activation_key;
  echo $curauth->user_status;
  echo $curauth->display_name;
  echo $curauth->first_name;
  echo $curauth->last_name;
  echo $curauth->nickname;
  echo $curauth->description;
  echo $curauth->user_level;
  echo $curauth->admin_color;
  echo $curauth->closedpostboxes_page;
  echo $curauth->nickname;
  echo $curauth->primary_blog;
  echo $curauth->rich_editing;
  echo $curauth->source_domain;

  If you want to display author’s profile using widget, you need to declare the global variable $author in your widget’s function first, follow by the getting the author data above.

  function widget_name() {
    global $author;
  
  ...
  }