How to get post author name in WordPress?

Question

In WordPress I need to fetch name of author who created post using author_id.
How can I find author_name ?

Check the [docs](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/the_author/) ... — Ramiz Wachtler, Mar 18 '17 at 08:12

score 38 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '17 at 08:31

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You can use get_the_author_meta(), to get author data.

echo get_the_author_meta('display_name', $author_id);

Hope this helps!

answered Mar 18 '17 at 08:31

Raunak Gupta

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I found that this function is depricated. – Rakhi Prajapati Mar 18 '17 at 09:39
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@RakhiPrajapati: oo isit? I did't knew neither the official doc say anything about it. – Raunak Gupta Mar 18 '17 at 09:48
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`get_the_author_meta()` is not depreciated. You might be thinking of `get_the_author()` – RockyK Jul 06 '21 at 21:36
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Where do `$author_id`'s value come from? This is confusing. – Akshay K Nair Dec 16 '21 at 08:49
@Akshaykn `$author_id` refers to the user ID which belongs to `wp_users.id` field. – Raunak Gupta Dec 17 '21 at 08:13
If you are looking for the author name of the current post (say on a single.php page) you can use `get_the_author_meta('display_name', get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) )` to dynamically get the value of $author_id. – MillerMedia Jun 17 '22 at 19:15

Amit · Answer 2 · 2017-03-18T09:42:03.957

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This should work like charm

<?php echo get_the_author(); ?>

For more detailed information. https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_author

edited Mar 18 '17 at 09:42

answered Mar 18 '17 at 08:32

Amit

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score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 18 '17 at 18:56

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Use below code in single.php or the relevant page you want author name

<?php get_the_author_meta( 'display_name', $author_id ); ?>

answered Mar 18 '17 at 18:56

Nikhil Chopde

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score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 12 '21 at 00:31

When used in the WordPress Custom REST API endpoint you can do it like this:

function customrestapiplugin_getpost( $slug ) {
    $args = [
        'name' => $slug['slug'],
        'post_type' => 'post'
    ];

    $post = get_posts($args);
    
    $data[$i]['id'] = $post[0]->ID;
        $data['title'] = $post[0]->post_title;
        $data['content'] = $post[0]->post_content;
        $data['excerpt'] = $post[0]->post_excerpt;
        $data['slug'] = $post[0]->post_name;
        $data['date'] = $post[0]->post_date;
        $data['link'] = get_permalink($post[0]->ID);
        $data['author'] = get_the_author_meta('display_name', $post[0]->post_author);
        $data['featured_image']['thumbnail'] = get_the_post_thumbnail_url($post[0]->ID, 'thumbnail');
        $data['featured_image']['medium'] = get_the_post_thumbnail_url($post[0]->ID, 'medium');
        $data['featured_image']['large'] = get_the_post_thumbnail_url($post[0]->ID, 'large');

    return $data;
}

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 18 '17 at 08:11

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Add This code in single-post.php

<?php echo get_the_author(); ?>

I hope this will work !!

answered Mar 18 '17 at 08:11

Jawad Abdani

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duplicate of above answer . – Mohammad Ayoub Khan Jun 10 '21 at 14:28

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Nov 05 '21 at 22:49

For those who are looking for a seamless solution on how to get an author of a post in WordPress, this is another lightweight method.

global $wpdb;

    $post_id = 12; // your post id
    
    $post_author_id = (int) $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT post_author FROM {$wpdb->posts} WHERE ID = %d ", $post_id ) );
    
    $author =  new WP_User( $post_author_id );
    
    $display_name = $author->display_name;
    
    $avartar = get_avatar( $post_author_id, 30 ); // get_avatar( userid, size )
    
    $author_url = get_author_posts_url( $post_author_id );

How to get post author name in WordPress?

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