get_profile( string $field, false|int $user = false ): string

Parameters

$fieldstring

User meta field.

$userfalse|intoptional

User ID to retrieve the field for. Default false (current user).Default: false

Return

string

The author's field from the current author's DB object.

Uses · 3

• _deprecated_function()Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.
• get_user_by()Retrieves user info by a given field.
• get_the_author_meta()Retrieves the requested data of the author of the current post.

Source

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2430function get_profile( $field, $user = false ) {2431	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '3.0.0', 'get_the_author_meta()' );2432	if ( $user ) {2433		$user = get_user_by( 'login', $user );2434		$user = $user->ID;2435	}2436	return get_the_author_meta( $field, $user );2437}

History

Introduced in 1.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.

1. 6.7.7
2. 6.8.8
3. 6.9.7
4. 7.0.4
5. 7.1.0

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.

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