Displaying an ACF list of users

Question

I've created a custom field using ACF to display the editors of a page (this may be a comma separated list of a few) including a link to their archive, but all I'm getting is a plain text 'Array'. Could someone help me get this right? For some reason I'm not finding the right info through the documentation.

if(get_field('editor')) { echo ', edited by ' . get_field('editor') . '';}
$values = get_field('editor'); if($values) { foreach($values as $value) {
echo ' ' . $value . ','; } }

Answer 1

You can use get_author_posts_url() or get_the_author_meta():

$values = get_field( 'editor' );
if ( $values ) {
  $editors = array();
  foreach ( $values as $value ) {
    $link = get_author_posts_url( $value['ID'] ); //get the url
    $nicename = $value['user_nicename'];
    $editors[] = sprintf( '<a href="%s">%s</a>', $link, $nicename ); //create a link for each author
  }
  echo 'Edited by: ' . implode( ',', $editors );
}

Answer 2

You can also use Co-Authors Plus WordPress plugin.

Features:

1).Assign multiple bylines to posts, pages, and custom post types via a search-as-you-type input box.

2).Co-authored posts appear on a co-author's archive page and in their feed. Co-authors may edit the posts they are associated with.

3).Co-authors who are contributors may only edit posts if they have not been published (as is core behavior).

4).Add writers as bylines without creating WordPress user accounts. Simply create a guest author profile for the writer and assign the byline as you normally would.

5).On the frontend, use the Co-Authors Plus template tags to list co-authors anywhere you'd normally list the author.

Note:

Post Authors Post Link Shortcode for this plugin