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I'm trying to get all arguments for function get_the_author_meta() or the_author_meta() because I have custom profile fields such as "parent name" and so, not only the normal arguments which is in Function_Reference/the_author_meta

I tried php func_get_args() but I can't make it work

any suggestions ?

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I think you are confusing function arguments with author (user) meta fields. To get all user meta fields you can use get_user_meta() with empty $key parameter. For example, for user with ID 45:

$user_meta = get_user_meta( 45 );

$user_meta will be an array with all meta fields for the user with ID = 45.

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The user meta, including the custom ones, are saved in the wp_usermeta table. You can get all user properties and meta keys using get_userdata( $userid ), an alias of get_user_by( 'id' ) , which returns a WP_User object or false on failure (the user with that ID does not exist).

Furthermore, you can determine if a certain meta key or property is set for a certain user using __isset($key). You can access a meta key or property using __get($key);

For example, you can make a shortcode to display user properties and/or meta keys with

add_shortcode('get-user-property', 'get_user_property');
function get_user_property( $atts ) {
    $atts = shortcode_atts( array(
        'user' => get_current_user_id(),
        'key' => 'display_name',
    ), $atts, 'get-user-property');
    $ud = get_userdata($atts['user']);
    return $ud ? 
        ($ud->__isset($atts['key']) ?
            $ud->__get($atts['key']) :
            (isset($ud->{$atts['key']}) ? 
                $ud->{$atts['key']} : 
                '[not set]'
            )
        ) : 
        '[user does not exist]';
}

Now you can get any user property/meta-key using [get-user-property user="%id%" key="%field_name%"] anywhere you have shortcodes enabled. If the prop is not set for a user, it will return [not set], or [user does not exist] if you got the wrong ID.

If run without any arguments, it will return the display_name of the current user.

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  • @ Andrei Thank you very much, I'm getting [user does not exist] I did the shortcode plugin and in the custom theme page I add $userID=get_current_user_id(); echo do_shortcode("[get-user-property user=\"$userID\" key=\"user_nicename\"]"); am I missing something?
    – usama sulaiman
    Jan 25, 2015 at 14:23
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    Did some testing, updated the code. Should be good now for all props.
    – tao
    Jan 25, 2015 at 15:01
  • Btw, if you use this in page content, you don't need to wrap the shortcode in do_shortcode(). You only need this in php files.
    – tao
    Jan 25, 2015 at 15:11
  • That one working, I could grab data and the good thing is that it's shortcode, but again I can't get all list of arguments :)
    – usama sulaiman
    Jan 25, 2015 at 15:15
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    To see all user properties var_dump ( get_userdata($userid) ); in some test page. Or use adminer to test queries on wp_usermeta table. You need get_user_meta($userid) to get all the custom properties. They are only available to WP_User object through __get() method.
    – tao
    Jan 25, 2015 at 15:26

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