I have created a custom post type & have enabled frontend posting for the same. I need the Edit post page to display the original author's email id. I already have "post author" displayed, but that just gives the name & username of the author. How do I go about doing this?
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Probably you use get_post on edit page with query object. You can simply use $post->post_author on edit page. For example;
$editableid = get_query_var('id');
$postedit = get_post($editableid);
$author_id = $postedit->post_author; //Always return author ID value.
<input type="hidden" name="post_author" value="<?php echo $author_id;?>" />
I hope this code piece helps you.
EDIT : For email you use the_author_meta with your $author_id value.
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Thanks but I found another way around. Marked this as a solution for anyone looking to do the same – Sumit Shetty Aug 22 '18 at 5:44
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I had a form on the frontend from which a user can submit the post data. I needed that author's email id to show up in the post that he created. So what I did was to add a hidden field in the form & called the user's email id into another field using a shortcode. Then on selection of a dropdown, I put in a jquery where the hidden field would be filled automatically. Sounds complicated, but worked out. – Sumit Shetty Aug 22 '18 at 5:48
