Adding custom field to an array

Question

How can I add a custom field to an array? To complicate matters, custom field is on the Author's page, not on a regular post. It's added via Advanced Custom Fields. Typically, that field value would be called with <?php the_field(author_status); ?>.

Here's the full code I'm working with right now.

 <?php
 //displays all users with their avatar and their posts (titles)
 $blogusers = get_users_of_blog();
 if ($blogusers) {
   foreach ($blogusers as $bloguser) {
     echo '<div class="content-slider-body">';
    $user = get_userdata($bloguser->user_id);
     echo '<div class="grid col-140">' . get_avatar( $user->ID, 128 ) . '</div>';
     $args=array(
       'author' => $user->ID,
       'post_type' => 'post',
       'post_status' => 'publish',
       'posts_per_page' => 1,
       'caller_get_posts'=> 1
     );
     $my_query = null;
     $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
     if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
       //echo 'List of Posts for ' . user->user_firstname . ' ' . $user->user_lastname;
       while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
         <div class="grid col-460 fit"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
            <!--post-meta-->
            <div class="post-data"><span class="date"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></span> by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>
                <?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>
                    <span class="comments-link">
                <?php comments_popup_link(__('Leave a Comment &darr;', 'responsive'), __('1 Comment &darr;', 'responsive'), __('% Comments &darr;', 'responsive')); ?>
                    </span>
                <?php endif; ?>
            </div>
    <br /><?php the_excerpt(); ?></div>

    <?php echo '<span class="rsTmb">' . $user->user_firstname . ' ' . $user->user_lastname . '</span></div>'; ?>
        <?php
       endwhile;
     }
   wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
   }
 }
 ?>

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OMG, I got it to work! Placed this where I need it in the repeatable area:

<?php the_author_meta( 'author_status', $user->ID ); ?>

Answer 1

$args = array(
    'meta_query' => array(
        array(
            'key' => 'author_status',
            'value' => 'active',
                    'compare' => 'NOT LIKE'
        )
    )
 );

This Url works

http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Custom_Field_Parameters

Answer 2

$author_status = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'author_status');

This will return an array of all the values for that term. If you just want a single string of the first value, you can add a true as a third argument.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_meta

### EDIT

In light of the additional information from your comment, you need to be accessing the information directly from the WP_User object itself.

Try this:

$author_status = $user->get('author_status');

That should do it for you.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_User#get.28_.24key_.29

Answer 3

This was added to the area with repeatable content: <?php the_author_meta( 'author_status', $user->ID ); ?>

Replace author_status with the name of your AUTHOR CUSTOM FIELD.

Solution is from here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_author_meta