Template Tags in Hooks

Hi there,

not currently, as i am not sure it is possible to add the template tags to hooks.
So the function needs to be echoed out like this:

<?php echo get_the_author_meta('display_name', $author_id); ?>

This will just output the string. So i you want to give it some style then do this instead:

<?php 
$custom_author_name = get_the_author_meta('display_name', $author_id); 
echo '<span class="custom-author">' . $custom_author_name . '</span>';
?>

Thanks for the reply David. That still doesn't seem to be working. Here is a screenshot of what I have. https://imgur.com/a/usZfAZH

Try switching out $author_id for 'ID'

Weird. Still nothing...man this is so strange. It's a very clean install of WordPress too so I don't think there is anything conflicting.

Daft question - what is the display name set to in the User Profile of the post author?

Good thing to check: https://imgur.com/a/T2JVd1l

I think that is right...

Any other thoughts on what my causing the issue here? Let me know if you need login to take a look.

You have a couple of issues there.

$id_or_email and $author_id aren't defined anywhere.

get_avatar() should look like this:

Then you should remove $author_id from the other get_the_author_meta() function.

This seems to be working from me. If you guys seen any red flags let me know.

<?php
    global $post;
    $author_id=$post->post_author;
?>
<div class="custom-post-sub-heading">
<h2><?php single_post_title(); ?></h2>
<h4><?php the_excerpt(); ?></h4>
<div class="custom-post-meta">
<div class="post-avatar"><?php echo get_avatar( $author_id, $size = '70'); ?></div>
<span class="author-name"><a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url($author_id); ?>"><?php the_author_meta( 'display_name', $author_id ); ?></a></span><br>	
<span class="entry-date"><?php echo get_the_date(); ?></span>
<span class="read-time">[kt_reading_time]</span>
</div>	
</div>

Looks good to me! Thanks for sharing