Default Custom Fields

Here it is. Thanks Lester.

Thank you Lester! (the answer to my previous post)

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: WP-Add Author Custom Fields
Plugin URI: https://www.lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming.php
Description: Adds default author fields to make author name and username meta-data that can be searched with Kaf's search custom fields plugin (https://guff.szub.net/2006/04/21/search-custom-fields/).
Version: 1.11
Author: Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan
Author URI: https://www.lesterchan.net
*/

/*
	Copyright 2007  Lester Chan  (email : [email protected])

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
*/

### Function: Add Author Custom Fields
add_action('publish_post', 'add_author_fields');
function add_author_fields($post_ID) {
global $wpdb;
$user_id = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT post_author FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $post_ID");
$first_name = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT meta_value FROM $wpdb->usermeta WHERE meta_key = 'first_name' AND user_id = $user_id");
$last_name = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT meta_value FROM $wpdb->usermeta WHERE meta_key = 'last_name' AND user_id = $user_id");
$user_name = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT user_login FROM $wpdb->users WHERE ID = $user_id");
add_post_meta($post_ID, 'author_realname', $first_name.' '.$last_name, true);
add_post_meta($post_ID, 'author_username', $user_name, true);
}

?>

That’s neat. So once you got everything hooked up, it works for what you want? (Ability to search by-author, I guess… So can you search for all references to “WordPress” by Author Username “thedesigncoalition”?)

No this is just for searching for posts by a certain person, NOT a keyword + the author. In my usage I am using Kaf’s plugin that i mentioned above and I have 3 radio buttons, so you can search by “author’s real name”, “author’s username”, or the default search “post content”.

I believe this plugin provides the functionality you speak of.

But…. but….. default WordPress already provides an “author archive” page for every author, so there’s already a built-in way to show all the posts by 1 author, isn’t there?

On my site the URL works automagically, no plugin, no search required
mysite.com/blog/author/author-username-here/

true true. but what if you are using wordpress as a cms for a social networking site and your end users want to look for their friend “Travis Dahl” or just search for “Travis” or just “Dahl” and they don’t know what his username is. Believe me, I am taking adavantage of that built url feature too.

On a nother note, do you know how to change the text in that URL? for example:

mysite.com/blog/artist/author-username-here/

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