How to add author name to custom get_post_meta

  • Hi,

    I’m a newbie in wordpress, finding it difficult to retrieve author name from custom get post meta api

    Below is snippet of my code

    add_action( 'rest_api_init', 'my_register_template_hook' );
function my_register_template_hook() {
    register_rest_field( 'post', // any post type registered with API
        'appp',
        array(
            'get_callback'    => 'my_get_hook_data',
            'update_callback' => null,
            'schema'          => null,
        )
    );
}
    function my_get_hook_data( $object, $field_name, $request ) {
    $data['post_detail']['below_title'] = '<span class="schedule-time">' . get_post_meta( $object['id'], 'author', true) . '</span>';

       $data['post_detail']['above_title'] = '<div class="post-featured-wrap">' . get_the_post_thumbnail( $object['id'], 'large', array( 'class' => 'post-featured' ) ) . '</div>'; 
       
   return $data;
}

    I could only retrieve featured image

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Have you set a custom field named “author”? That is not how WP saves the post author by default, it only saves the user ID with posts (keyed as “author” or “post_author”). You then need to use something like get_userdata( $user_id ) to get the remaining author data.

    It’s not a great idea to save additional author data with post meta. Redundant data just increases the complexity of site maintenance. Ideally, no discrete information should appear in more than one place.

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