How to display a custom field of a specific user?

Hello,

I want to display a custom field of a user on the profile page at a certain place.
How can I access it via PHP?

I tried this:

//get the user name from the parameter in the URL
$profile_user_name = htmlspecialchars($_GET['um_user']);

//Get the corresponding user
$profile_user = get_user_by('login', $profile_user_name);

//Get the user ID from the user, already seems not to work
$profile_user_id = $profile_user->ID;

//And now the age
$profile_user_age = get_user_meta( $profile_user_id, 'user_age', true );

My way does not work and even if it would, isn’t there a shorter way?

Thank you!

Edit: Got it, the answer is um_profile_id()

• This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by michaelpersch.