Show author’s first name and first letter/initial of last name.

I tried this :

echo substr($the_author_lastname->last_name, 0, 1);

and

echo substr(the_author_lastname(),0,1);

didnt do anything =(

Try this..

$sep = ' '; // Seperator between first name and last initial (space currently)
$ln_init = the_author_meta('last_name');
echo the_author_meta('first_name') . $sep . $ln_init{0};

hm tried that it seemed to to just display the the name like this

ObamaBarack

thanks though.

This is a snippet of my code :

foreach($posts as $post){
    setup_postdata($post);
    childtheme_post_header();

if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'full-image', $single = true))
	echo '<img class="full-image" src="'.get_post_meta($post->ID, 'full-image', $single = true).'"/>';
else
    echo '<img class="full-image" src="'.bloginfo('url').'" />';
    echo the_author_meta('first_name');
    echo ('&nbsp;');
    echo the_author_meta('last_name');
}

but my latest fix is:

if(strlen($the_author_lastname->lastint) >1){
echo substr(last_lastint(),0,1);
}
else{
last_lastint();
}

I’m so sure I’ve seen this before, I think if I am unable to figure it out maybe I can edit each profile and add a nickname to be “Barack O.” and just tell wordpress to display nickname, but I hope it does not come to that.

this worked in my setup (in the normal loop):
<?php echo $authordata->first_name.' '.substr($authordata->last_name,0,1).'.'; ?>

alternatively, using the_author_meta() and get_the_author_meta() :
<?php the_author_meta('first_name'); ?> <?php echo substr(get_the_author_meta('last_name'),0,1); ?>.

(ps: might need some adjustments to keep the output nice if some of the fields are empty)

ALCHYMYTH
youre a genius it worked. I used your alternate method it was just missing a space and the period after the last initial so I changed it a little to this:

<?php echo the_author_meta('first_name'); ?>
<?php echo ('&nbsp;'); ?>
<?php echo substr(get_the_author_meta('last_name'),0,1).'.'; ?>

Thanks you. Thank you. Thank you.