Question

This:

echo '<br>';
$author_single = sprintf( '/%s/single.php', 'francadaval' );
echo ( $author_single );

echo '<br>';
$author_single = sprintf( '/%s/single.php', the_author_meta( 'nickname') );
echo ( $author_single );

echo '<br>';
$nick = the_author_meta( 'nickname');
$author_single = sprintf( '/%s/single.php', $nick );
echo ( $author_single );

show this:

/francadaval/single.php
francadaval//single.php
francadaval//single.php

I saw that the concatenation order is affected by the function call so I tried to use a intermediate variable but it doesn’t work.

Using dot operator instead of sprintf or with "/{$nick}/single.php" does the same.

The function the_author_meta is a WordPress function to get data from the author of a post and in this case must returns the author’s nickname (‘francadaval‘).

How can I get this working so $author_single results to be ‘/francadaval/single.php’ using the function call for the nickname of the author?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You should use get_the_author_meta instead of the_author_meta.

• the_author_meta display author meta
• get_the_author_meta return author meta