Question

This post relates to WordPress and CIMY User Extra Fields. I do not think you need a knowledge of the latter to help with this problem, as it seems to be a WordPress issue more than anything.

CIMY User Extra Fields is a plugin that allows registered users to have much more information in their profiles. You can add as many fields as you want. You then have to edit “author.php” to pull in the new information.

I am currently using the following code to pull in the new user profile fields:

<?php if (have_posts()) { $flag = true;  while (have_posts()) { the_post();
if ($flag) { $value = get_cimyFieldValue(get_the_author_ID(), 'dj-name');
if ($value != NULL) echo "<p><strong>Staff Bio: </strong>" . cimy_uef_sanitize_content($value);
echo "</p>";
$flag = false;    }}}?>

The issue is this. Some of my users have 0 posts and this code will only pull the extra field content for the user if that have 1 post or more. This is due to the “if (have_posts())” function I suspect. Is there someway to modify the code to display the information even if the user has 0 posts?

Thanks
Zach

Answer 1

If it’s not a need that a user must have a post to have CIMY values stored (which I assume), you just don’t need to check for post-count > 0. You probably have copied that chunk of code over from a post template.

The following example just takes the value, and if it is set, will do the output via echo:

<?php
  $authorID = get_the_author_meta('ID');
  $value = get_cimyFieldValue($authorID, 'dj-name');
  if (!empty($value))
    echo '<p><strong>Staff Bio: </strong>'
         , cimy_uef_sanitize_content($value)
         , '</p>'
    ;
?>