Problem: I would like to display the Author User's custom field information in an Author archive, but the Types usermeta field shortcode does not seem to work.
Solution: You must include the Author's User ID in the user_id attribute in an Author archive. Unfortunately there is no built-in way to retrieve that Author's User ID simply. It requires a custom shortcode. Add the following code in your child theme's functions.php file, or to a new code snippet in Toolset > Settings > Custom Code:
function get_author_id_in_archive_func($atts) {
return get_the_author_meta('ID');
}
add_shortcode("get-author-id-in-archive", "get_author_id_in_archive_func");
This shortcode will return the User ID of the author in the current WordPress Archive.
Then go to Toolset > Settings > Front-end Content > Third party shortcode arguments and register get-author-id-in-archive. This will allow you to use the new custom shortcode as an argument in the Types usermeta field shortcode. Now your nested Types field shortcode syntax can use the user_id attribute like this:
