[Resolved] How to get author picture stored in custom image field?

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[himanshuS]

I have a custom post type called portfolio. I am creating a single post for this post type on registration using custom code.

This post type will be visible to the user and will host their portfolio.

I am enabling user registration through toolset but don't want the user to provide profile picture info on registration. I am also using edit user form to enable user to add more information. However, the edit user form does not allow me to add the wordpress profile_picture field in the form, which prevents me from editing user's profile picture. As a workaround, I have created a custom image field that allows user to add an image to their profile.

Now I want to show the image stored in custom field on the portfolio post. I tried the following but all of them have limitations:
1) [wpv-post-author] does not extract data from custom fields. The meta fields are also of no use and profile_picture shows the image added on registration by default (not the image I want)
2) [wpv-user] does not work either as when I try to pass author id in the code as shown below.

<?php global $wpdb;
$author_id = do_shortcode('[wpv-post-author format="meta" meta="ID"]');
$author_picture = do_shortcode('[wpv-user field="wpcf-profile-picture" id="$author_id"]');
print_r($author_picture);
?>

What am I missing here?

[Christian Cox]

As a workaround, I have created a custom image field that allows user to add an image to their profile...Now I want to show the image stored in custom field on the portfolio post.
Hello, if you want to display a Types custom field from the User profile, neither of the shortcodes you mention are designed for that. Instead, you should use a Types usermeta field shortcode or the types_render_usermeta API, as described here: https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/functions/#image
Click "+More" to see examples and information about each accepted attribute. Shortcode example:

[types usermeta="your-field-slug" alt="blue bird" width="300" height="200" proportional="true" user_is_author="true"][/types]

PHP API example:

types_render_usermeta("your-field-slug", array( "alt" => "blue bird", "width" => "300", "height" => "200", "proportional" => "true", "user_is_author" => "true" ) );

[himanshuS]

Chris,

Well, that was easy 🙂

I should have read the document in more detail. Thanks, man.

Regards,
Himanshu

[himanshuS]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!