[Resolved] View filter by current user nicename

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[JamesS2731]

Hi there,

I'm trying to create a dynamic link for the bbpress forum users to take them directly to their notification options.

I thought I could user their username in the link:

Email Notifications

but looking at bbpress, it needs to be their nicename.

I tried:

Email Notifications

but this then requires a query filter to limit the result to the current user.

Do you have any idea how I can either:

1. Use the user_nicename field but limit it to the current user

or

2. Use the nicename field with the wpb-current-user?

Any thoughts or ideas most welcomed.

Best regards
James

[Nigel]

Hi James

It doesn't look either shortcode—on its own or in combination—is able to output the user nicename for the current user.

You can output the nicename with the wpv-user shortcode, but cannot specify the current user.

You can specify a specific user via the id attribute, so I suggest you register a simple custom shortcode that returns the ID of the current user, and use that to provide the value for the id attribute of the wpv-user shortcode.

So the shortcode would be like this:

add_shortcode('current-userid', function () {

    $uid = get_current_user_id();

    return $uid;
});

Then register this shortcode so that it can be used in Views shortcode arguments, at Toolset > Settings > Front-end Content > Third-party shortcode arguments.

You can then use the shortcode like so:

[wpv-user field="nicename" id="[current-userid]"]

[JamesS2731]

Many thanks Nigel, that worked perfectly! Thank you for such a quick response.

Best regards
James