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  • December 21, 2020 at 12:52 AM #23652
    Resolved dmccan
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    Hi Meta Box Team,

    When creating a View for a Custom Post Type single, when I click the Insert Field button, I don't see the author as a field that can be inserted. Is there a way to retrieve the post author? This did not work:

    {{ post.author }}

    Thank you,

    David

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  • December 21, 2020 at 2:08 AM #23653
    dmccan
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    This works: {{ mb.get_the_author() }}

    December 22, 2020 at 3:13 AM #23677
    dmccan
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    I expected the post Author fields in the Post Fields group, but found them in the User group via the drop down.

    December 22, 2020 at 6:10 AM #23682
    Long Nguyen
    Moderator

    Hi,

    In the View, we can click to the tab Insert Field > Tab User > User dropdown: Post Author > Then click the User options below: User ID, first name ...

    Or use the mb. proxy to connect all supported template tags of WordPress and your custom function, see more in the documentation https://docs.metabox.io/extensions/mb-views/#running-php-functions.

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