Get author id from url

May 23, 20231 Views

I am trying to get the authors user_id on a page linked to by using get_author_posts_url(),.

For example

http://example.com/author/John%20Smith

where John Smith is user_id is 23. I need to get 23.

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Anonymous says:

May 23, 2023 at 12:46 pm
On an “author” page get_query_var('author') will give you the ID.

get_queried_object() will get you considerably more author information.
```
$author = get_queried_object();
echo $author->ID;
// var_dump($author); // to see all of the information available.
```
For retrieving custom author data follow the Codex.
Anonymous says:

May 23, 2023 at 12:46 pm
First extract the nice name of the author from the author url, then you can get the author then you need to query the wp_users table like bellow.
```
$nicename =  "gowrisankar"; // example
global $wpdb;

$wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT ID FROM wp_users WHERE user_nicename = %s ",$nicename));
```

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