I wish to display the @username next to the name of the creator of the post. Trying several different combinations but not coming up with anything. How would I call and display the @username of the creator of the post in bbPress?

[John James JacobyKeymaster @johnjamesjacoby 9 months, 3 weeks ago]

Something similar to:

$user = get_userdata( $user_id );
if ( !empty( $user->user_nicename ) ) {
    $user_nicename = $user->user_nicename;
}

…should do it. You’ll need to sort out the context of how to get the $user_id though.

[Good in TodayMember @goodintoday 9 months, 3 weeks ago]

First of all, thank you for your help.

Now, I came up with…

$user = get_userdata( bbp_reply_author_id() ); 

if ( !empty( $user->user_nicename ) ) {
$user_nicename = $user->user_nicename;
}

… but it returns the user ID number, not the nicename. Any further thoughts?

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[Good in TodayMember @goodintoday 9 months, 3 weeks ago]

Geesh, sorry for all the edits but I guess I don’t get your insert code thing. Anyway I used bbp reply author id to pull the id but this all together returns just that, the author id number. Any further ideas?

[John James JacobyKeymaster @johnjamesjacoby 9 months, 3 weeks ago]

Because bbp_reply_author_id() does not return, it echo’s.

Use bbp_get_reply_author_id() instead. It will return a value.

get functions always return, their counterparts always echo.

[Good in TodayMember @goodintoday 9 months, 3 weeks ago]

Thank you, John. I swapped those and it returned nothing. But when I added an echo to actually display the value it works as I wished for it too, so thank you for your help!

[Sambora5150Participant @sambora5150 3 months ago]

Hello Foks

@goodintoday or somebody else can tell me exactly the code and where to apply it to show the  @username with the creator of the post