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Hi,

As the title suggests, I’m trying to get custom member fields for an author in the channel entries loop.

I have {first_name} and {last_name} in my registration form rather and I would like to use those fields rather than a username or screen_name for user generated content.

Is this possible already or do I need to create a plugin for this functionality?

Thanks

You can use the Custom Profile Data Tag to display custom member fields. Certain variables, like {username} and {screen_name}, are always available and need not be inside of a tag pair to get parsed.

You can also try Solspace’s User module, which has a Stats tag for displaying all kinds of user information; it functions a lot like the Custom Profile Data Tag, but is more flexible.

Thanks for the assist, Ryan.

SF9 - does that information help?

Hi Ryan, Sue, yes that helps perfectly, can’t believe I missed that. Thanks

Good stuff 😊 Feel free as always to start a new thread if you have any more questions