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I want to show some content on the front end ONLY to the author of an entry.  Although the documentation only mentions ‘member_id’ in context of the currently logged-in user, it appears using it within the Channel Entries tag uses the member_id of the author, so that the following always evaluates to true:

{exp:channel:entries channel="news"}
 {if {member_id} == {author_id}}
  Show this content
 {/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

I’ve tried setting a Stash variable for each, but somehow I can’t get the variables to work inside a conditional (have posted on the Stash forum about that).

I’d be very grateful for any and all ideas on how to show content only to an entry’s author.

Thanks,

Matthew

a long shot, but have you tried it without the parentheses around each variable?

{if author_id == member_id}
show this content to logged in author
{/if}

I find on occasion EE is sensitive to these seemingly little differences.  Hope that helps.

Hi Matthew,

I’ve never needed to do this myself, but I remembered something about needing to use a different syntax for member variables within channel tags to avoid conflicts. I think the info here might do the trick:
http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/templates/globals/conditionals.html#alternative-syntax

As per the code sample there try:

{if logged_in_member_id == author_id}
Show this content
{/if}

I hadn’t thought of that, but unfortunately the conditional still always evaluates to true.

There has got to be a way to do this…

EDIT: Cross-posted with tidy’s post, will go try that now.

That did it - thanks so much! 😊

Glad that worked for you Matthew - it’s fairly hidden in the docs