If you want to get user id by login name in WordPress? You can achieve this by using get_userdatabylogin() function. Use following code in your theme’s functions.php file OR in site specific plugin.
1 2 3 4 | $user = get_userdatabylogin('loginname'); if($user){ echo $user->ID; } |
Example:
1 2 | $user = get_userdatabylogin('admin'); if($user) echo $user->ID; // Outputs 1 |
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