How to get Author ID outside the loop

Posted by Prem Tiwari | Updated on September 26, 2020

Here’s how to obtain and get the author ID outside the WordPress loop:

<?php

global $post;

$author_id=$post->post_author;

Then it is possible to us the_author_meta:

<?php

the_author_meta( 'user_nicename', $author_id );

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