Title: get_profile
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# get_profile( string $field, false|int $user = false ): string

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_profile/?output_format=md#description)
    - [See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_profile/?output_format=md#see-also)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_profile/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_profile/?output_format=md#return)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_profile/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_profile/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_profile/?output_format=md#changelog)

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This function has been deprecated since 3.0.0. Use [get_the_author_meta()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_author_meta/)
instead.

Retrieve user data based on field.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_profile/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_profile/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [get_the_author_meta()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_author_meta/)

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_profile/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$field`stringrequired

User meta field.

`$user`false|intoptional

User ID to retrieve the field for. Default false (current user).

Default:`false`

## 󠀁[Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_profile/?output_format=md#return)󠁿

 string The author’s field from the current author’s DB object.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_profile/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    function get_profile( $field, $user = false ) {
    	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '3.0.0', 'get_the_author_meta()' );
    	if ( $user ) {
    		$user = get_user_by( 'login', $user );
    		$user = $user->ID;
    	}
    	return get_the_author_meta( $field, $user );
    }
    ```

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[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/deprecated.php#L2427)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/deprecated.php#L2427-L2434)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_profile/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Uses | Description | 
| [get_user_by()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_user_by/)`wp-includes/pluggable.php` |

Retrieves user info by a given field.

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| [get_the_author_meta()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_author_meta/)`wp-includes/author-template.php` |

Retrieves the requested data of the author of the current post.

  | 
| [_deprecated_function()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/_deprecated_function/)`wp-includes/functions.php` |

Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.

  |

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_profile/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.0.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.0.0/) | Deprecated. Use [get_the_author_meta()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_author_meta/)  | 
| [1.5.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/1.5.0/) | Introduced. |

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