Get more info about the modified author

[alexandruias]

Let's let the developers to have access to all the modified author meta not just the display name.Using the function get_the_modified_author() .

[DrewAPicture]

Hi @alexandruias, welcome to Trac!

This sounds like an interesting idea worth consideration. Some feedback on your patch​:

1. To avoid undefined property notices, we should probably leverage a whitelist of possible user fields when passing $last_user->$field. We'll also need to update the documentation for the the_modified_author filter to mention that the parameter could be any of 'x', 'y', or 'z' user fields
2. Make sure to follow ​core coding standards for spacing in adding your parameter
3. We'll need an @param entry added to the phpDoc for the function for the new parameter, as well as a changelog entry

For the get_the_modified_author() @param entry, something like this should work:

* @param string $field Optional. User field to retrieve for the modified author. Accepts any WP_User field. Default 'display_name'.

For the function's changelog entry, something like this should work:

* @since 4.3.0 Added the `$field` parameter.

[alexandruias]

Better patch

[alexandruias]

@DrewAPicture Thanks for taking a look. I think we are good this time I will take care of the docs.

[alexandruias]

fix aaray to string notice

[alexandruias]

the same as the_author_meta

[alexandruias]

Take in consideration 31186.2.patch not the thrid