Display Username in URL

Hello,

I am sure this is very simple but have not been able to do it just yet.
I would like to load the post author user_login and attach it to the end of a url in a widget.

I came up with this but it doesn’t work:

<?php 
$username = get_the_author_meta('user_login');
?>
<a href="https://www.MYLINK.com/R1-<?php echo $username; ?>" target="_blank">MY LINK NAME</a>

Thank you for your help!

• This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by Jan Dembowski.