Write username outside the loop

Something like this should work – THIS IS UNTESTED! – There may be simpler ways, natch.

<?php  if (is_user_logged_in()){
           global $current_user;
           get_currentuserinfo();
           echo('Hello, ' . $current_user->user_login . "!\n");
         }
         else {
           echo "Welcome, visitor!";
           };
?>

Well it works fine! Thank you for help very much!

And how to make the username linked to it’s profile page? (not on dashboard main page)

Hmm. I think it’d be this.

echo('Hello, <a href="https://www.domain.com/author/' . $current_user->user_login . '">' . $current_user->user_login . !</a>\n');

My only worry is I may be having a stupid moment between ” and ‘ in the echo statement :/

Something is wrong in this code ??

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<'

Well I corrected the code, it would be

echo('Hello, <a href="wp-admin/profile.php">' . $current_user->user_login . !'</a>\n');
         }

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Thank you again for help ??

OH! You meant a link to edit the profile! Heh, I was thinking a link to view it. Glad it worked for you! Happy happy.

Is it possible that only view the profile without the ability to edit it? I have never heard anything about it. What does the page look like?

That’s the URL I gave you before.

https://www.domain.com/author/<name&gt;

You may want to change <a href="wp-admin/profile.php"> to <a href="/wp-admin/profile.php"> by the way, or /blog/, depending on how you set up your blog, so that it will work from every page.

And I see where I got the code wrong and why you had the unexpected <

echo('Hello, <a href="/wp-admin/profile.php">' . $current_user->user_login . '!</a>\n')

Put the ` on the left of the !, basically. I left it off my first example!