WordPress: get author info from post id

Question

Or even the author id from the post id. I am trying to return the author meta (author page link and avatar) in the sidebar of a single post page (outside of the post loop).

Answer 1

Valid values for the $field parameter include:

• admin_color
• aim
• comment_shortcuts
• description
• display_name
• first_name
• ID
• jabber
• last_name
• nickname
• plugins_last_view
• plugins_per_page
• rich_editing
• syntax_highlighting
• user_activation_key
• user_description
• user_email
• user_firstname
• user_lastname
• user_level
• user_login
• user_nicename
• user_pass
• user_registered
• user_status
• user_url
• yim