Display Logged-in username on right top of your WordPress website

Get the Current username

Write the following code in your functions.php file to get current user name with short code.

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From the right side panel, select functions.php file and write the below code snippet at the end of the file just before the closing php tag(?>)

//Get Logged-in username with shortcode

function custom_shortcode_func() {

ob_start();

$current_user = wp_get_current_user();

echo ‘Welcome ‘ . $current_user->display_name;

$output = ob_get_clean();

return $output; }

add_shortcode(‘current_user’, ‘custom_shortcode_func’);

Now with the help of Shortcode [current_user] you can display current username wherever you want on the website.
As we want to display the current username on the right top of the header, let us call this shortcode from our header.php file.
Please select header.php file from the right side panel of your Theme Editor page and write the below code snippet to display username on header.

<!– Display Logged-in Username –>

<?php if( is_user_logged_in() ) { ?>

<?php echo do_shortcode( “[current_user]” ); ?>

</div>

<?php } ?>

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