How to display data beneath the user's avatar?

[tshenry (Taylor)]

Ah yeah, I ran into a similar issue when trying to tinker around with something for a theme. The answer I got was:

Request for help on finding a user's full name in a theme component context

This is going to have to go in the serializer or you are going to be doing the worst kind of N+1 which is a Network+1 I am ok with last poster including name if the site has prioritize full names in the UI. Otherwise you are going to need a plugin.

Since it sounds like you are able to use a plugin, I think you should be able to add the custom_field to the post serializer.

I’m pretty sure this topic will have some useful info and give you some good inspiration:

What is this code add_to_serializer in all these plugins

I have seen this code in discourse_signatures plugin User.register_custom_field_type('see_signatures', :boolean) User.register_custom_field_type('signature_url', :text) User.register_custom_field_type('signature_raw', :text) if SiteSetting.signatures_enabled then add_to_serializer(:post, :user_signature, false) { if SiteSetting.signatures_advanced_mode then object.user.custom_fields['signature_raw'] else object.user.custom_fields['signature_url'] end } # I guess …

My knowledge on plugins is admittedly limited, so if anyone else reading has better advice, please chime in