Get author ID of a post in wordpress

Question

Im creating a loop where it pulls info about a users activity. the code is on the author page and what i want to to is get the current author ID, so based on what author page th

Answer 1

Try this

global $wp_query;
$thePostID = $wp_query->post->ID;
$postdata = get_postdata($thePostID);
$authorID = $postdata['Author ID'];

or something like this

post_author; ?>