Problems with post author

Hi,

I’m having problems with Newspaper theme and more specifically with “replacing” post authors. Could you please help me?

I’m building a site which is based on user submitted posts. I use USP Pro which should enable to show the posts author. So every time when a person fills the form and as a result there’s a user submitted post, the name he/she filled in the form should appear as the post author.

(Basic info can be found here: https://plugin-planet.com/usp-pro-replace-author/)

I’m not that good with PHP but the problem seems to be that while USP Pro should do that when the theme is using any of these four codes (the_author_meta(‘display_name’); – get_the_author_meta(); – get_the_author(); – the_author();), Newspaper theme seems to be using a bit more complex coding on authors.

I quickly noticed that slight changes in e.g. loop-single.php (get_author -> get_the_author) won’t do the trick and the rest of the coding is just too much for me considering my newbie PHP skills… I either get the site’s admin-name as the post author or manage to make a mess of the whole post (only the title appears on post etc.).

So is there a way I could make this replacing of the author work and if so, how should it be done? Any help would be hugely appreciated.