Small issues with Posts Author's name / Social Counter

Hi,
I’ve been using Newspaper for a local news outlet, and I’ve noticed that some features are working in a somewhat unusual way, and I’m not sure they’re showing their correct behaviour. The website is http://www.dietrolequinteonline.it but right now is not public yet.

– Is there a way to show the author name on the Custom Template Headers?
Some authors pointed out that in contrast to the default header template, the theme header templates were missing the author’s name near the category, which as you may imagine, is creating a bit of “political” issues between the authors when some posts are published for various reasons with different headers. is there a way to show the author’s name for those templates?

– Also right now the “Social Counter” widget shows just a single facebook follower, while the actual page actually sports an higher number.
Is that a bug? or is it due to the website using a “maintenance mode” plugin right now (specifically WP Maintenance Mode)?

Hi guys,

I just saw on Google Webmaster Tools that my site has almost 100 errors in Structured Data > hentry section. The Error is “Missing: Author”.
I googled the issue and found this article:
http://www.acceleratormarketing.com/trench-report/google-analytics-errors-and-structured-data/

In the article they recommend to fix the single.php file by finding the following: <?php the_author(); ?> and changing it to: <span class=”vcard author post-author”><span class=”fn”><?php the_author(); ?></span></span>

I couldn’t find that line in the theme’s single.php file.

What’s the solution to fixing this?

Thanks!

Thanks!

Hi again – I changed the loop-single.php as instructed 3 days ago, and check now with google tools and I even got more new “Missing: Author” errors…

Any idea what to do?

Thanks!

Hi guys – the “Missing: Author” errors are piling up on my google tools.

Can you please tell me what to do?

As mentioned – I changed the loop-single.php as you instructed, but it’s not changing the situation…

Thanks!

Hi there,

Thanks for the reply.
First of all – what do you mean by “if you have enabled the author”??
I haven’t enabled anything that has to do with “author” since installing the theme,
is there something I am missing?

Well, I followed your advise and replaced the line in the loop-single-1.php as well.

But when I wanted to replace it also in the Single_Template-2, Single_Template-3 and so on,
I noticed it’s not the same lines as in the loop-single files.
The lines in the Single_Template files are like this:

<header>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_title();?>

<div class=”meta-info”>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_category();?>
<?php //echo $td_mod_single->get_author();?>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_date(false);?>
<?php echo $td_mod_single->get_commentsAndViews();?>
</div>
</header>

So should I replace the line: echo $td_mod_single->get_author(); in the exact same way in these files as I did in the loop-single files?

The URL for the site is this:
http://www.cobras.org

Thanks!

Hi Lucian,

Thanks for the reply.
Sorry – I gave you the wrong URL, the wordpress theme is on this URL:
http://cobras.org/Home/
From my latest check on webmaster tools there are 96 Missing Author errors:
http://www.screencast.com/t/xdpzARo76c

Can you please elaborate on what it means to “enable the author”??

So should I replace these lines: <?php //echo $td_mod_single->get_author();?>
in each of the Single_Templates you mentioned with this line:
?> <span class=”vcard author post-author”><span class=”fn”> <?php echo $td_mod_single->get_author(); ?> </span></span> <?php

??

Thanks!

Hi Lucian,

Thanks for the answer.

Two things:

1) Well I don’t understand how you get to your results of no errors for my site, because when I go into my Google Webmaster Tools, into: Structured Data > hentry, then I currently get 55 errors. This a screenshot of part of them. All errors are the MISSING AUTHOR.
http://www.screencast.com/t/uyTH9gxyB3v

2) The issue of td_d_slug page: I deleted all the pages and posts from the Demo long time ago, but there is something strange – as if the theme is automatically creating pages by it’s own?!?! I just noticed in Google Webmaster Tools, in the Crawl Errors, a list of 159 URL errors, most of them td_d_slug pages counting upwards. You can see these in this screenshot:
http://www.screencast.com/t/M9ldP8cLt
I never created these td_d_slug pages and can’t find them anywhere in my system.

I can see on that list many pages I deleted in the past, and they do not exist anymore on my wordpress. Is there a way to permanently delete these pages from the web?

Thanks!

Hi Lucian,

Thanks for the detailed explanations.

As you requested – here’s the screenshot of one of the missing author error window:
http://www.screencast.com/t/m0JeJdvq5k

I enabled the author box for now, but it’s not a feature I want to be present on each post – is there a way around it that it doesn’t need to show on each post?

Thanks!