"By line" next to published date in article view + on homepage (module 9)

Hi there,

So I was wondering whether you would add an important feature: “by line” to aforementioned module 9 + article view (and to everything else to be honest). I feel like the author box isn’t cutting it in terms of who wrote the article (I’d rather had it turned off), so a nice little “by line” would be great. Every single big tech blog site uses it and it should be available in your great theme too!

Also, instead of just showing the date the article was published on (article view) it would be nice to have something like “Published on” just in front of it, follow by “by” and author’s name. So all in all, it would look like this: Published on 13/10/2013 by iOSPortalSK (iOSPortal being hyperlinked to authors profile).

Let me know what you think and thanks in advance! 🙂

Hi, we need this feature desperately as well … I thought I had put in a ticket about this, but now can’t find it. All traditional magazines (I’ve worked at many over the past 30 years, being a middle aged guy now) and newspapers put a byline at top of article to show who it’s written by and also most traditional WP themes have this option for the index views of content, so that somebody who wanted to read something by a particular author would see their name (the average person might be more interested in the name of the writer than how many views it’s had on an index page of book reviews, for example).

eg.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/books/oscar-hijuelos-cuban-american-writer-who-won-pulitzer-dies-at-62.html?ref=books&_r=0

Chris

I had a quick look at their other themes and they did include the by line in them, so I am not sure why they haven’t done the same thing here. Hey, let’s hope the devs are listening. If they don’t want it to be the default setting, they can always add an option in the admin menu, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves here.

My point is, we shouldn’t need to decomment anything, i.e. do any hardcoding to activate it. The same goes with my homepage, I’d like to have the information who has written those articles. If you don’t want a lot of text there, my suggestion would be to use little icons, so little icon of clocks for date and time, you have got the eye for views and comment bubbles for commnents and perhaps a little icon of an user or a little person for the author.

All I am saying is, this is a must and I still can’t understand why it still isn’t included in version 1.5.

HI, all
this really should at least be a standard “on” option for the posts page, if nothing else, since ALL newspapers post a byline for a story, and this is the main point of this theme!

I realize you have lots of other stuff on the to do list, but I’d move this one up a little higher as any “real” magazine or newspaper site that isn’t being setup for content spam MUST have bylines for each article.

Thanks! 🙂

+1

To clarify:
for us, we MUST HAVE the byline on the actual posts … regardless of any functionality on categories, tags, homepage, or other blocks.

ALL articles should have byline at top as the author box traditionally is intended to be an “also ran” for a mini-bio about the author, and not to identify who authorized the story. With a 3,200 word article, the byline needs to be at top to clearly identify the AUTHOR of an article.

Willing to pay to get this done!

Chris

I went ahead and modified the module 1 file and it works. Thanks.

Hi Chris,

Would you consider sharing your modification, as it seems the authors of this theme just ignored us.

Thanks,
Lukas

HI, iOSPortalSK
you need to comment out the line in the module as noted in Marius’ prior reply, at least for now. Note this mod only works on adding byline to the post page, not any of the “modules” for the indexes.

See his prior image, above in this thread

–snip–

Just de-comment this line. In Module 1 is for post. http://screencast.com/t/kB49r8NgH

-/snip–

look in

/theme/includes/app/modules/

open td_module_1.php

uncomment: $buffy .= $this->get_author();

=============

it just occurred to me this morning that one could uncomment the same element on other modules.

Presumably with the hook in there, they could add this as an “option” toggle as they do with the get_commentsAndViews …

I would also recommend adding a folder called /mods/ in your root for the theme, and put backups of your mod files there (meaning the files you make mods to – put the MODIFIED versions in there). This is a handy reminder when you go to do a manual update via FTP, to go “oh. duh. I need to over-write the new files with my mod files…”

Obviously, child theme support for these elements via functions.php would be preferable, but I haven’t gotten that far.

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Awesome! many thanks for your instructions, I will give it a go and I’ll let you how I got on.

Authors, take note of how customer service should look like.

Actually, Marius from tagDiv *did* put the instructions in his reply to the original query. So far everybody at tagDiv has been doing pretty well in replying and responding to fixes for a work in progress. They are doing a tremendous job; and I particularly admire them for doing a very hard thing with modern responsive design — I know, we tried to build our own similar to this recently and literally lost some hair over it. Even for a static B2B site we’re redoing (our main site that pays the bills), dealing with responsive + HTML5 + PageSpeed + CSS/js optimization is a nightmare to “do it right.” I’ve suffered a LOT of poor coding, bloated frameworks on top of WordPress that get abandoned or won’t update, custom panels that break, and hideous custom hooks that modify WP dbases with additional fields that are not needed, and won’t go away when changing themes, etc. — So far these folk are doing a GREAT job, in my opinion, so be sure to show them the love whenever possible. Just sayin’.

I do agree with you, Newspaper is one of the best looking themes out there and I totally dig the reponsiveness on different screen sizes. I’ve had the opportunity to try out different “premium” themes, which were a nightmare to customise. This is by far the best modern theme that I’ve tried.

Bit more refining and it will beat anything else out there.