Adding Twitter Icon to Author Byline Below Post Title

Looking for some guidance on adding the author’s twitter icon (the one located in the author box) to the author byline located beneath the title of the post. Ideally, we’d like to have the icon to the right of the authors name? Any guidance you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Positioning is not an issue.

How can I hide the icon if the author does not have a twitter account linked to their author meta?

Thanks

$td_a_target = ' target="_blank"';
$authorMeta = get_the_author_meta('twitter');

if ($authorMeta != "") {
    $buffy .= '<span class="td-social-icon-wrap td-twitter-author"><a' . $td_a_target . ' href="' . $authorMeta . '" title="Twitter"><i class="td-icon-font td-icon-twitter"></i></a></span>';
}

Add an if statement after you grab the author meta field to check if it exists first, then if it does, add the icon. That basically says, “If $authorMeta variable is not empty, then do $buffy.” And if it is empty (i.e., author has not entered a Twitter handle) it’ll do nothing extra.

Just a tip. Might take a look at if statements on php.net for more.

Thanks a lot.

I was close, I was trying to add the if statement inside the $buffy and it was breaking it.

Thanks again.

Has this process changed at all?

Trying to get the Twitter icon to appear in the byline next to the author like this:https://imgur.com/a/gtVo5tR