Hello,
The Newspaper theme we recently launched is not always displaying a custom taxonomy that we use for a post author/byline. As a student newspaper, we use this custom taxonomy due to the hundreds of student contributors that have written one or more articles over the years. This ‘byline’ taxonomy works just like a tag.
The theme displays the correct author name on individual posts, but not in other areas of the website. There are two different issues related to this, so we were hoping to get some clarification on how to display the correct name of the writer of a post.
Here is an example of the correct byline in a post:
https://www.globeslcc.com/2020/01/28/letter-from-the-editor-sundance-preview/
The writer is listed correctly (Amie Schaeffer) and links to other bylines she has on the website.
Below are two examples where this information is not displaying correctly:
1. On the home page: http://www.globeslcc.com/
In any of the Flex box sections, when the ‘Show Author’ element is turned on in the ‘Layout’ tab of TD Composer, it displays the post author WordPress account instead of the byline taxonomy associated with a post. This occurs in every type of flex box on the home page, so we turned this setting off on most boxes.
You can see Amie’s article in the Opinion flex box, which is displaying who uploaded the article (Megan Neff).
2. On our category pages: http://www.globeslcc.com/opinion/
In the “big grid flex” module at the top of the page, the most recent article is displaying a different byline (Cristobal Villegas) from an article beneath the flex box. This occurs on every category page with a big grid flex box.
This ‘byline’ taxonomy is being implemented through the following plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/byline/
As you can see, the byline loads correctly in some places on the website, but not others. Any suggestions for how to consistently display this taxonomy within all areas of the theme would be appreciated.
Please let us know what other information you might need. Thank you.
Hi,
Please notice that we did not tested the byline plugin with our theme and therefore, we cannot say for sure if it will work or not as expected with the theme, also, we do not know the behavior of this plugin or how it should integrate to work, sorry! Also, we cannot provide support for untested plugins.
Also the modules from the flex blocks are made to display the author how publish the post, in order to make it you recognize the plugin that you are using you need to make some changes in theme files.
Thank you for your understanding!
