In the article creation view, there is a slot for the article heading. However, I haven’t found a way to add the name of the author right below the heading – as in the following example:
THE PERILS OF ANARCHY
Joseph Freeman
Thanks in advance for guidance.
You’ll need to create a child theme and then edit the “loop-single.php” file. If you’re familiar with coding, this should be a piece of cake, but if not, you might need to get someone else to look at it.
Documentation: https://forum.tagdiv.com/child-theme-documentation/
Hi, @Vesa
I’m not sure i understand your question, can you show me in a screenshot? Do you need on post title to have the author name? Do you have this settings on: http://screencast.com/t/4UedixT3F
Thanks!
Hi @gossiponthis and @Marius
Yes, I seemed to have missed the setting Marius mentioned. Now there is a “by <author>” field visible under the post title. However, there are still two problems:
1) In Finnish, we do not use “by” 🙂 Just a place for the author’s name is what I need.
2) Typically, the author is someone else than the one who posts the article. For example, I will be publishing contributors’ texts on our WordPress-powered site. *Their* names should appear in the author field, not that of the post editor/publisher.
Thanks again!
Hi,
1. Please edit td_module.php like this: http://screencast.com/t/7EKqHSyMjf
2. A contributor is only capable to delete/edit and read posts: http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Contributor so if you want them to also publish posts you should change the role to author or editor.
You can also use this option to set the posts author: http://screencast.com/t/kc8qvDy4hoBr so you would chose to which author the content of the post belongs too.
Thanks!
Thank you Alin,
That gets rid of “by” in the author field.
By “contributor” I actually meant anyone who just sends his/her text to me for publishing and gets it published.
So if, say, a human rights activist (with no editing or other rights on our site) sends me her text with the intent of having it published and I decide to publish it, I’d like her name to appear under the heading as the author.
Hi,
Unfortunately the theme doesn’t have an option that allows you to do that besides the one to set the posts author: http://screencast.com/t/kc8qvDy4hoBr which Alin also mentioned above.
If that doesn’t help you with this you would have to search for a plugin to help you with this.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Thanks for the message!
Thank you, Lucian!
I think that the ability to add *any* person’s name right below the article heading as the article’s author is a very common requirement (think all the news articles, opinion pieces and blog posts in the media the world over) and that the theme would greatly profit from its inclusion among its features.
Hi,
I will add your suggestion to our feature request list and if more people request this we will consider it for future updates.
Thanks for the menage!
That’s good to hear, Lucian!
I’d like to mention that a programmer friend just noted that this (the ability to add any name, ie any character combination, in the article author field) would be “pretty much an essential feature” (translation from his Finnish).
I realized (and tested) one solution to this. I can simply create users with the names of the persons who email me their texts for publication, and then select the right name as the author of the article when I publish the text.
When creating such users, I can select the role “Contributor” for them to distinguish them from users with other roles or users with actual credentials on our site.
Having to create an entry for each new author takes a moment, but will add to creating a potentially useful index of all people who have had texts published.
