@A.Mason The default theme post templates can be edited in a child theme, meaning all the single and loop-single files corresponding to the post templates. So for post templates you can make modifications in the child theme.
Module files can also be modified in a child theme, the general module file from the booster folder (td_module.php) cannot be however. I believe that will be the only file you cannot modify in a child theme in order to implement the co-authors.
But you can modify it in the main theme, and make a backup of it. Next time the theme is updated, check the modified files list. If that file was not modified, replace it with your modified version.
I’m understand, but this is awkward after any theme upgrade.
I don’t know where is and how works this funcion, but it is impossible to change only function $get_author (which is used in modules and templates)?
That will be the case, at the moment the theme does not have a default solution for multiple post authors, just like default WordPress. I can’t say exactly if this will be considered for implementation, it could be in the future. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Thank You for information. It would be good if You develop a solution that will cause the plugin to work with your template.
When visit the Author page …/author/… at the top I do not see name and avatar of the guest user, OK its posts.
Still in the Author page …/author/… at the top, count number of Post and Comments refer to the Admin user.
No one?
No one? Please let me know.
At this point only one of our users can help as this implementation was never officially tested. We cannot provide any official implementation for co-authors. This topic presents a customization method but we(tagdiv) cannot elaborate on it as customization services are not covered by the theme support.
Thank you for understanding.
I want to integrate co-author plus plugin with newsmag theme.
But https://pastebin.com/7Y8kpfTy address doesn’t work for me. “This site can’t be reached.” Any help would be appreciated.
Please implement it in the theme by default <3
Please implement it in the theme by default <3
I think better option is to do not change/replace by TagDiv default author function of WordPress. This plugin works correct on “almost all” other themes ;-D
Vlad1984 solution works fine for me, except for guest author page (works but with few issues), which this solution doesn’t regretfully cover. Also it would be nice if an avatar solution but gravatar would be implemented.
Also join the request to implement this as theme default. Cheers!
We have two peer-review medical journals using the newspaper 9 theme and a majority of our content features multiple authors. tagDiv team, please consider making this a standardized feature in your theme. For a theme that attracted us based on its functionality and ease of use, this would be a great way to add value to your theme for magazine publishers.
For a year or so it worked fine for me to alter the files after every theme update as suggested. However, after one of the newest theme updates the file structure seems to have been altered. I cannot find the files, e.g. loop_single_1.php; single_template_2.php etc. any more. So, I suppose, there must be a new workaround. Since I am no php-expert, could anyone please help me. Otherwise I cannot use the updated theme and have to stick with an old one. We are a local newspaper, and using multiple-authors-function is essential.
Hi,
From what I know there are plans to make this plugin more compatible with the theme for easier integration, in a future update. Due to the recent updates however, this has become harder, we will try to find a solution for it
– https://tagdiv.com/updating-the-core-of-tagdiv-themes/
After theme update 9.7 many of the theme files have been moved in the tagDiv composer plugin, so the modifications would have to be done there now. The single files are here
– http://prntscr.com/njcz7o
Thanks
Thank you vlad1984 🙂
Simion,
I would like to apply co-author code to a custom single post template I created for my website. Where can I find files of the custom template?
Thanks!
Hi @Kazek,
The code of co authors from this topic is apply only to default post templates and not on cloud templates. You’ll need to check witch post template you are using and edit the according loop-single-n.php -> http://prntscr.com/oqdbl7 -> https://prnt.sc/oqdc25
Unfortunately the single post templates from tagDiv Cloud Library was not tested with this plugins, therefore we can not way for sure if those will work properly with theme or not, sorry!
If you want I can give it a try to check the files but I do not guarantee that this will work.
Thank you for your understanding!
Hi, I know how to implement coauthor for default post templates (it works fine), but I don’t know how to implement it for a post template created with cloud templates. It have to use similar code to display author name, description etc. on the website. I just don’t know where to find it. Any hints where to start, what to do?
It’s quite problematic that it’s impossible to modify default templates, and on the other hand cloud templates are quite limited in terms of customization of many functions.
Hi @Kazek,
Please reply on this topic -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/co-authors-plugin-code/
Thank you!
I read it, works fine for default templates. As I have mentioned in my previous post – I don’t know where in files is code responsible for selecting and displaying author for templates created with cloud template.
