Hi there –
Just a quick suggestion that would be helpful for news sites and community sites with lots of guest authors:
Have the option to use the Source Name and Source URL fields to replace the “author” in the meta data for that article.
For example, if I have a guest author named Mike Smith, I’d add ‘Mike Smith’ as the Source and then his website in the Source URL. Even though I am publishing the post, the author would show as Mike Smith across the site.
This would make it so I don’t have to create a new User for Mike Smith just to post his article – which takes too long for sites with lots of guest posts.
It would also add a unique function to the Newspaper site and remove the need for the Guest Author plugin, which isn’t compatible with Newspaper at the moment.
Cheers! Dale
Actually, am I able to easily do this in a child theme by modifying this file?
What would I replace the author fields with?
Thanks!
Hi,
This is a good suggestion, I note it on our suggestion list.
Unfortunately I do not know if this can be implemented in child theme, maybe is possible with some custom work (replace the author fields with these from Source Name and Source URL ), but this is not covered by support theme, is a custom work.
If you want us to make this integration for you, you can check our custom services from here -> https://tagdiv.com/web-development-services/
Thank you fro your suggestion!
