Comments on: Guest Posts And the_author() In Your WordPress Blog http://www.flowdrops.com/blog/wordpress/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/ Designer, WordPress Coder, Deejay, Buddhist, Swiss, Thai. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:22:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Pete http://www.flowdrops.com/blog/wordpress/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-2416 Pete Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:26:24 +0000 http://www.flowdrops.com/2008/08/18/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-2416 @ Mark Thanks for the input. Your third comment would be a nice solution! @Ammar Awaad Maybe your theme uses another function call to display the Author's name. Also see: <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author</a> @ Mark

Thanks for the input. Your third comment would be a nice solution!

@Ammar Awaad

Maybe your theme uses another function call to display the Author’s name. Also see:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author

]]> By: Ammar Awaad http://www.flowdrops.com/blog/wordpress/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-2413 Ammar Awaad Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:25:58 +0000 http://www.flowdrops.com/2008/08/18/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-2413 I have searched all the files in my theme folder but could not find a single occurrence of ‘the_author()’. Is this normal? Hence i still show up as the author of the post. I have searched all the files in my theme folder but could not find a single occurrence of ‘the_author()’. Is this normal? Hence i still show up as the author of the post.

]]> By: Mark http://www.flowdrops.com/blog/wordpress/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-2412 Mark Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:53:49 +0000 http://www.flowdrops.com/2008/08/18/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-2412 Sorry, I keep coming back with second thoughts. The most elegant workaround for author archives would probably be to make one other guest account and assign all guest posts to this account; then getting the custom fields if they are set, and otherwise <code>the_author()</code>. Sorry, I keep coming back with second thoughts. The most elegant workaround for author archives would probably be to make one other guest account and assign all guest posts to this account; then getting the custom fields if they are set, and otherwise the_author().

]]> By: Mark http://www.flowdrops.com/blog/wordpress/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-2411 Mark Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:47:56 +0000 http://www.flowdrops.com/2008/08/18/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-2411 (In fact you do have author archives automatically — http://www.flowdrops.com/blog/author/Pete/ ) (In fact you do have author archives automatically — http://www.flowdrops.com/blog/author/Pete/ )

]]> By: Mark http://www.flowdrops.com/blog/wordpress/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-2410 Mark Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:46:52 +0000 http://www.flowdrops.com/2008/08/18/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-2410 Neat workaround for the template tags, but what about Author archives? If you would have them, surely the guest post would be included on your author archive. Perhaps a workaround might be to drop posts for which $guestname is set — or to mark them in a special way. Neat workaround for the template tags, but what about Author archives? If you would have them, surely the guest post would be included on your author archive.

Perhaps a workaround might be to drop posts for which $guestname is set — or to mark them in a special way.

]]> By: Pete http://www.flowdrops.com/blog/wordpress/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-2273 Pete Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:17:56 +0000 http://www.flowdrops.com/2008/08/18/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-2273 @Warren In my previous theme I had two occurrences of 'the_author()' (index.php, single.php). In the WordPress default theme (themes/default) is only one occurrence (index.php). So, a manual replace is done within one or two minutes. If you have access to a HTML Editor such as Dreamweaver, there is usually a search/replace function available which will do the magic for you. The reason to replace the function call is that we cannot declare two functions with the same name, hence the new function name 'theAuthor()' because 'the_author()' is already declared in the WordPress core files (wp-includes/author-template.php). HTH @Warren

In my previous theme I had two occurrences of ‘the_author()’ (index.php, single.php). In the WordPress default theme (themes/default) is only one occurrence (index.php). So, a manual replace is done within one or two minutes. If you have access to a HTML Editor such as Dreamweaver, there is usually a search/replace function available which will do the magic for you.

The reason to replace the function call is that we cannot declare two functions with the same name, hence the new function name ‘theAuthor()’ because ‘the_author()’ is already declared in the WordPress core files (wp-includes/author-template.php).

HTH

]]> By: Warren Stewart http://www.flowdrops.com/blog/wordpress/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-2272 Warren Stewart Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:48:15 +0000 http://www.flowdrops.com/2008/08/18/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-2272 This is a very useful hack. I haven't managed to make it work on the blog I'm building - but then I'm very new to this. A question: "Next I replaced all occurences of ‘the_author()’ in the theme files with ‘theAuthor()’" Why is this necessary? How many occurances a 'the_author()' are there in the theme files? This seems like a tremendous amount of work compared to the very elegant one-step conditional hack for the function.php. Or am I missing something? Thanks you for clarifying. This is a very useful hack. I haven’t managed to make it work on the blog I’m building – but then I’m very new to this.

A question:
“Next I replaced all occurences of ‘the_author()’ in the theme files with ‘theAuthor()’”

Why is this necessary? How many occurances a ‘the_author()’ are there in the theme files? This seems like a tremendous amount of work compared to the very elegant one-step conditional hack for the function.php. Or am I missing something?

Thanks you for clarifying.

]]> By: Gouri http://www.flowdrops.com/blog/wordpress/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-2248 Gouri Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:00:01 +0000 http://www.flowdrops.com/2008/08/18/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-2248 How did you know that I was looking out for this? :-) Perfect solution for single author blogs with occasional guest posts. Why don't you convert it into a plugin? How did you know that I was looking out for this? :-) Perfect solution for single author blogs with occasional guest posts. Why don’t you convert it into a plugin?

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]]> By: Sebastian http://www.flowdrops.com/blog/wordpress/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-1954 Sebastian Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:04:10 +0000 http://www.flowdrops.com/2008/08/18/guest-posts-and-the_author-in-your-wordpress-blog/#comment-1954 Very nice, very quick... Thanks for sharing :) For some reason, even when I add a new contributor account, and add an article under another author, the_author still displays the main admin account as the author... But your method fixes that! Very nice, very quick… Thanks for sharing :)

For some reason, even when I add a new contributor account, and add an article under another author, the_author still displays the main admin account as the author… But your method fixes that!

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