Customizing the Byline | PenciDesign Support

punkrot replied

8 years ago

Customer Reply

This pretty much does the trick. Add a custom field named image_credit (value = the photographer's name) if you want to list an unlinked name, and image_credit_id (value = user ID) if you want to have the author's name linked to their author archive.

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<?php
$imageCredit = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image_credit', true);
$imageCreditId = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image_credit_id', true);

if ($imageCreditId) { ?>
| images by <a class="author-url" href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url( $imageCreditId ); ?>">
<?php echo get_the_author_meta('display_name', 1); ?>

\

<?php
} elseif ($imageCredit) { ?>
| images by <?php echo $imageCredit; ?>
}

\

<?php } else { // do nothing; }
?>

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If you want to link posts to the photographer, you'll need to use the Co-Authors Plus plugin. And actually, if you use it instead of the hocus-pocus above, you can just use this code snippet:

<?php coauthors_posts_links(' and ', ' | images by ', 'written by ', '', true); ?>

If you go this route, just make sure that the photographer is the last person on the author's list.

punkrot replied

8 years ago

Customer Reply

Never mind, I figured it out myself.

For anyone else who's interested in this mod, you'll need to get freaky with the PHP in content-single-full.php — or at least that's the one that did it for me based on my theme settings. Other files you may need to putz around with include content-single.php, content-standard.php, and/or content-classic.php.

You're looking for the labeled with the class "author-post." Pulling up a custom field requires the following code:

<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'key', true); ?>

Where key = the name of your custom field.

Depending on how deep you want to go with built-in WP functions and whatnot, you can create some fairly elegant solutions using this as a springboard. If I come up with something slick, I'll post it here for other folks.

And for the record, not thrilled with the support from PenciDesign on this. "You'll need to hire a developer." Yeah, thanks.

PenciDesign replied

8 years ago

Staff Reply

Hi,

For single post page:

1/ You can copy content-single.php ( style 1 ) or content-single-full.php ( for style 2 )

2/ For posts layouts, it's based on the layout you're using. Example: If you're using layout Grid, let's check it via content-grid.php

Best Regards,

PenciDesign

punkrot replied

8 years ago

Customer Reply

I am a web developer, I just don't know which file to copy over into the child theme. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. I can create custom fields, but I'm not sure which theme file is outputting the metadata at the top of each post.

PenciDesign replied

8 years ago

Staff Reply

Hi,

Unfortunately, if you want to do that, you need to hire a web developer to help you. As I knew, no any wordpress theme on Envato supports this feature from itself.

Best Regards,

PenciDesign

punkrot started the conversation

8 years ago

Conversation Start

I'm building a site where text and photos are often provided by different people. I want to make it so that the post meta section says, "text by Person X | photos by Person Y."

What's the best way to do that?

Thanks,
—Peter