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  • November 5, 2014 at 4:48 am #346346
    sasusc

    Hello,

    I’m using Enfold with a child theme. I’m currently collecting the names of post authors via a custom field instead of using WordPress’ native author system. How do I display the custom field’s contents instead of the current setting, which displays the WordPress author?

    Thanks in advance for any help!

    November 5, 2014 at 7:40 pm #346721
    Elliott

    Hey sasusc!

    Try adding this to the bottom of your /enfold/functions.php file,

    add_filter( 'the_author_posts_link', 'customization_change_author' );
function customization_change_author( $link ) {
	global $post;
	$author = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'custom_author', true );
	if ( $author != null ) { return $author; } else { return $link; }
}

    And change “custom_author” to whatever key your custom field is set to.

    Best regards,
    Elliott

    February 3, 2015 at 5:53 am #389844
    sasusc

    Sorry for the delay, but this worked perfectly. Thank you for the help!

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