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  • March 22, 2017 at 7:43 am #764630
    architchandra

    On single blog posts, I want to replace the author name with a custom-field called guest-author such that the guest-author name appears on the post and on the blog page whenever there is an entry in the guest-author field. If the field is empty, WordPress should use the default author field only.

    I found a tutorial online for this, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Also, I checked the code in single.php and couldn’t figure out how to edit it to help with this.

    add_filter( ‘the_author’, ‘guest_author_name’ );
    add_filter( ‘get_the_author_display_name’, ‘guest_author_name’ );
    function guest_author_name( $name ) {
    global $post;
    $author = get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘guest-author’, true );
    if ( $author )
    $name = $author;
    return $name;
    }

    Please suggest how I can make this change.

    March 23, 2017 at 11:12 am #765312
    Victoria

    Hey architchandra,

    Have you created that additional field and does this function give any error?

    
add_filter( ‘the_author’, ‘guest_author_name’ );
add_filter( ‘get_the_author_display_name’, ‘guest_author_name’ );
function guest_author_name( $name ) {
    global $post;
    $author = get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘guest-author’, true );

    if ( !empty($author) )
         return $author;

    return $name;
}

    Try adjusting the code like this.

    Best regards,
    Victoria

    August 27, 2019 at 12:55 pm #1131309
    marcoabis81

    Hi Victoria,
    How can I change only for specific posts the wording By “author name” with >>>> translated by “author name” and also changing the author name depending on who the person who translated the post is?

    Thanks,
    Marco

    August 29, 2019 at 11:19 am #1131853
    Ismael

    Hi,

    Thank you for the update.

    You have to edit that directly from includes > loop-index.php file. Look for this code around line 317:

    echo '<span class="blog-author minor-meta">'.__('by','avia_framework')." ";

    We’re not quite sure about your next inquiry though. How do you translate the posts?

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    August 29, 2019 at 1:52 pm #1131876
    marcoabis81

    Hi Ismael,
    I would like to change the wording “by” with “translated by” not on all posts, only on the ones translated from a language to another. Is your code changing the wording on all posts?

    I found the answer for the second question, I can change manually the author :-)

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by marcoabis81.
    September 2, 2019 at 3:38 am #1132772
    Ismael

    Hi,

    Thank you for the update.

    Are you using W P M L? You can use this function to check if the current post has a translation or not.

    // http://hookr.io/functions/icl_object_id/

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    September 2, 2019 at 4:09 pm #1133047
    marcoabis81

    Hi Ismael,
    I would like just to change that wording on some posts. I do not need to check if the post has a translation.

    Example: I have a post in Italian, I pay someone for translating it for me. I would like to show that post with the wording “translated by” instead of just the name of the author.

    Thanks
    Marco

    September 3, 2019 at 4:32 am #1133181
    Ismael

    Hi,

    Do you want to add another name beside the author? Maybe you can use custom fields for that. This plugin might help.

    // https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/

    Enable the plugin, edit the post, add a custom field called “translated_by” and use the name of the translator as the value. In the includes > loop-index.php, get the custom field using the get_field function. Above this code:

    
echo '<span class="blog-author minor-meta">'.__('by','avia_framework')." ";

    ..add this:

    $translated_by = get_field('translated_by');
                        echo '<span class="blog-translator minor-meta">'.__('translated by','avia_framework')." ";
                        echo '<span class="entry-translator">';
                        if($translated_by) echo $translated_by;
                        echo '</span></span>';

    // https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/get_field/

    Best regards,
    Ismael

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