Remove and edit meta data under post in blog posts view - Support

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January 2, 2015 at 12:03 am #373968

enester1
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Hi,

I have my site set up in a grid with the title and a read more link. Under the title, comment count and date are displayed. How can I edit this so that author and date are displayed?

screen shot: http://i.imgur.com/tDpZK3a.png

thanks,

evan

January 2, 2015 at 12:07 am #373969

enester1
Participant

sorry wrong screen shot above

here is correct one: http://i.imgur.com/dSnX80W.png

January 2, 2015 at 5:51 pm #374112
Elliott
Inactive Moderator
Hey!

Open up /enfold/config-templatebuilder/avia-shortcodes/postslider.php and on lines 378 – 384 you should see this.
```
if ( $commentCount != "0" || comments_open($the_id) && $entry->post_type != 'portfolio')
{
	$link_add = $commentCount === "0" ? "#respond" : "#comments";
	$text_add = $commentCount === "1" ? __('Comment', 'avia_framework' ) : __('Comments', 'avia_framework' );

	$output .= "<div class='slide-meta-comments'><a href='{$link}{$link_add}'>{$commentCount} {$text_add}</a></div><div class='slide-meta-del'>/</div>";
}
```
Change it to this.
```
$output .= '<span class="blog-author minor-meta">'.__('by','avia_framework')." ";
$output .= '<span class="entry-author-link" '.avia_markup_helper(array('context' => 'author_name','echo'=>false)).'>';
$output .= '<span class="vcard author"><span class="fn">';
$output .= get_the_author_link();
$output .= '</span></span>';
$output .= '</span>';
$output .= "<div class='slide-meta-del'>/</div>";
```
Cheers!
Elliott
July 27, 2015 at 4:58 am #478874

carendavis
Participant

Hi there – I would like to do this same thing – although I don’t need to remove comment count as I have disabled the comments on my posts, but I would love to show the author of each post on grid-view. What are the changes I would need to make? The lines mentioned above are different in my postslider.php
Thanks!

July 27, 2015 at 4:38 pm #479152

Elliott
Inactive Moderator

Hi!

On the latest version of the theme it’s lines 392 – 398.

Best regards,
Elliott

August 3, 2015 at 5:44 am #481865

carendavis
Participant

Thanks…it kinda worked, only – it is only showing one author for all posts, when all three of my posts have different authors assigned.
Any ideas? (Have included link to website, if you click into each post you will see each is by a different author, but only one of them is being displayed in grid view).
Thanks!

August 4, 2015 at 2:48 pm #482710
Elliott
Inactive Moderator
Hi!

Try this out instead.
```
$output .= '<span class="entry-author-link" '.avia_markup_helper(array('context' => 'author_name','echo'=>false)).'>';
$output .= '<span class="vcard author"><span class="fn">';
$author_id = get_post_field( 'post_author', $the_id );
$output .= '<a href = "'.get_author_posts_url( $author_id ).'">'.get_the_author_meta( 'user_nicename', $author_id ).'</a>';
$output .= '</span></span>';
$output .= '</span>';
$output .= "<div class='slide-meta-del'>/</div>";
```
Cheers!
Elliott
August 5, 2015 at 12:48 am #483039

carendavis
Participant

Great thanks! Again, this ALMOST works…it only shows the authors first name though, and in lowercase. Would prefer full name and with each first letter being Caps (ie John Smith). See previous link to page to see what I mean!
Thankyou!

August 5, 2015 at 5:05 pm #483495

tom_boz
Participant

Hey there, I am trying to do the same and I confirm it only works partially.
As Carendavis says, the output is not correct: for example I get “admin” instead of the admin’s “Name Surname” as it should be.
Elliott it would be great if you could help us to solve this, thank you!

August 6, 2015 at 3:18 pm #483932
Elliott
Inactive Moderator
Hi!

On this part.
```
$output .= '<a href = "'.get_author_posts_url( $author_id ).'">'.get_the_author_meta( 'user_nicename', $author_id ).'</a>';
```
Try changing “user_nicename” to “display_name”.

You can see how the function works here, https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_author_meta.

Best regards,
Elliott
August 6, 2015 at 6:00 pm #484070

tom_boz
Participant

It works, thank you ;)
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