ThemeShaper Forums Topic: Adding multiple authors

ThemeShaper Forums Topic: Adding multiple authors http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Tue, 21 May 2013 23:33:02 +0000 jgreenwood on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-17613 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:09:02 +0000 jgreenwood 17613@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Ah, the linking and styling was easier than expected; just use the $coauthors variable to fill in the link address and title blank spots, all wrapped in the appropriate span and link css class <pre><code>// add additional authors to posts function my_post_meta_authorlink() { global $authordata, $post; $coauthor = get_post_meta ($post->ID, 'Coauthors', true); $authorlink = '' . __('By ', 'thematic') . ''; $authorlink .= ''. '<a class="url fn n" href="'; $authorlink .= get_author_posts_url($authordata->ID, $authordata->user_nicename); $authorlink .= '" title="' . __('View all posts by ', 'thematic') . get_the_author_meta( 'display_name' ) . '">'; $authorlink .= get_the_author_meta( 'display_name' ); $authorlink .= '</a>'; if ($coauthor) { $authorlink .= ' and <a class="url fn n" href="/author/' . $coauthor . '" title="View all posts by ' . $coauthor . '">' . $coauthor . '</a>'; } $authorlink .= ''; return $authorlink; } add_filter('thematic_post_meta_authorlink','my_post_meta_authorlink');</code></pre> jgreenwood on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-17599 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:00:56 +0000 jgreenwood 17599@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Sweet, I've got the core functionality figured out, at least. I need to add style and also would like to make coauthors names link to their additional posts, but this keeps me publishing for yet another day and I can figure the rest out with time. NOTE this does NOT use the PLUGIN mentioned at start of this thread. This uses no plugin whatsoever, only added this inside my child theme's functions.php and use "Coauthors" as the name of the custom field in the posts. <pre><code>// add additional authors to posts where "Coauthors" is the custom field function my_post_meta_authorlink() { global $authordata, $post; $coauthor = get_post_meta ($post->ID, 'Coauthors', true); $authorlink = '' . __('By ', 'thematic') . ''; $authorlink .= ''. '<a class="url fn n" href="'; $authorlink .= get_author_posts_url($authordata->ID, $authordata->user_nicename); $authorlink .= '" title="' . __('View all posts by ', 'thematic') . get_the_author_meta( 'display_name' ) . '">'; $authorlink .= get_the_author_meta( 'display_name' ); $authorlink .= '</a>'; if ($coauthor) { $authorlink .= ', ' . $coauthor; } $authorlink .= ''; return $authorlink; } add_filter('thematic_post_meta_authorlink','my_post_meta_authorlink');</code></pre> Also please note there is likely some more efficient way of doing this; I am just a learn-as-I-go PHP guy, and this is working for me right here and now. Improvement suggestions very welcome! Cheers jgreenwood on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-17597 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:27:31 +0000 jgreenwood 17597@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ So my next thought is, can additional authors be added to a post using custom fields and then displayed publicly using thematic_post_meta_authorlink? Without using any plugin. If anyone knows this, please speak up! If I get it figured out, I will of course share my solution. Thanks! jgreenwood on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-17595 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 03:41:44 +0000 jgreenwood 17595@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Actually I decided to stop using this plugin ... thanks anyway. Cheers! jgreenwood on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-17573 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 06:50:08 +0000 jgreenwood 17573@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ @Chris Your functions.php snippet works for me! Thank you very much. But, it does not apply the link styles to the_coauthor(), namely the class="url fn n". Also, the post 'Edit' link does not appear after the '|' character. Thanks for any insight! Cheers, Joe petskratt on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-15802 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:14:03 +0000 petskratt 15802@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ ... and thanks to childtheme overrides you can achieve that also like this: <code> // support multiple authors using Co-Authors Plus plugin function childtheme_singleauthorlink () { global $authordata; $result = ''. '<a class="url fn n" href="'; $result .= get_author_posts_url($authordata->ID, $authordata->user_nicename); $result .= '" title="' . __('View all posts by ', 'thematic') . get_the_author() . '">'; $result .= get_the_author(); $result .= ''; return $result; } function childtheme_override_postmeta_authorlink() { $i = new CoAuthorsIterator(); if(function_exists('coauthors_posts_links')) { $authorlink = '' . _n('Author ', 'Authors ', $i->count(), 'childtextdomain') . ''; $i->iterate(); $authorlink .= childtheme_singleauthorlink (); while($i->iterate()){ if (!$i->is_last()) $authorlink .= ', '; else $authorlink .= __(' and ', 'childtextdomain'); $authorlink .= childtheme_singleauthorlink (); } $authorlink .= ''; } else { $authorlink = '' . __('By ', 'thematic') . ''; $authorlink .= childtheme_singleauthorlink (); } return apply_filters('thematic_post_meta_authorlink', $authorlink); } </code> Chris on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-6219 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:34:23 +0000 Chris 6219@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ No problem here. This is the code I used in my functions.php: <pre><code>function the_coauthor() { ob_start(); coauthors_posts_links(); $content = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); return $content; } function my_postmeta() { global $id, $post, $authordata; $postmeta = '<div class="entry-meta">'; $postmeta .= '' . __('By ', 'thematic') . ''; $postmeta .= ''; $postmeta .= the_coauthor(); $postmeta .= ' | '; $postmeta .= '' . __('Published: ', 'thematic') . ''; $postmeta .= '<abbr class="published" title="'; $postmeta .= get_the_time(thematic_time_title()) . '">'; $postmeta .= get_the_time(thematic_time_display()); $postmeta .= '</abbr>'; // Display edit link if (current_user_can('edit_posts')) { $postmeta .= ' | ' . '' . $posteditlink . ''; } $postmeta .= "</div>\n"; return $postmeta; } add_filter('thematic_postheader_postmeta', 'my_postmeta');</code></pre> Chris Kabitzin on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-6212 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:07:40 +0000 Kabitzin 6212@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ This seems to work but when saving the post, I get the following error: Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [mydomain child theme folder]/functions.php:103)in [mydomain]/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 865 The post shows up correctly in previews, but I get this error whenever I try to modify/save the post. Chris on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-6198 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:46:34 +0000 Chris 6198@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Without any warranty: Change the following code from Björn's guide: <pre><code>$postmeta .= ''; $postmeta .= __('By ', 'thematic') . '<a class="url fn n" href="'; $postmeta .= get_author_link(false, $authordata->ID, $authordata->user_nicename); $postmeta .= '" title="' . __('View all posts by ', 'thematic') . get_the_author() . '">'; $postmeta .= get_the_author(); $postmeta .= '</a> | ';</code></pre> to: <pre><code>$postmeta .= ''; $postmeta .= __('By ', 'thematic'); $postmeta .= the_coauthor(); $postmeta .= ' | ';</code></pre> Chris Kabitzin on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-6176 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:29:17 +0000 Kabitzin 6176@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ I pasted Chris' code as a function in my functions.php file in my child theme, and then copied and renamed the post header function, like in <a href="http://www.bendler.tv/?p=327">the guide</a>. However, I am not sure where to put "the_coauthors()" in the customized post_header function. mosesj on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-6171 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:04:08 +0000 mosesj 6171@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ I pasted the function in the functions.php file of my child theme, added "the_coauthors()" to my postheader, and it worked like a charm. Thanks so much! Kabitzin on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-6159 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:01:04 +0000 Kabitzin 6159@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Where would you put this code if you are using your own child theme? Chris on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-6141 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:10:33 +0000 Chris 6141@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Ok .. the code would be: <pre><code>function the_coauthor() { ob_start(); coauthors_posts_links(); $content = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); return $content; }</code></pre> You might want to add some more data to coauthors_posts_links() (see its documentation). the_coauthor will return the needed data to filter entry-meta. Haven't tested this code. Please let me know if it works. Chris Chris on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-6135 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:48:16 +0000 Chris 6135@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Hi, take a look here: <a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/using-wp-postratings#post-1732" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/using-wp-postratings#post-1732</a> The solution is similar. Will post the code for co-author plus later today. Chris Kabitzin on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-6133 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:57:27 +0000 Kabitzin 6133@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ I'm also interested in using the co-authors plus plugin. Unfortunately the plugin's functions do not seem to return a value, and so it doesn't look that easy to edit the thematic hooks-filter.php to return the multiple authors. mosesj on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-6127 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:54:41 +0000 mosesj 6127@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Could I trouble you to explain the no-so-favorite solution? I'm on deadline for a project and can't figure out how to make co-authors and Thematic play nice. Thanks. Chris on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-6068 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:16:17 +0000 Chris 6068@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ .. will contact the plugin author to provide a function that returns the value. There's another way to do this right now, but this is not my favorite way to solve this problem. Chris mosesj on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-6003 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:52:19 +0000 mosesj 6003@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Yes! I'm stumped with this problem, too. I'd be grateful if someone could help explain how to display co-authors within the Thematic framework. Best, Jacob neverknock on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-5333 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:30:31 +0000 neverknock 5333@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Here are the three plugins I know about: <a href="http://www.techspikes.com/2009/04/assign-multiple-authors-to-blog-posts/" rel="nofollow">http://www.techspikes.com/2009/04/assign-multiple-authors-to-blog-posts/</a> I'm not aware of another way. And it seems this discussion says as much: <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=514" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=514</a> Chris on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-5317 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:04:51 +0000 Chris 5317@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Don't you have any alternative to this plugin?? This plugins only echoes the results. You need something that returns a value. Chris neverknock on "Adding multiple authors" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-multiple-authors#post-5307 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:03:48 +0000 neverknock 5307@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ I'm stumped: I can't figure out how to use the "Co-author plus" plugin with in the Thematic-Acamas platform. It requires modifying code within template pages; however, the instructions are vague and don't correspond to the code I see in the templates. I'm grateful for any help you can provide. Thanks.