Author Box on Pages above Comments

[Mane60]

I raised this question with support, and Jennifer answered me very quickly to solve it. She also suggested it would be a good topic for the forum, so here it is:

I was trying to get the Author Box to show on pages as well as posts.

I added the following to functions.php so that pages could show an authorbox.

/** Add Genesis Author Box on Single Pages**/
add_action('genesis_after_post', 'genesis_do_author_box_page');
function genesis_do_author_box_page() {
$page_exclusions = array('about-me','Contact'); //edit these pages, can take slugs, page names, or page/post ID
if ( ( !is_page() ) || is_page($page_exclusions) )
return;
if ( get_the_author_meta( 'genesis_author_box_single', get_the_author_meta('ID') ) ) {
genesis_author_box( 'single' );
}
}
I found the method here:

http://wpsmith.net/2011/genesis/add-the-genesis-author-box-to-pages/

Unfortunately, the authorbox showed up below comments on pages, which wasn't ideal.

To get it above the comments, you can use a priority to try to move it where you want. In this case, 5 is the priority number. So we edit just one line of the above code to add the priority:

add_action('genesis_after_post', 'genesis_do_author_box_page', 5);

I hope this helps someone out there. 🙂

[Mane60]

Oh, you can see the result here:

http://www.moneyhow.co.uk/what-are-my-pension-fund-choices-when-i-retire/

[Dan B]

Thanks Mane60. Just a note for all future forum searchers:

1) Be sure you have globally enabled the Author Box in your theme (if it's not already so), otherwise the instructions above have no effect.

2) Ensure you have copied the code in the proper format. I copied, originally, from the post above and had formatting errors (with all the 's turning into ’s). You can prevent this by getting the code directly from http://wpsmith.net/2011/genesis/add-the-genesis-author-box-to-pages/

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Dan @ ZindaMedia
Marketing, Fundraising and Social Media strategies for non-profits.

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