Multiple Authors

[johnredfield]

Hi --

I'm using the focus theme and have been having trouble getting multiple authors of a post to show up in the meta data.

I have both 'Co Authors Plus' and 'Genesis Co Authors Plus' plugins installed with no luck.

Is anyone familiar with this?

Thanks!

http://www.fishlitigationblog.com

[Summer]

Did you add all of the code to your functions.php, and use Simple Edits to change the post info display?

This is what you need: http://vip.wordpress.com/documentation/incorporate-co-authors-plus-template-tags-into-your-theme/

I ran into the same problem when I first set those up, but not with multiple authors, just with a guest author showing up as the owner of the post instead of the post account author (the hazards of converting a lot of old content over to a new guest author method).

I also had to modify Genesis Co-Authors Plus to only display author boxes on Guest Authors, not on every single post by every single author ever on the site.

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[johnredfield]

Thank you Summer! This has really helped 🙂

[johnredfield]

So both authors are included now -- but the byline moved above the post meta: http://fishlitigationblog.com/?p=75

Any ideas on how to change that?

[Summer]

Are you using Simple Edits, or do you have that information moved around in your theme functions?

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[johnredfield]

I have Simple Edits, but am not using it... the authors appeared where they are currently after adding the code to the functions file. What do you think? 😐

[Summer]

If the plugin is enabled, you're using it... there's no other on/off switch for it 🙂

It looks like the authors are being added before the actual post-info section, but even with customizing that I don't see why the author info would be put outside the post-info section. Did you do any other customizations?

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[Summer]

Wait... on your other posts, the author is missing entirely. There must be something in functions that's doing that, or an aggressive configuration of Simple Edits?

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[johnredfield]

I don't know... I'm lost :-\

The authors weren't assigned on the other posts yet - so that's the issue there. I don't have the author shortcode in Simple Edits at all... So what is showing is from the functions file.

[canyouhearthis]

Which bit of code is it exactly here - http://vip.wordpress.com/documentation/incorporate-co-authors-plus-template-tags-into-your-theme/ - that i paste in. I'm using the Magazine theme.

http://www.canyouhearthis.co.uk

[Summer]

You might want to include all of it for the template tags to work. The most important filters are "List Authors in Genesis Post Info" and "Post Authors Post Link Shortcode". Make sure you use the Genesis ones and not the Thesis ones (I think they had Thesis examples in one of those snippets, so be careful).

Just paste them into your functions.php, and you should be fine.

You might also want to include this snippet:

add_filter( 'coauthors_guest_author_avatar_sizes', 'capx_avatar_sizes' );
function capx_avatar_sizes() {
    return array();
}

to prevent all your images from generating the tiny guest author feature image sizes on upload.

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