Show or Hide Author Box conditionally (based on post author)

[myersbr2]

We have a blog, http://www.humoroushomemaking.com, that I built by heavily customizing the Lifestyle theme. We periodically allow guest contributors. In all cases EXCEPT where we have a guest contributor, I want the author box on the bottom of the post. This is no problem. However, when we have a guest contributor, I don't add them as an official author but instead assign them to a user account we set up called "guest contributor". In these cases, I don't want the author box to show at the bottom of the post (or at all, for that matter). Is there a conditional statement I can build that will hide the author box when the author is "guest contributor"? An example post by a guest contributor can be found here: http://www.humoroushomemaking.com/we-make-too-much-money-to-be-broke-a-debt-free-story

http://www.humoroushomemaking.com

[Sandee]

Hi,

If you visit each user profile page on a Genesis site and scroll to the bottom, you'll see the ability to enable (or disable) the author box on the posts and / or author archive page on a per author basis.

Hope this helps.

Sandee

[myersbr2]

That's such a SIMPLE solution...and it works! Thank you Sandee!

[myersbr2]

Okay, scratch that - it doesn't work...when I uncheck the box in the user profile and hit Update User, it re-checks it. Hmmm... It does the same thing for any user I try to make that change. Other boxes can be checked/unchecked.

[Brad Dalton]

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[myersbr2]

I was able to get it figured out. Thanks to all who helped. Here's what I found. In my functions.php, I had:

//* Display author box on single posts
add_filter( 'get_the_author_genesis_author_box_single', '__return_true' );

This was keeping me from unchecking the box in the Users section of the wp-admin. I initially used Brad's statement to try and edit the rights, but quickly realized I could just remove the above statement entirely and the Users section Sandee mentioned would become editable again. Simple fix, just took me a while to get there...

Thanks to all!

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