Hello,

Thanks for your kind words about Narrator.

The theme does not output the post author anywhere. You can either use a plugin to do that (may require additional styling to blend into the looks of the theme), or if you just want to display the name of the author, you can do the following:

To display author name on the single blog post page, in your Admin Panel please go to ‘Appearance’ -> ‘Editor’, find the functions.php file on the right, and add the following code at the end of the file — just before the closing ?>. Feel free to change the Post by: text.

if (!function_exists('mauer_append_post_author_name')) :

	function mauer_append_post_author_name($content) {
		if(is_singular() && is_main_query()) {
			ob_start(); ?>
			<p><i>Post by: <?php the_author(); ?></i></p>
			<?php $new_content = ob_get_clean();
			$content .= $new_content;
		}
		return $content;
	}

endif;

add_filter('the_content', 'mauer_append_post_author_name', 1, 5);

The end result should look like his: screenshot.

Click the ‘Update file’ button.

Regards,
Paul

Hi Inga,

As of now, there are no plans of doing this. You can still use the tweak posted above though.

Kind regards,
Paul

Inga,

The mentioned tweak will add the name of the author styled the same way as the preceding body text.

Judging by the amount of pre-sale requests you have, I would suggest it would be useful for you to shop around and find a theme that suits your specifications out-of-the-box. I mean, with Narrator you will need to apply a certain amount of custom coding to make it what you want, which will take time.

Kind regards,
Paul

Hi Flash,

This should do the trick:

if (!function_exists('mauer_prepend_post_author_name')) :

	function mauer_prepend_post_author_name($html) {
		if(is_singular() && is_main_query()) {
			ob_start();
			$html = "<p class='mauer-post-author text-left'><i>Post by:" . get_the_author() . "</i></p>" . $html;
		}
		return $html;
	}

endif;

add_filter('post_thumbnail_html', 'mauer_prepend_post_author_name', 1, 5);

Style the .mauer-post-author class to your liking.

Regards,
Paul

• This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by Paul.

Hello,

I am sorry for the confusion. I wrote a lengthy message followed by the follow-up above, but somehow the first post didn’t get published.

First of all, thank you for creating Narrator. It has a superb design and you can tell you have put tons of work and love into it.

A friend of mine asked me to set up a WP blog for him and I suggested he buy Narrator at ThemeForest. He did and I am now installing it and trying to configure it. I hadn’t noticed the absence of a byline field, so it’s up to me to do it for him.

I have read the author-related posts on this forum, but I’m a newbie with PHP and I’m a bit confused.

Context

I’m using a Narrator child theme created with the most plugin Child Theme Configurator by Lilaea Media. As with every child theme, a small functions.php file is created which only includes the necessary enqueue functions to incorporate custom css styling.

So, I don’t know if I should edit the parent theme functions.php or the child theme functions.php when adding the code you suggested to prepend the author’s byline.

Also, your code seemes to add a filter for both post_thumbnail and the newly created prepend_post_author_name:

add_filter('post_thumbnail_html', 'mauer_prepend_post_author_name', 1, 5);

I have looked at Narrator’s functions.php and I don’t know where to put the snippet exactly. The closest I find is this:

if (!function_exists('mauer_narrator_width_attribute_removal')) :

	// This does not work for the already existing images.
	// A CSS solution has been implemented. This code is left here for the old browsers.
	function mauer_narrator_width_attribute_removal( $html ) {
		 $html = preg_replace( '/(width|height)="\d*"\s/', "", $html );
		 return $html;
	}

endif;

add_filter('post_thumbnail_html', 'mauer_narrator_width_attribute_removal', 100);
add_filter('image_send_to_editor', 'mauer_narrator_width_attribute_removal', 100);

And it leaves me very confused, because there is already a line with the add_filter(‘post_thumbnail_html’, string. Do I have to replace or add your code?

Please excuse my ignorance. I’m rather desperate. :_(

Thank you in advance for your time and help.

Very best,
Juan

Hi, Pavel

Please advise on how to make the post author show on the front page of Narrator Theme (in the big post and the secondary posts). I cannot do it without your help as the theme creator. You might consider inserting the author a non-supported customisation, but it is a fairly reasonable petition (no design or layout or module-related issues involved).

I’ve tried tweaking these two templates in the child editor theme…

content-big_latest.php
content-grid_2_cols.php

..but the same single-line code that works perfectly with single.php (see above) does not render the byline in those two templates.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

пожалуйста, я прошу Вас.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Anderson. I did try it with the true parameter at the end, but it still won’t show the author in the front page. I will keep trying, though, and I hope that Pavel can join this conversation. 🙂

Hello, Pavel

Thank you for responding to my support ticket and for trying the plugin in a standard theme. I just tried the standard WP php line you suggested and it works.

I still am clueless as to how to add multiple authors to Narrator. It makes sense for a magazine-style theme. If you do find a solution, would you kindly let me know?

I wonder if updating the theme to let the user show or hide the author(s) on the editing panel is something that you would consider. I am sure many Narrator users would welcome the choice. The fact that it contains an ACF license would make it easy for you (I’m guessing here) to replace the standard WP author combo with a specific field for the authors of a post (with 2 to 4 field instances, for example).

Best,
Juan

Sorry, my bad. Please use this:

<div class="juan-custom-author-box">Post by: <a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url(get_the_author_meta('ID')); ?>"><?php the_author(); ?></a></div>

This should display all the posts by a certain author. There is not a template for an author in this theme per se.

Regards,
Paul

You are very welcome, Juan!