[wp-hackers] Placing a guest author custom field

[RePost]

Well, whataya know. Thanks, Dion!

This is a great routine to add if you want to credit one-time guest 
authors with proper bylines.


On 4/3/11 8:12 PM, Dion Hulse (dd32) wrote:
> If you include the add_filter +   guest_author_name code in your themes
> functions.php file, you shouldn't have to change the_author() to
> get_post_meta()...
>
> The way the filter code works, if is you have assigned a guest name, it
> overrides the output of the_author() to that of the guest, otherwise
> displays the "normal" author name.
>
> On 4 April 2011 11:07, RePost<repost_08 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to place a Guest Author field (as described at wpbeginners.com)
>> in my index.php and single.php templates. I inserted some code in
>> functions.php:
>>
>> |// guest author custom field
>> add_filter( 'the_author', 'guest_author_name' );
>> add_filter( 'get_the_author_display_name', 'guest_author_name' );
>>
>> function guest_author_name( $name ) {
>> global $post;
>>
>> $author = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'guest-author', true );
>>
>> if ( $author )
>> $name = $author;
>>
>> return $name;
>> }|
>>
>>
>> I edited my index.php and single.php templates to replace this:
>>
>> |<?php the_author();?>|
>>
>>
>> with this:
>>
>> |<?phpechoget_post_meta($post->ID,'guest-author',true);?>
>> |
>>
>> This works fine when I select the custom field and fill in a guest author's
>> name. But if I don't use a custom field because I'm publishing my own post,
>> the author's name is left blank on the blog!
>>
>> What am I missing here?
>>
>> Thanks.
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