In my other blog Cats Who Blog, I have demonstrated how being a guest blogger is definitely a great way to gain new readers. In order to give your guest authors some credits, you should definitely implement this easy tip.
Nothing hard with this recipe: Simply paste the following code on your single.php and page.php, where you want the author name to be displayed.
<?php $author = get_post_meta($post->ID, "guest-author", true);
if ($author != "") {
echo $author;
} else {
the_author();
} ?>
Once done, you just have to create a custom field named guest-author and type your custom title as a value.
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I personally prefer to create accounts for my guest authors… But there are sure cases where this is better.
I like creating the guest accounts as well because it allows me to more easily display their gravatar and their author information at the bottom of each post.
?> to close the PHP line is missing
This will be really helpful – thanks! I use a lot of guest author posts and I create accounts for those who guest author more than one or two posts but some people are once-offs and this is a great solution!
@Ricky Buchanan : Fixed it, thanks!
A more appropriate way to do this would be to drop this code in your theme’s
functions.phpfile. This makes sure you cover all instances of the author name in all templates. This also makes it easier to carry changes from theme to theme and work along with child themes.add_filter( 'the_author', 'custom_author_name' );add_filter( 'get_the_author_display_name', 'custom_author_name' );
function custom_author_name( $name ) {
global $post;
$author = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'guest-author', true );
if ( $author )
$name = $author;
return $name;
}
@Justin Tadlock: Used the second filter hook for something similar, thanks for the suggestion! (Some filter hooks really are a secret! They should extend their documentation, really) (In case you want to know what for I used it, it’s a plugin ‘WT Co-authors’ in the WP plugin directory, just saying)
Thanks a million!
We are using wordpress as a CMS for a student newspaper. I utilized this to avoid having to create a user account for every freelancer, and still give them a byline.
This worked great, but normal authors’ names no longer link to their posts. Any suggestions?
Thanks for this tutorial….which i’m looking for…can i add more custom field i.e bio,email…how to do that ? help me….
Is this the technique used on wpreceipes.com ? I originally left a couple of comments as a guest and it did show my name which was neat. As a result I came back several times and have now registered on the forum so as a way of pulling me in it worked in my case.
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