Adding Product Author

Try at:
theme_child/woocommerce/single-product/title.php

More here:
https://docs.woothemes.com/document/template-structure/

Nope, no change.

Just a thought: the documentation you referenced says to put the customized files in the theme folder, which is generally considered a no-no for WordPress. Rather, it’s good practice to add customizations to the child theme, which I’ve done.

Should I use the parent theme?
If so, won’t any updates be undone whenever I update the parent?

Did you empty the W3 Total Cache cache?

You should use your child theme.

I did empty the W3 cache and I have the custom files in the child theme.

Seems like it’s got to be a code issue such as maybe I typed it wrong. I’m just now starting to learn PHP so I’m not very familiar with it — yet.

The (empty) h3 tag is showing up in the page, so you are now using the right file.

Try this to get the author name:

<h3 class="product_author"><?php echo "Author: ".get_user_by("ID", get_post(get_the_ID())->post_author)->display_name; ?></h3>

That works for now. I say for now because right now the only product would be my one solo book. However, should other items be added later that may include other authors or multiple authors, this wouldn’t work because it calls the post author rather than who I entered as the product author in the custom fields.

If I was going to do that, would I alter the code this way (seeing if I’m getting PHP at all, too):

<h3 class="product_author"><?php echo "Author: ".get_user_by("ID", get_post(get_the_ID())->$post->ID, 'product_author')->display_name; ?></h3>

I don’t think there is a ‘product_author’ property. You would need to set up a custom field for the product object. There are plugins to help with custom fields.

WooCommerce comes with the ability to add custom fields. Under Products, there is an option for “Custom Fields.” In it, I added “product_author” and entered my name for the value. However, it seems that isn’t recognized.

At least I believe it’s part of WooCommerce because I’ve never seen that option in the Screen Options before until I activated WC.

If you want the ‘real’ author metabox it needs to be enabled.

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/74054/woocommerce-assign-an-author-to-a-product

Mike,

Looks like that option creates a user on the WP system (cf. that thread OP’s “I was thinking of using the wordpress built-in ‘author’ user”). Unlike that individual, I’m not wanting to create user accounts on the website for each individual. I’d rather just type in the author’s name, which makes a lot more sense in the context of a store system.

In addition, being able to add other info specific to books like publication info, number of pages, etc. would be nice, but that’s for another thread. So far it seems WooCommerce is good for selling some products, but not really made for selling books.

– go to Product Data section > Attributes > Custom Product attribute: “Add”
– Name: = Product author
– Value: = Author: Smith
– at the end of title.php, add:

global $product;
  $attributes = $product->get_attributes();
  foreach ($attributes as $attribute) {
    if ($attribute["name"] == "Product author") {
      $values = array_map( 'trim', explode( WC_DELIMITER, $attribute['value'] ) );
      echo apply_filters( 'woocommerce_attribute', wpautop( wptexturize( implode( ', ', $values ) ) ), $attribute, $values );
    }
  }

When you say at the end of the title.php, you mean before the php closing mark (see below):

if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
	exit; // Exit if accessed directly
}
--- PUT IT HERE? ---
?>
<h1 itemprop="name" class="product_title entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<h3 class="product_author"><?php echo "Author: ".get_user_by("ID", get_post(get_the_ID())->post_author)->display_name; ?></h3>