[Plugin: Co-Authors Plus] Installing on Graphene theme

You’ll probably want to replace the block entirely with something like:

<?php coauthors_posts_links(); ?>

This will give you bylines with the authors’ names linked to their archive pages.

Hi Daniel,

I tried what you suggested, though I had to expand the selection of code I replaced (the snippet I posted above was actually incomplete; replacing just that part gave me a syntax error)

I thus replaced the following:

<?php /* Post author, not shown if this is a Page post or if admin decides to hide it */ ?>

			<?php if ( $post_type->name != 'page' && $graphene_settings['hide_post_author'] != true ) : ?>

            <p class="post-author author vcard">

				<?php

				/* translators: this is for the author byline, such as 'by John Doe' */

				$author_url = '<a href="' . get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) . '" class="url">' . get_the_author_meta( 'display_name' ) . '</a>';

				printf( __( 'by %s', 'graphene' ), '<span class="fn nickname">' . $author_url . '</span>' );

				?>

			</p>

			<?php endif; ?>

with what you suggested,

<?php coauthors_posts_links(); ?>

This the result:
(first JK1 image is with original loop file, JK2 image is modified)

https://juventiknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/JK1.jpg
https://juventiknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/JK2.jpg

As you can see, I’ve lost the proper formatting as well as the “by” word.

I’d be extremely grateful if you could help me further with this Daniel, though I predict that you taking a look at the FULL loop.php file might be necessary. I’ve posted the original here on pastebin:

https://pastebin.com/Gfjfja1J

Try:

<?php if ( $post_type->name != 'page' && $graphene_settings['hide_post_author'] != true ) : ?>
<p class="post-author author vcard">
<span class="fn nickname">
<?php echo coauthors_posts_links(); ?>
</span>
</p>
<?php endif; ?>

This will retain some of the original CSS

I finally got around to trying your last suggestion Daniel.

As far as CSS goes, it worked: the author name appears where it should be.

However, I created two additional problems:
1) I lost the “by” word (“by” John Doe…)
2) The author name(s) appear in duplicate

https://juventiknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/JK3a.jpg

1) I lost the “by” word (“by” John Doe…)

Add “By ” in front of <?php echo coauthors_posts_links(); ?> and it will reappear

2) The author name(s) appear in duplicate

The co-authors code must be executing twice. Are you sure you don’t have coauthors_posts_links() in there twice?

I think I fixed it.

1) Your “by” fix worked.
2) I removed echo in the snippet of code you suggested. Now it’s working fine.

<?php if ( $post_type->name != 'page' && $graphene_settings['hide_post_author'] != true ) : ?>
<p class="post-author author vcard">
<span class="fn nickname">
by <?php coauthors_posts_links(); ?>
</span>
</p>
<?php endif; ?>

Just one thing: predictably, if I de-activate Co-Authors, my site gives me a fatal error due to those lines of code in loop.php. I wonder if there is a way to set up the code so that if Co-Authors isn’t active, the original code is used instead.

Kinda what’s suggested in the ‘other notes’ section of the plug-in’s website:

if(function_exists('coauthors_posts_links'))
    coauthors_posts_links();
else
    the_author_posts_link();

…except in a way that the else conditions somehow include the original lines of code I posted above.

I know I might this might be a little bit more complicated, so if it is I’m quite happy with just having the plug-in functioning properly. But it’d be nice to have a ‘clean’ solution to the whole problem. ??

Thank you very much for all your help by the way Daniel! ?? Much appreciated.

Oh, an added note for users who might have the same problem: the above fix works only for your homepage (which uses loop.php).

For single posts, you need to modify loop-single.php pretty much the same way.

You could probably use that “if…else” function in a PHP widget in a Graphene action hook widget area, and then just suppress the regular author area with a bit of custom CSS.

Glad to hear you figured it out ??

With regards to your conditional inclusion of the code, you can use the “if… else” statement with a larger block of code. Basically:

if ( function_exists( 'coauthors_posts_links' ) ) {

// Do the new co-authors block of code

} else {

// Do your original block of code

}

kjodle sorry, I have no idea what you just said. ??

Daniel, your solution doesn’t seem to work properly because the “if… else” code doesn’t execute. Either that or I didn’t enter it correctly.

https://juventiknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/JK3b.jpg

Notice how both the original code and the co-authors code execute simultaneously, but the “if… else” function is ignored completely (the lines of code appear on the webpage!)

Here’s how I input it in loop.php:

if ( function_exists( 'coauthors_posts_links' ) ) {

			<?php if ( $post_type->name != 'page' && $graphene_settings['hide_post_author'] != true ) : ?>
			<p class="post-author author vcard">
			<span class="fn nickname">
			by <?php coauthors_posts_links(); ?>
			</span>
			</p>
			<?php endif; ?>

} else {

			<?php /* Post author, not shown if this is a Page post or if admin decides to hide it */ ?>

			<?php if ( $post_type->name != 'page' && $graphene_settings['hide_post_author'] != true ) : ?>

            <p class="post-author author vcard">

				<?php

				/* translators: this is for the author byline, such as 'by John Doe' */

				$author_url = '<a href="' . get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) . '" class="url">' . get_the_author_meta( 'display_name' ) . '</a>';

				printf( __( 'by %s', 'graphene' ), '<span class="fn nickname">' . $author_url . '</span>' );

				?>

			</p>

			<?php endif; ?>

}

You need to wrap it in some PHP tags… ??

if ( function_exists( 'coauthors_posts_links' ) ) {

becomes

<?php if ( function_exists( 'coauthors_posts_links' ) ) { ?>

Tried that Daniel, but I get a parse error.

I tried two things: wrapping just the first line in PHP tags (like in your example), or the whole block of code (i.e. putting ?> right after the } at the end). I still get a parse error. Do I need more PHP tags in between?

It would probably be easier if you could show me where you’d put all the tags into the whole block of code I posted above.

Yep, it should look something like this: https://gist.github.com/2210295

Worked!! Problem solved! ??

Plug-in is now working fine, and if I de-activate it, the site displays a single author, as it should by default graphene settings!

Once again, thank you very much for all your help! ??

Glad to hear ??