Template Tags

I dunno if this is still a problem for you bit it might be for somebody out there. In Virtue’s single.php where it says (templates/content’,’single’); that means it’s talking about the content-single.php file located in Virtue’s template folder.
I still haven’t figured out exactly how to edit that file, but at least we know which file we need.

Also I couldn’t find an author.php, but content-single.php references an authorbox.php which has a bunch of stuff in it. It’s located in Virtue’s lib folder.
I’ll be back if I figure out more.

So after some podunking around I managed to get it to display the authors. However, the file that I changed wasn’t content-single.php. I changed entry-meta-subhead.php instead. I must have done something wrong though, because while it is displaying multiple authors, it’s listing all the authors twice for some reason.

Like if the two authors are Adam and Jess, it shows the authors like this:
“by Adam and JessAdam and Jess“

Also, I used the coauthors_posts_links() function and the first author listed doesn’t work right. The other 3 links work fine, though. I inspected the source in Chrome and found that the first one’s link is missing all the slashes. So it’s “http: blabla.com index.php author Adam” instead of “https://blabla.com/index.php.author/adam“. I have no idea how either of these problems happened.

Did some more fiddling and managed to get it to only list authors once by adding some arguments to the function:
coauthors_posts_links(null, null, null, null, false) The important one here is the last argument. Still not entirely sure why that worked.

Also still working on getting the first author’s link to work.

Haha wow so I’m dumb. I left in some extra code from the original file that was screwing it up. Problem solved I guess.

hi stapleshotz,

thanks for looking into this! i’m sure others will benefit when they see your solution. i eventually gave up and found a friend who was good with wordpress. took him a bit, but he got it working well for what i needed.

jeremy

Hi, I’m having a pretty similar problem so I figured I’d tack myself on to this thread–I recently updated my theme, zeeMagazine, and totally borked my blog so I had to reinstall the old version manually. That worked fine but now coauthors don’t show up at all on the front end so I must have to re-edit a tag somewhere. Problem is, I can’t find anything with “the_author” or “the_author_posts” in it–not author.php, single.php, or several other files that I’ve checked randomly. I worked my way through your advice, stapleshotz, but my theme doesn’t seem to have any of the other files you mention. You seem to have a much better sense of what you’re doing than I do though, so any ideas? Thanks!

Hey Steady, it sounds to me like when you updated your theme, it bork your site because perhaps you weren’t using a child theme? If you don’t know what that is, then I recommend you start there since any changes you make to fix this specific problem will break as soon as you update your theme again. If you’re using child themes already, then I have no idea what could have gone wrong.

As for this problem, I don’t think I’ll be of much help. Every theme seems to have very a different file setup so it’s pretty difficult to find specific help. You might be able to try contacting the author of your theme for assistance? In my case I wasn’t able to get in touch with the author or Virtue, so I got pretty lucky I was able to fix it flailing around blindly.

When you’re searching through your files for the right line of code, it’s important to use very general key words. Your theme may not use the “the_author” tag. I think virtue was using something like “dex_this_author” or something completely arbitrary. Search for “author” instead.

Actually I eventually found the tag and fixed it just like that–by flailing around blindly. So it’s fixed, but now that you mention it, I’m aware of child themes but I’m not 100% confident how to make one–is it as simple as duplicating the existing theme folder in the FTP client and just giving it a different name?

Thanks for responding. I had the same thought about just searching for “author”, as well, though I wish there was a way to search all the php files at once instead of just opening them one at a time. All’s well that ends well, I guess.

I’m glad you got it figured out!

Child themes are a little bit more complicated than that, but not much. Here’s a quick tutorial on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbU12Tw7Q4U which is what I used to learn how. They also have a whole series of wordpress tutorials that are pretty useful. Hope that helps!

Thanks!