Post Author
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I have recently added a contributor to my blog (http://maiapapaya.wordpress.com), and I was wondering how my readers will be able to tell who is posting on each post. As far as I can see, the post author isn’t shown anywhere.. is this peculiarity of the theme (Treba) I’m using? Is there any way to make sure the post author is shown somewhere?
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It depends on the theme. Some do provide author page templates and some do not.
These are the options available for you to choose from.
(1) You can choose a theme that provides for and displays individual authors. There are theme reviews that can assist you in determining if a theme provides this “authors” feature. Look in the section titled “Display post author”.
(2) If the theme you prefer to use does not this feature then you can create a category called “Authors” as a “parent” category and then create “children” (Tom, Dick, Harry) sub-categories for each author’s name under the parent category Authors.
(3) Or if neither of the above options are suitable then you can have each author include a byline in the posts they create.
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Some of the themes have “posted by” built into them, others do not. There’s a couple of things you can do:
1. Engtech.wordpress.com has a comparison of themes (although I don’t know how up to date it is!) which would give this information.
2. Create a specific category for your contributor.
3. Get them to “sign” every post they make – eg “posted by xx”.
I don’t know Treba so can’t tell you. If it’s not there, it’s not built into the theme.
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Hrmm. Well, that’s kind of annoying, since my theme doesn’t display the post author. I guess I’ll have to redo css in another theme which does. Blech. The second option won’t work for me since I would like my readers to see who posted each post when looking at the post, not just when sorting all posts. Oh well.
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