Any way to add authors to posts on Expound theme?

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  deonezell · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 4:02 pm

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  The authors don’t show up on the front page, by the date. Is there any way to put them there?

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  timethief · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 5:15 pm

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  WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support forums. Read the differences here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  We provide support here only for WordPress.COM hosted blogs. I’m sorry but we cannot provide accurate answers to any blogger who fails to provide the exact URL starting with http:// for the exact blog they refer to so we can verify where it is hosted. Please do that now.

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  deonezell · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 5:23 pm

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  You got it — here you go. It’s WordPress.com. Thanks much for whatever insights you can provide!

  http://296bh.com/

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  timethief · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 5:27 pm

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  The point of displaying an author name is to differentiate the posts on an multi-author site. Whether or not a byline appears is theme dependent and dependent on officially assigning authorship roles to blog participants. Some themes do not provide bylines at all. Themes that do provide bylines require the person to be an actual official author of the blog. Regardless of the theme, and provided the theme is designed to display a byline, bylines will only display now if there are at least two authors who both have at least one published post in the blog.

  Very few themes have an “author profile” that displays a gravatar and brief author bio below every post. The data is derived from here > Dashboard > Users > My Profile > About You (section) and anything you add there appears on your Gravatar profile page as well.

  For a list of themes that do or do not display author bylines and/or author profiles see > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/author-displayed-or-not/ The wpbtips post lists themes created up to December 2011. There is a newer post that lists themes created from January 2012 through July 2014: http://danielgreene.com/2014/07/20/blog-2014-free-wordpress-themes-that-show-author-bylines/

  There is no limitation on the total number of authors. If you’d like to invite others to publish posts or help approve comments on your blog, you can invite them to be a Contributor, Editor, or Author. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.
  See here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

  As noted above the people you add as authors need username accounts but do not need to register blogs. They will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If they are logged into their WordPress.com account, they will be taken directly to your blog. If not, they will be taken to the log-in screen, where they can either log in or create a new user account.

  Note that users who create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.

  The limit is 10 invitations at any point in time. It’s a spammer prevention limit. So simply wait and then send out 10 more.

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  deonezell · Member · Jan 4, 2015 at 5:04 am

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  This is very helpful — thank you! Definitely cleared things up.