How can I show author name???
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For a multi-author blog, how do you change it so that the author name shows? I have tried everything. I’m not sure if my theme allows for it, but I wanted to check before changing themes again multiple times. THANKS! (Note: Currently using “Sela” free theme)
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The point of displaying an author name is to differentiate the posts on an multi-author site. 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 official authors who both have at least one published post in the blog.
See author byline and author profile displayed or not > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/author-displayed-or-not/
For some tips on Multi-Author WordPress.com Blogs see http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/03/06/multi-author-wordpress-com-blogs/
You can have either a public or a private blog and there is no limitation on the total number of contributors to any blog. 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/The person will have to register a username account but does not need to register a blog. That requirement is because the software has to be able to differentiate between hackers and official users and allow access only to those with username accounts and official roles on the blog.
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.
Note there is a spammer prevention built-in so we can only issue 10 invitations at any point in time.
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There are four of us on there as authors (2 admins and 2 editors)…
When we create a new blog post, it gives us the choice to pick which 4 of us are the author, but then it doesn’t show on the post anywhere. So I’m confused! I’m new to the blogging world, and especially to WordPress.
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Only 1 Admin per blog is the recommendation and we have no backups for those who ignore that recommendation and find missing content or that the whole blog has been deleted by a co-Admin in a huff. https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator
When we create a new blog post, it gives us the choice to pick which 4 of us are the author, but then it doesn’t show on the post anywhere. So I’m confused! I’m new to the blogging world, and especially to WordPress.
If the authors have published posts on the blog and there is no author byline displaying, that could be because you are using a business theme that does not have an author byline feature. I don’t see one here
https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/sela/
And, I don’t see any author byline on posts in the live demo site either https://selademo.wordpress.com/ -
Thanks. One more questions…if the theme DOES support showing the author name, do you know if and where that’s displayed on the theme description? Thanks again.
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On themes that do provide an author byline, where it is displayed varies from theme to theme. In some themes it is at the top by the post title. In others it’s down in categories and tags data at the end of posts.
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