Need help with adding second author byline

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  ppgr · Member · Sep 28, 2013 at 2:18 am

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  Hi there,

  I’m trying to learn how to add a second author byline to a standard blog post. Can anyone out there help me out? I’m on my second day learning CSS, :p

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Sep 28, 2013 at 2:28 am

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  On a free theme I know this does not require CSS editing if an author byline already exists. Regardless of the theme, and provided the theme is designed to display an author 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.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 28, 2013 at 2:29 am

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  You may want post to the Premium Themes Forum for a direct response from the theme designer.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/premium-themes/#premium-theme-support
  Modern News > http://premium-themes.forums.wordpress.com/forum/modern-news

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  ppgr · Member · Sep 28, 2013 at 2:38 am

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  Thanks I’ll give it a shot over there. I’m not exactly sure what you were trying to tell me, but I don’t have a free theme, so I guess it doesn’t really matter.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 28, 2013 at 2:55 am

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  Volunteers don’t have access to premium themes and cannot work with them in our test blogs so I referred to the free themes which are those ones we can work with in test blogs.

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  designsimply · Member · Oct 4, 2013 at 9:27 pm

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  I’m trying to learn how to add a second author byline to a standard blog post. Can anyone out there help me out?

  Regardless of whether a theme is free or premium, a second author would need to be added with PHP and not CSS, so this is not something you can do at WordPress.com since you only have the option to add CSS to modify the appearance of existing things here.

  If you want to get really into customizations and change the way main features (like a single author byline) work, then you would want to switch to a WordPress.org setup where you would have full access to the code and also use the volunteer forums at http://wordpress.org/support/

  timethief mentioned premium themes because you selected http://ppgreview.ca/ as the blog you need help with when you created this help request and that site is currently using Modern News which is one of WordPress.com’s premium themes.