Showing the Author of the Post
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We have one company blog on WordPress and 3 employees blogging. How can we show the author of each post? All three have their own Usernames and are either Administrators, Editors, or Authors on the blog. They all log in indivdually and post their messages, but there is no way of telling who posted what when you read the public blog. I think if one of us posted a comment to the post, our username and avatar would appear…. but how can we make this work for the original post!!??!! This is driving me crazy….. can someone help??
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Some themes automatically list who posted it, with or without an avatar. Can we have a link to your blog?
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Many thanks raincoaster and dissfunktional. This is the link to our blog: http://ccdblog.wordpress.com/ We use the Blix theme- which we’d like to keep. However, if other themes offer the ability to list who the post author is, we may have to switch.
I’ll look into the Author Widget, hopefully it’s intuitive. Any other advice you have to enable us to list the Post authors on our Blix theme blog is much appreciated!
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Thanks for the link, it clarifies things. NeoSapien is the best for displaying authors (it shows avatars too) but frankly if you like Blix you’ll probably hate it.
The author widget is automatic, you shouldn’t need to do anything other than put it in the sidebar. Do note all the issues with widgets over the past few days before you make changes to your sidebar. Hopefully the bugs will be cured soon, though.
That’s a nice looking blog, but I have a word of caution for you. I see that you are pasting in from Word or from elsewhere on the Web. It’s a very bad idea to do that, as you pick up all kinds of strange HTML tags and cumulatively over time they can seriously mess up your blog. If your sidebar ever vanishes, it’s even money this is the cause.
In order to compose away from WordPress.com and still be able to use it on your blog you can either use an offline blog editor like Blogdesk or Ecto, or you can compose in Word or whatever, copy that, paste it into Notepad or Wordpad using “Paste Special->Remove Formatting” and then copy THAT. This is just the text, with no formatting or any links. Paste that into your blog, then add formatting and links. It’s a bit more labour intensive, but believe me, it will save you much grief in the long run.
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To list authors, you can have each of them “byline” their pieces right at the top, under the title.
TITLE first line: "posted by Jimbo" Then comes the body of the post.Additionally, you can use each author’s name as a category, which makes them searchable as well. The author’s widget does this automatically, though.
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Many thanks on all fronts raincoaster! We’ll try the author widgets. Regarding the text, we’ll heed your advice moving forward. Do you think it’s necessary to re-paste in unformatted text to the previously written posts? Or will that small amount of text not affect anything?
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I want the Author to show up in line under Post headline. It used to. Now it does not. Don’t understand what happened. What do I do to get it back?
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Dude, that site linked to your name isn’t a WordPress.com blog and we won’t be able to help you with that.
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I do have a WordPress blog. It’s just mapped to my own domain. I am using the Tarski theme and Author names showed up under post headline up until today. Is there no way to reset what suddenly went away?
Thanks.
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My blog is firstwaver.wordpress.com redirected to blog.firstwave.net. If you can help with Author name showing up, much appreciated.
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I’m in the same boat as waveblogger. I would like the author to appear under the post byline but I would like to keep the theme I’m currently using (Neat! by Topi Peltonen…which is basically perfect for us right now, thanks, btw.) We have at least two authors and the author widget doesn’t show the current author even if you’re on the permalinked site.
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oh! and the blog to which I’m referring is hoosierhumanities.wordpress.com. I must have the wrong URL in my profile.
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