{"id":1847,"date":"2015-02-25T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T20:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2015-02-25T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T04:00:42","slug":"hacking-the-atahualpa-theme-for-showing-multiple-author-bylines-and-bios-with-the-co-authors-plus-plug-in-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2015\/02\/hacking-the-atahualpa-theme-for-showing-multiple-author-bylines-and-bios-with-the-co-authors-plus-plug-in-in-wordpress","title":{"rendered":"Hacking the Atahualpa Theme for Showing Multiple Author Bylines and Bios with the Co-Authors Plus Plug-In in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

For posts with multiple contributors in WordPress, showing multiple names in the byline requires some hacking. One must install the Co-Authors Plus plug-in<\/a> and then edit the code for their particular WordPress theme. Documentation written by Daniel Bachhuber, the author of the Co-Authors Plus plugin is located here<\/a>. For those using the Atahualpa theme<\/a> in WordPress, documentation is uneven, incomplete, and hard to come by. Hopefully, this post will provide more comprehensive guidance and save someone the time I spent I trying to figure this out. You can see an example of my solution in effect at the Open Siddur Project<\/a> — check out the byline and multiple-author bios in this post<\/a>. (Please share with me any improvements you might have to what I’ve written below.)<\/p>\n

First Step<\/h3>\n

To add multiple contributors to the byline, I installed the Co-Authors Plus plug-in, and then following Juggledad’s advice<\/a> replaced a few lines of code in bfa_postinfo.php, a file in the “functions” directory of the Atahualpa theme folder. Juggledad says, “in Atahuapa there are 17 places you will have to change AND you will have to make this change each time you upgrade the theme,” but I found that I got the desired effect only making this change in three places, replacing “the_author();<\/code>“, “the_author_url();<\/code>“, “the_author_link();<\/code>” with the code, “coauthors_posts_links();\"<\/span><\/code>, as seen in the following example.<\/p>\n

\/\/ Author public name
\nif ( strpos($postinfo_string,'%author%') !== FALSE ) {<\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

ob_start();<\/span>
\nthe_author();<\/span><\/strong>
\n$author = ob_get_contents();<\/span>
\n ob_end_clean();<\/span>
\n $postinfo = str_replace(\"%author%\", $author, $postinfo);<\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

}<\/span>
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

with<\/p>\n

if ( strpos($postinfo_string,'%author%') !== FALSE ) {<\/code><\/span><\/p>\n

ob_start();<\/span>
\ncoauthors_posts_links();<\/span><\/strong>
\n$author = ob_get_contents();<\/span>
\n ob_end_clean();<\/span>
\n $postinfo = str_replace(\"%author%\", $author, $postinfo);<\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

}<\/code><\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s my entire modified bfa_postinfo.php file (from Atahualpa version 3.7.22) for comparison.<\/p>\n