Comments on: How to Rewrite Guest Author Name with Custom Fields in WordPress

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:45:20 +0000

The whole idea behind this method is that you do not want to create a new profile for the user. Because a lot of guest posters are one-time posters. So you can just credit them with their name, and author signature at the bottom of the post. If they are regular posters, then this method is not for you.

By: Klaus

Klaus — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:38:55 +0000

Great snippet, but with one fault though (which I hope you have a fix for). The snippet *does* replace my Guest Author user account with whatever name I define as a custom field, but when I click on that author name inside the post, I end up at an URL such as “/author/guestauthor”, but the name displayed at the top of that page is not “Guest Author”, as is the name of that user account, but instead the name I defined as a custom field for one of the posts.

I thought it would be solved by simple wrapping (is_single) around the snippet, so that it would only execute when viewing a post, but that doesn’t work at all.

Any ideas?

Thanks

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:30:20 +0000

If you mean specific author profile pages, then no this cannot be used for that. If you mean a little box below the guest posts as a custom field, then sure a similar function could be used

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:25:53 +0000

i’m going to jump in on this, since the custom field author hack has helped considerably …

i’d like to populate the ‘about the author’ page as well, using the same method (custom field). i’m also not a coder; would i use a similar code as to the one used above?

thanks!

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:58:00 +0000

Yes, it is possible to do the guest author description via custom field. You can set a conditional statement if there is x custom field, then display the custom field text, if not then display wp-gravatar.

By: Riki

Riki — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:59:05 +0000

Is it possible to include a field for the author’s description as well? I already have a plugin (wp-gravatar) that posts the author’s description at the end of a post. However, I want to be able to post the guest author’s description without having to create new accounts everytime. Is it possible to combine the method you described above to make it do this?

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:32:50 +0000

It’s working fine with WP 3.0

By: rikkit

rikkit — Mon, 31 May 2010 17:37:15 +0000

I tried this too, pasting the code into the top of my includes/functions.php file. I got a php error, saying that something was an invalid filter. Does this work with WordPress 3.0?

I hope I can get it to work, I’m porting a site to WordPress form Joomla and this is the only thing I’m missing.

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:28:05 +0000

What is not working? We have this running on WPBeginner site and it works just fine. We are just calling a simple custom field.

By: ChaCha Fance

ChaCha Fance — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:37:17 +0000

I was really hoping this would work for me but hmmm didn’t work