How to post frontend submission under user submitted name

  • Resolved Anonymous User 17809219

    (@anonymized-17809219)


    6 months, 2 weeks ago

    I have a Submit Your Blog feature that I am building on my website. Guests submit their posts which are held as pending for review. After review as admin, I click publish.

    But this makes the post appear on the website as “Post – by Admin”. I would like this to appear as “Post – by User. That is the name the User entered on the Submit Your Blog form.

    Is this not possible? Is this a paid feature.

    Thank you for your time

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  • Plugin Author Jeff Starr

    (@specialk)

    Glad to help.

    Every theme is different in how the user name is displayed. USP tries to display the submitter’s username by default, but it depends on how the theme is coded.

    The one thing that you can check in the plugin that may be having an effect is the setting “Disable Replace Author”. Make sure that is disabled, and also have a look at the other “User” settings. For example “Registered Username” setting may have an effect on username display.

    I hope this helps, let me know if I can provide any further information.

    Thread Starter Anonymous User 17809219

    (@anonymized-17809219)

    I am using the standard WordPress 2024 theme and I have seen that setting and tried it. So in this respect there is no difference between Pro and Free? I am asking to know if I need to buy the pro. I don’t want to buy the pro version if this feature is not available.

    Thank you for your help. And just to make sure that I am being clear. I want the name entered by the person who is submitting the post to appear in the “Post – by Submitter name”. This person will not have a wordpress user account. The whole purpose is so my students can submit blogs without logging in. We will use other methods of verification.

    Thank you for your time.

    Plugin Author Jeff Starr

    (@specialk)

    Glad to help:

    “So in this respect there is no difference between Pro and Free?”

      Correct, it really depends entirely on the theme. Here is more technical information about the requirements and other details. As explained in that article, feature support requires specific code in the active theme. So if a theme does not support the free version, it also will not support the pro version.

      I hope this helps, let me know if I can provide any further information.

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