Author Display on Posts page in Twenty Seventeen

Hey @awlang ! It looks like the only way to do this is by editing the theme’s templates. The best way to do this is by creating a child theme. If you decide to go this way, an easier way would be to use a plugin to generate a child theme.

If you go this way, you will be able to copy template-parts/post/content.php from the main theme, and modify that.

Thanks Kava, I have made a child them as you suggest and have opened the content.php file as directed, but I don’t have much experience of editing php. I’ll paste the original here, would you be able to tell me what the edit should be?

<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
	<?php
	if ( is_sticky() && is_home() ) :
		echo twentyseventeen_get_svg( array( 'icon' => 'thumb-tack' ) );
	endif;
	?>
	<header class="entry-header">
		<?php
		if ( 'post' === get_post_type() ) {
			echo '<div class="entry-meta">';
			if ( is_single() ) {
				twentyseventeen_posted_on();
			} else {
				echo twentyseventeen_time_link();
				twentyseventeen_edit_link();
			}
			echo '</div><!-- .entry-meta -->';
		}

		if ( is_single() ) {
			the_title( '<h1 class="entry-title">', '</h1>' );
		} elseif ( is_front_page() && is_home() ) {
			the_title( '<h3 class="entry-title"><a href="' . esc_url( get_permalink() ) . '" rel="bookmark">', '</a></h3>' );
		} else {
			the_title( '<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="' . esc_url( get_permalink() ) . '" rel="bookmark">', '</a></h2>' );
		}
		?>
	</header><!-- .entry-header -->

	<?php if ( '' !== get_the_post_thumbnail() && ! is_single() ) : ?>
		<div class="post-thumbnail">
			<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
				<?php the_post_thumbnail( 'twentyseventeen-featured-image' ); ?>
			</a>
		</div><!-- .post-thumbnail -->
	<?php endif; ?>

	<div class="entry-content">
		<?php
		the_content(
			sprintf(
				/* translators: %s: Post title. Only visible to screen readers. */
				__( 'Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "%s"</span>', 'twentyseventeen' ),
				get_the_title()
			)
		);

		wp_link_pages(
			array(
				'before'      => '<div class="page-links">' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentyseventeen' ),
				'after'       => '</div>',
				'link_before' => '<span class="page-number">',
				'link_after'  => '</span>',
			)
		);
		?>
	</div><!-- .entry-content -->

	<?php
	if ( is_single() ) {
		twentyseventeen_entry_footer();
	}
	?>

</article><!-- #post-<?php the_ID(); ?> -->

I’ve achieved the fix after quite a lot of trial and error code editing in the child theme. For the record, the edit I made is on line 28 of the content.php file in the posts folder. The original line is:

echo twentyseventeen_time_link();

And this changed to:

echo twentyseventeen_posted_on();

Maybe this will be helpful to someone else in the future.