Contributors name being changed to admin on blog list

  • I have set my blog to display the author for each post using ‘get_author’. I have contributors and their name is showing fine on the category and single post pages as it should. However, on my main blog page where I am listing all blogs with excerpts the author is showing as my name on all posts even though the authors for the pages is the contributor. I do approve the posts (as admin) but they are still under the contributors names but this is not showing on my main blog posts page.

    I hope that makes some sense to someone and they can steer me in the right direction of how to fix this!

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  • I would best guess that the theme provided front page post template is pulling the ‘approver’ and not the ‘author’. Check with theme provider. It is very likely a theme issue and without a site link, shared URL to the issue, or additional information, that is likely the best guess.

    Thread Starter dawnted

    (@dawnted)

    Thanks for your reply.

    here is my link

    The theme was a custom theme that I have inherited and did not originally have a blog site as it was being use as a cms for content. The original person who created it is not contactable.

    I am definitely calling the author as seen in the code below. This is the same code I am using on the single page template for the posts where the correct information is being displayed.

    <small>by <?php the_author(); ?> - <?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?></small>

    WordPress version: 3.7.1

    Well, on both the ‘news’ and ‘community reporters’ category pages, we see differing authors. The issue is with whatever your blog is using for a front page. Can you discern which template the site is using for front page? Is it set at:

    Admin Dashboard>Settings>Reading>Front Page Displays ??

    What is that set to? And, does your theme have either a front-page.php or a home.php file? If set to a posts page, look for a theme template file such as loop.php or post-template.php.

    If Front Page Displays is set to a page, go to the page editor, find that page, hover over the title, click quick edit, review what page template it is using, then review that template.

    Please backup all theme files prior to edit.

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