Custom author

Assuming there’s no plugin that would work, you could consider:

1. Create those authors as users, then edit the Posts and make the post author one of those users.
2. Use Tags or Categories
3. Use Custom Fields (Using_Custom_Fields)

When I use the custom fields, I understand where and how to put the tags on the main index sheet, but how do i customize the author for each individual post if the “key” is just a word, and so is the “value”? It seems like i’d need to have a tag there or something?

The ‘key’ could be “submitter” and the ‘value’ would then be the name of the person who submitted the post.

Then what would I have to change the index.php to?

curently it is:

<p class=”post-info”>Submitted by <?php the_author(); ?> | Filed under <?php the_category(‘, ‘); ?></p>

I got it! Thanks. How do I move my meta data next to my | Categories? Right now it’s just stayin at the top.

Look for <?php the_category()'?> That’s the template tag that creates the category list.

hmmm. Thats what I have put in already, but It still puts the categories under the submitted by: https://www.doyouknowwhatihate.com

heres my code:

<?php the_meta(); ?><p class=”post-info”> | Filed under <?php the_category(‘, ‘); ?></p>

Try <p class="post-info"><?php the_meta(); ?> | Filed under <?php the_category(', '); ?></p>

Nope, didn’t work. It stayed in the same spot :/

Ah – I see what it is. You’re using the wrong tag. the_meta() returns an unordered list.

Try:

<p class="post-info">
<span class="post-meta-key">Submitted by:</span> <?php echo get_post_meta($post_id, 'submitter', true); ?> | Filed under <?php the_category(', '); ?></p>

(this assumes that you called the custom field “submitter”)

The other option would be to go back to use the_meta() but to format the_category() into an ordered list item. Then use css to turn the 2 bulleted list items into inline list items.

<div class="post-info">
<ul>
<?php the_meta(); ?>
<li> | Filed under <?php the_category(', '); ?></li>
</div>

CSS:

.postinfo ul,.postinfo li {
display:inline;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
.postinfo li {
margin-right:7px;
}

The first method put the Submitted by: and Posted under on the same line, but now my custom field for each post doesn’t show up.