Is there a plugin to hide contributor names from posts and feeds?

  • halsnalle

    (@halsnalle)


    18 years ago

    I’m running a blog where we wish some posts to be published anonymously, whereas other posts display the name of their author.

    So far, I have simply removed all references to authors in theme templates and feeds. But I’d rather have it as an option, whether or not to disclose author names, either post by post (show the author’s name for post A but not for post B) or author by author (show author X’s name, but not author Y’s), but preferably both.

    Is there some plugin that would allow me to do something like this?

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  • Here’s one relevant solution that would hide the author when the post is within a particular category:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/33367

    However, I’d like to also be able to easily hide the author from the RSS feed, as well. The code that produces the feed would probably need to be edited as well, for any complete solution.

    Halsnalle: thanks for replying to my email earlier.

    What about creating a user called “anonymous poster” and log in and write all the anon posts with that author ??

    (or just pick “him” as author in the Post Author option)

    That could work. You could call the user YourBlogName… and:

    – Optionally have an if-then statement in the template, LIKE the one in the link above, that will hide the author name if it’s YourBlogName.

    – Leave your feed as is, and the author would be YourBlogName OR add a similar if-then statement in creating the feed.

    I’m not prepared to figure out the code for this, currently, but suggestions are welcome! ??

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