Manual Authors

Hi, there is already an option for multi-author :
Options page > Custom Twitter Cards > Add a field Twitter to profiles > yes.

Then every single author can add his own Twitter Account as meta creator for his article.

I do not want the user to have to register. I want to be able to write in the author. Perhaps using a custom field.

OK I see you want a field in edit post. I can show you how to do that but you’ll have to add this by yourself. Can you do this?

sorry wrong bb codes

sorry wrong bbcode

Sorry their bbcodes are a little be tricky here !
Open jm-twitter-cards.php, add this line 58 :

//we add a new post meta to our post
$creator = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(),'twitterCreator',true);

then add this line 71:

<?php //this is the markup for new field ?>
<p>
<label for="twitterCreator"><?php _e('Enter your Personal Twitter account', 'jm-tc'); ?> :</label>
@<input id="twitterCreator" type="text" name="twitterCreator" class="regular-text" value="<?php echo esc_attr($creator); ?>" />
</p>

and last replace code on line 96 to 98 with this code :

// here you update value
if( isset( $_POST['twitterCardType'] , $_POST['twitterCreator'] ) )
update_post_meta( $post_id, 'twitterCardType', esc_attr( $_POST['twitterCardType'] ) );
update_post_meta( $post_id, 'twitterCreator', esc_attr( $_POST['twitterCreator'] ) );
}

Wow, finally a dev on here that actually responds, and with a solution too!
But, the creator field is being over written. I can change the type but the creator is still being set to the account that is posting.

oO
Hi, I’ve tested this code before. It adds a field and when input is fulfilled and post saved the meta creator is changed.

This is what you asked me for. I don’t understand.

I know, the form displays but the new creator is not being changed. The twitter:creator meta is still the user that is logged in, not the one i put in manually. Any idea why this happens?

probably because I forgot to mention line 162. You have to replace this line :

//content from the field in user profile
$creator   = get_the_author_meta('twitter', $post->post_author);

with this line :

// grab post meta from our new custom field
$creator = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(),'twitterCreator',true);

It should fix the problem. ??

YES! There it is. This is awesome functionality. Thanks so much.

My pleasure ??