Dan Petty

@ketanmujumdar — Thank you!

I, too, am looking to figure out how to make tags a mandatory field. I found this for the name and ID of the field itself:

newtag[post_tag]:new-tag-post_tag

But it doesn’t seem to work. Any ideas, Ketan?

Andrea — Thanks for the suggestion. It’s affecting multiple themes. The two sites I mentioned above — on different URLs (but the same server) — are on different themes and are seeing the same thing with its pagination.

Here’s the final solution, after some messing around with code. I’ve tested and it works. Thanks for the help, stvwlf.

<?php
$auth = get_the_author();
if ($auth == 'admin') {
  echo c2c_get_custom('hpbyline');
} else {
      if(function_exists('coauthors_posts_links')) {
           coauthors_posts_links();
      } else {
           the_author_posts_link();
     }
   }
?>

Can anyone build on stvwif’s response?

Thanks for the reply, stvwif, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Here’s what it spits back.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENDWHILE in /home1/thecolm1/public_html/wp-content/themes/revolution_news-21/archive.php on line 44

I was also wondering whether it was possible to integrate the “Co-authors” plugin I have activated into your solution. Essentially, if the post author IS NOT “admin” go through these commands (below). There are a lot of if/else statements in this, and I don’t know how to properly code it.

<?php if(function_exists('coauthors_posts_links'))
                                   coauthors_posts_links();
                           else
                              the_author_posts_link(); ?>

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Thanks, Otto. It worked great! I’m going to complicate things a bit. I want that author displayed to be a link to the author’s posts. I’m also using the “Co-Authors” plugin that allows me to add multiple authors to a post.

To clarify: If the author is “admin” I want none of the information — displayed below — to appear on the page. Otherwise, it should appear.

<div class="byline">
By <?php if(function_exists('coauthors_posts_links'))
      coauthors_posts_links();
else
      the_author_posts_link(); ?>
</div>
<div class="bytitle">
      <?php echo c2c_get_custom('Bytitle'); ?>
</div>

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Thanks for the reply, Mike. I actually already have the plugin, and I don’t think it’ll do quite what I want it to. Perhaps a Javascript slideshow is the answer? That’s what the NYT uses for “Inside NYTimes”. I’m using it at the end of my posts to provide links to other stories. So, I want to be able to display like 4 images (linking to posts) in a horizontal row, with “left” and “right” scroll buttons to see more images. Lots of the plugins out there are flash-based and really visually appealing, I’m looking for something a little more basic.

Can anyone else help?

By the way, the code as written causes any author who has been part of a multiple author post to have the designation “Collegian Reporters,” even if it’s a single author. So, I’ve been a part of multiple author posts, but my title on other stories just by me is now “Collegian Reporters.”

Just to clarify…