gbaka

okay tell me exactly what you want to do…
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/the_author
maybe this could help…

figured it out…

are just trying to get the name of the author who posted the post, to show up on the posts its <?php the_author(); ?>

hmm I have no idea how to do it, i understand it but don’t know how to do it…

peter your code worked but how do i change it to category names that link to the category?

thanks I solved it already its a great plugin by the way

well i tried to replace it, i get a syntax error maybe its too long for a echo function.. well I’m using the_category(” “) i don’t have to change much, right if i finally get it?

so anyone know how to switch the ImageExtractor coding from that plugin to grab images from the category page instead of using post_content that grabs it from the post?

I know it works but i have to place it in separate echo functions and i only have to place it in the_title once because the the_title for the other ones are for other functions that i don’t use. the only thing is I’m not use to using echo…

if($vrpOptions['post_title_after_image'] == 'false') {
					  if($vrpOptions['include_post_title'] == 'true') {
						  echo '<div id="vrp_title_caption" style="';

						  if($vrpOptions['post_title_ptop'] != '') echo 'padding-top:'.$vrpOptions['post_title_ptop'].'px;';
						  if($vrpOptions['post_title_pright'] != '') echo 'padding-right:'.$vrpOptions['post_title_pright'].'px;';
						  if($vrpOptions['post_title_pbottom'] != '') echo 'padding-bottom:'.$vrpOptions['post_title_pbottom'].'px;';
						  if($vrpOptions['post_title_pleft'] != '') echo 'padding-left:'.$vrpOptions['post_title_pleft'].'px;';

						  echo '"><h3><a style=" font-size:'.$vrpOptions['title_caption_font_size'].'px;';
						  echo '" href="';
						  echo the_permalink();
						  echo '">';
						  echo the_category(' ');
						  echo '</a></h3></div>';
					  } else {
						  //echo '<div></div>';
					  }

thats the code I’m trying to edit, I’m trying to get it to how peter showed me since I only waant 17 characters followed by ‘…’ but I have no idea how to add it in that way. also tried the css method didn’t go the way i wanted.

thank you so much it fixed the problem.

so anyone know?

yea but this is a plugin it has its on css and the coding of it so long everytime i try to change it it gives me a error…

thanks alot, I’m trying to add it for the visual recent post plugin for the titles but it just doesn’t seem to work for me…

anyone?