joeysimon

Well if you look at the source code for the blog page where the widget appears, it does put it in a multimedia box div (which you actually pointed out)…but also notice how it’s a “custom box” class.

My guess is that’s how he was able to make it only appear on the blog pages: the code was entered in the custom box field of the multimedia box, and then the mmbox was turned off…

I bet if you look in the custom functions.php there’s some code in there instructing the site to display the mmbox if the entry is of a “post” type.

Pretty slick, actually.

kmessinger I could be wrong on this but it sounds like that’s what he was already doing.

tbonees, if that’s the case, and you’ve checked through all the website files and haven’t found that code, that means the only other place it could be is the database. That would mean it’s not hardcoded into the site, but rather a data entry somewhere…

I know you said the Multimedia Box is disabled, but go back in the design options and switch it to “custom code”. My guess is that’s where it is.

Most of the time this is done, as you suggest, by having an account for that author and just selecting it for the byline like shown here…
https://www.headwayvideos.com/wordpress-basics/administration/how-to-change-the-byline-of-a-wordpress-post

But for you, it sounds like the “Custom Author Byline” plugin is the ticket:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/custom-author-byline/

How exactly do you know what you’re looking for code-wise? When you run your search, what are you searching for exactly?