Question about automatic Author showing on posts

[Peter_Fae]

Hey. I have a bit of code in the functions.php of my child theme which shows the Author at the bottom of every post. This works, and yet I’d like to exclude a few select posts from that. How could I override that function for specific posts?

[ruenel]

Hello There,

You can add a condition within your function so that you can exclude the single posts. For example:

function the_function_name(){
  if ( ! is_single(array(1,2,3)) ) {
  	// display author action
  }
}

where in the 1,2,3 are the IDs of the posts. To know where you can get the post IDs so that you can exclude it, please check it here: https://theme.co/apex/forum/t/setup-how-to-locate-post-ids/59

Hope this helps.

[Peter_Fae]

Nice. What about removing the Author shortcode showing on an entire category of posts?

[Alaa]

Hi Peter,

In this case, you should wrap your code between:

if ( ! in_category(array(1,2,3)) ) {
  	// display author action
  }

where these numbers are the categories IDs, names or slugs. Check this page to know more about the in_category conditional tag.

Thanks.