Feature Request for Post Meta

[amst_ws]

I’d like to request a change to the x_[stack]_entry_meta() functions.

I’d like it so that when WordPress’ get_the_author() function returns null (which is a valid return value), the Author meta is not output.

Currently, when WordPress’ get_the_author() function returns null, the Author meta is output without a name, which looks strange.

[friech]

Hi @amst_ws,

Thanks for writing in! Regretfully we could not provide custom development, and this would be outside the scope of support we can offer. You may wish to consult a developer to assist you with this. Our theme is quite extensible with child themes, so there are plenty of possibilities.

Thanks for understanding,

[amst_ws]

Thanks for getting back to me.

The reason I requested it here is because I didn’t want to do it myself in the child theme (for the sake of maintainability). I was hoping this functionality could be present in the theme itself, so in that regard, I wasn’t asking for custom development.

However, it seems this is not something that would not interest too many users, so I understand.

Thanks again.

[tristup]

Hi @amst_ws,

Let me explain to you more on your first query on get_the_author function, it is a predefined WordPress method that always returns the name of the author.
If you are creating any page, post, or anything in WordPress it should have the author, and the function will return the author name.
So if in your case it is not returning the name, there might be some other reasons behind it.

But what you are trying to implement its completely part of customization and theme customization is not covered in theme support.
I would suggest you hire a developer who can assist you to do the customization or you can avail our newly launched service called One

Thanks