Multiple Authors

[janetmsewell]

Hi,

I’m trying to create a page with multiple authors. I’m using your author element within Cornerstone. If I use the classic author element, I’m able to tell it which author id to display, but I can’t seem to do that with the newer version of the author element. Is there a way to choose which author is displayed within the new author element using an author id?

I’ve installed a plugin called Co-Author Plus – is there a way to pull that metadata? I’m open to using any solution, whether it’s via a looper, the grid plugin etc. I just need to be able to display 2-3 authors on my pages.

Please help! I’ve wasted an entire day on this and have run out of ideas!

[friech]

Hi @janetmsewell,

Thank you for writing in, that new Author element is actually a collection of elements with dynamic content. If you inspect the Headline element of that, you’ll see a dynamic content {{dc:author:display_name}} this will pull the author of the page. So to output a different author, you need to replace that with {{dc:user:display_name user="222"}}, where 222 is the ID of the author that you want to output.

I think that dynamic content technique will let you output multiple author on the same page.

Cheers,

[janetmsewell]

Thank you for such a prompt response!

That’s part of the problem fixed! It changed the headline of the author element, but not the gravatar or the biography. When I click on the gravatar, it doesn’t allow me to change the dynamic content. When I try to click on the dynamic content it simply deletes it, and I have to add the image manually. And when I click on the subheadline, where the bio is generated, I see {{dc:author:bio}} I tried to add {{dc:author:bio user=“42”}} but it’s not generating that bio.

Question 1: How do I change the dynamic content for a gravatar?

Question 2: How do I change the dynamic content for the bio?

Question 3: Is there one element that will allow me to change the dynamic content for the whole author element in one go? Or is will this always be a two-step process?

Question 4: I’ve noticed that the gravatar image is extremely compressed and pixelated. How can I uncompress it? If I add the image manually, it’s much clearer, but I don’t want to have to do that every time, for every author.

You say:

@friech

I think that dynamic content technique will let you output multiple author on the same page.

Question 5: How do I do that? By manually adding the user ID to the dynamic section, or is there a more automatic way of doing it?

As I’ve searched the web, I’ve seen a lot of people asking about multiple authors, is there a way we could request this feature for a future X update?

Thanks for your help!

[christian]

Hey @janetmsewell,

For Question 1: That doesn’t sound like you’re using Dynamic Content. The Dynamic Content is indicated by the small cylinder icon located at the top right corner of the Source option. The number of clicks you would take is 3.

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Question 2: The content of the bio could be updated in WP Admin Menu > Users > Profile >
Biographical Info. If you’re the admin, you can change the bio of users in Users > All Users then edit the profile of a user.

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Question 3: It would be a 2-step process. You need to edit a user’s profile.

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Question 4: This is not set in the builder and depends on the user’s Gravatar setting. You can learn more here https://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/images/

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Question 5:

Regretfully, there’s no way to output multiple authors automatically. You need to use the post ID. I’ll submit your request to our feature tracker though.

Thank you for your feedback.

[janetmsewell]

Thank you so much for all of this! It has helped tremendously!

And thank you for submitting my request to the feature tracker! A plugin you might want to look into emulating is Molongui - it is an incredibly powerful plugin! You guys might want to consider adding it to your extensions package actually, instead of building your own. In the end that’s what I went with as it did everything I needed it to do within their free version, in a much easier way than the built in X possibilities.

Anyway, thank you again for your help!

[prakash_s]

You are most welcome @janetmsewell