Moving the byline to the top

[yagottagotomo1]

How can I move the author byline from the bottom to the top? I've tried in the actions.php file and have only succeeded in butchering things. Any help would be appreciated.

[sayontan]

If you are willing to tinker with actions.php (seems like you are!), this is what you should do:

1. Go to actions.php and look for the function suffusion_post_footer.
2. Comment out these lines:

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   if ((!is_page() && $suf_post_show_posted_by == 'show') || (is_page() && $suf_page_show_posted_by == 'show')) {  ?>
         <span class="author"><?php printf(__('Posted by %1$s at %2$s', 'suf_theme'), '<a href="'.get_author_posts_url(get_the_author_meta('ID')).'">'.get_the_author_meta('display_name').'</a>', sprintf(get_the_time(get_option('time_format')))); ?></span>
        }


3. Go to the function suffusion_print_post_page_title. Depending on whether you want to replace the category or the comments with the author info, replace all occurrences of their code (including the if loops) with the code you just commented out in the other function.

Mind you, though the change is easy it involves a good bit of testing.

[yagottagotomo1]

Thanks. I did it, works like a charm.

[anasqai]

I kept getting "syntax error....... on line....."

I'm just so bad at this and is a total newbie to these.

I'll just have to boldly ask you a favour, yagottagotomo1.

yagottagotomo1: Could you please send a copy of your edited actions.php as I want the author by line below the title post as well as my blog has two authors, it'll make it easier for readers to see the author without having to scroll down.

**EDIT: I saw your blog(googled your nick ), that's how I want it to appear, but I saw the "am/pm" goes to next line instead?

BR,
Qai

[Karikuy]

no success at commenting out the lines, when I do so my site gets corrupted as I cannot see it or reach admin, have to access file on server, can someone post the comment out code, been using // but only seems to comment out the code partially, currently my actions file looks like this as well, a bit different from what sayontan posted.

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function suffusion_post_footer() {

   global $suf_post_show_posted_by, $suf_page_show_posted_by, $suf_post_show_tags;

?>

      <div class="post-footer fix">

<?php

   if ((!is_page() && $suf_post_show_posted_by == 'show') || (is_page() && $suf_page_show_posted_by == 'show')) {  ?>

         <span class="author"><?php printf(__('Posted by %1$s at %2$s', 'suf_theme'), '<a href="'.get_author_posts_url(get_the_author_meta('ID')).'">'.get_the_author_meta('display_name').'</a>', sprintf(get_the_time(get_option('time_format')))); ?></span>

<?php }

   if (!is_page() && $suf_post_show_tags == 'show') { ?>

         <span class="tags"><?php the_tags(__('Tagged with: ', 'suf_theme'),', ','<br />'); ?></span>

<?php } ?>

      </div>

<?php

}

[Karikuy]

Figured it out, after you comment out suffusion_post_footer like this....

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<?php

   /*if ((!is_page() && $suf_post_show_posted_by == 'show') || (is_page() && $suf_page_show_posted_by == 'show')) {  ?>

         <span class="author"><?php printf(__('Posted by %1$s at %2$s', 'suf_theme'), '<a href="'.get_author_posts_url(get_the_author_meta('ID')).'">'.get_the_author_meta('display_name').'</a>', sprintf(get_the_time(get_option('time_format')))); ?></span>

<?php }*/

then in suffusion_print_post_page_title. you change

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if ($suf_post_show_cats == 'show') { ?>

               <span class="category"><?php the_category(', ') ?></span>

<?php   }

with this

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if ($suf_post_show_cats == 'show') { ?>

               <span class="author"><?php printf(__('Posted by %1$s at %2$s', 'suf_theme'), '<a href="'.get_author_posts_url(get_the_author_meta('ID')).'">'.get_the_author_meta('display_name').'</a>', sprintf(get_the_time(get_option('time_format')))); ?></span>

<?php }

for all you non programmers out there.