[kumar.dhanasekharan]

I am not a programmer – I am trying to understand where the author template tags are and how to replace them. Any guidance is appreciated. I can do a child theme – which is OK.

[kumar.dhanasekharan]

Ok, but I have not been able to find the existing author template tags in your theme… Which file under which directory carries this information on how you display author information…

[kumar.dhanasekharan]

Thanks! My goal is to be able to assign multiple authors to a single post. If I can do this directly in Clean Retina, let me know how to do it. I found a plug-in that can assign multiple authors to a single post called “Co-Authors Plus”. Here’s what I am trying to do as per the instructions from Co-Authors Plus. https://vip.wordpress.com/documentation/incorporate-co-authors-plus-template-tags-into-your-theme/

Some excerpt from the Co-Authors Plus page:
To integrate Co-Authors Plus, you’ll want to replace existing author template tags in your theme with a simple conditional that uses the Co-Authors Plus template tags if Co-Authors Plus is available. The conditional prevents your site from breaking (e.g. white screen of death) if Co-Authors Plus isn’t activated.

For example, here’s how you would update the_author_posts_link() to instead use coauthors_posts_links():

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if ( function_exists( ‘coauthors_posts_links’ ) ) {
coauthors_posts_links();
} else {
the_author_posts_link();
}
However, the example above is a relatively simplistic way of presenting bylines. There’s a good chance your theme will need an adaptation of it.

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