{"id":247,"date":"2019-02-12T10:20:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T09:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/molongui_author_name\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T13:47:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:47:19","slug":"molongui_author_name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/molongui_author_name\/","title":{"rendered":"molongui_author_name"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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This shortcode allows you to display the name of the current post author if no attributes are provided or the name of a given author if you provide the author ID and author type.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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On co-authored posts, only the name of the main author \u2014first author on the list \u2014 is displayed. If you wish to display all the author names for a co-authored post, check out the molongui_post_byline<\/a><\/strong> shortcode.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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It can be used anywhere within WordPress where shortcodes are supported. For most users, this will primarily be within the content of a WordPress post or page or the sidebar.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The trivial shortcode would be:<\/p>\n

Editor input<\/p>

[molongui_author_name]<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

That would display the current post’s author name as text. Nothing fancy but very useful in many cases. Check below what the output would look like:<\/p>\n

Frontend output<\/p>

Colleen Vance<\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Check out below all the available attributes this shortcode can take:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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idoptional<\/sub><\/div>
Author ID whose data you want to get.<\/div>
Accepts integer as author ID.<\/div>
Defaults to current post author ID<\/span>.<\/div>
Available since version 1.0.0.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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typeoptional<\/sub><\/div>
The type of author.<\/div>
Accepts Accepts “user” or “guest”.<\/div>
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Whether to display a message in case of error.<\/div>
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This shortcode allows you to display the name of the current post author if no attributes are provided or the name of a given author if you provide the author ID and author type. Important On co-authored posts, only the name of the main author \u2014first author on the list \u2014 is displayed. If you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authorship","category-doc","tag-shortcodes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2600,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/2600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}