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Here’s the code that I mention in the video. Simply open your WordPress template’s file named ‘single.php‘ and paste this code just above ‘the_content‘ tag. Be sure to modify those three pieces of code that we discuss in the video so that it properly reflects you and your website.
<?php $author="Nicholas Cardot"; if(get_the_author()!=$author): ?><p><i>This is a guest post by <?php the_author(); ?>. If you're interested in getting yourself in front of the readers of Site Sketch 101, <a href="http://www.sitesketch101.com/site-sketch-101-wants-you">check out the guest posting guidelines here.</a></i></p><?php endif; ?>
If you have questions, comments or if you need any help then please don’t hesitate to use the comments section of this post.
Eric B. said:
This is a very useful snippet. If you have multiple “official” authors, you could use an array to store their names:
$authors = array( 'Author One', 'Author Two', 'Author Three', );And then just change the if statement to
I think you’re missing a semicolon at the end of your
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Eric B. said:
I’m missing a closing parenthesis. It should be
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Eric B. » Thanks for that great addition. I very highly appreciate it and I’ll jump in there and add that semicolon right now. Thanks.
Deepika said:
I was searching for this.. Thanks for informing about this. I will try this and inform you..
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Deepika » Great. I’m glad that it’s potentially helpful for you. I’m looking forward to your feedback.
Karl Foxley said:
Great tutorial and was just what I was looking for. Thanks Eric B. for adding the multi author section because you’ve saved me having to ask that now.
Regards,
Karl
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Karl Foxley » I’m glad that it’s helpful for you.
Don Gilbert said:
I recently read something similar to this over at wmpu.org. However, it was for showing the entire blogger profile at the bottom of every post on your blog.
I don’t have guest bloggers yet, but I will add this to my site with high hopes.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Don Gilbert » I’m going to explain how to do that later this week and I’m going to be releasing a plugin for that in the near future as well.
Don Gilbert said:
Great! Let me know when it is released. If you need help coding or with support requests – I’m there!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Don Gilbert » Thanks. I’ll definitely let you know. I appreciate the support.
Lee Ka Hoong said:
That’s new to me. I do have guest bloggers for my blog and I add all the thing manually in every guest post I received.
Thanks for sharing the tutorial, and thanks Eric for adding valuable details!
Cheers,
Lee
Nicholas Cardot said:
Lee Ka Hoong » I’m glad you find it useful. I just put it to work on the site here and I figured that others might benefit from the information as well.
Derek Jensen said:
I just added it to my site too because it makes anyone wanting to write a guest post happy.
The key thing to do in that first sentence or two is how are you going to attract more guest posts? You need to be unique and let it reflect your overall blog ‘style’.
Nicholas Cardot said:
Derek Jensen » That’s exactly right. You don’t want it to be tacky. You want it to be catchy, enjoyable, and inviting.
Terry | Charter Title Company said:
Nice, i was wondering about this for my blog. I love this resource. I’m just getting started but want to thank Nicholas.
Nicholas Cardot said:
Terry | Charter Title Company » You’re welcome. I hope that this really helps you out.
Ron Leyba said:
I’m not into programming or PHPing, but I think learning some basic things is essential so I can implement this code up on my site. I am planning to have a collaboration site wherein my writers will be scattered all over out province. With this code, the post they will make will be well organized and they will be give proper credits as well.
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Matt Stratton said:
Wow, what a great tip! I usually try to remember to put in a slug like that for guest posts, but I don’t always remember…and of course, they’re not standardized. Brilliant suggestion.
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