I wish to add a content submission form to my site and I have carried out some testing and can pretty much get all of the required information to appear in a draft post awaiting approval from admin. However, I would like to display the name of the content submission author on the post but at present everything comes up as "admin". Is it possible to do this by automatically creating the author using a custom field when a post is submitted?
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Hi Greendave,
The post author must be a WordPress user. You can "fake" this on the front end by pulling the submitters name from a custom field by customizing the page template used to display these posts.
Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday June 7, 2011 | Permalink -
Hi David,
Thanks for the response. I have figured out how to display posts from people who contribute in the following format:
POST TITLE
Date | Category | NameBODY......
The "Name" is taken from the custom post field set up to fake the author but previously this was a registered user so when you clicked on the "Name" tag you could get an archive of that users posts. Is there any way to leave this in so that registered users archives will be available to click on and non-registered users names will just be displayed?
Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday June 8, 2011 | Permalink -
You could possibly do this but you would have to figure out a way to distinguish between a post created with a real user and posts not created by real users. You'd then have to use PHP to determine if the author archive link should be there or not.
Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday June 8, 2011 | Permalink
