I'm having an issue with placing the author name in the right place on a single post page (single.php). I would like to have the author name between the post title and the tags field, but that doesn't work.

I'm trying to place the name has a h4 field like so: <h4><?php the_author(); ?></h4>

It doesn't work before the_content() is called, but starts working immediately after the_content() is called.

Am I missing something?

you might want to put it in the sub Template 'postformat'

Does this not change the format for the excerpts on the list of posts? I would like to add the author to the actual post page.

It seems that there is a problem with retreiving the author meta data. I have a message into the developer and am waiting a response.

Any update yet?

He is working on a new release but that is all I know at this point.

hi there,

not able either to sucessfully use "the_author_posts_link()" in single.php before "the_content()" is called in the template...

guess the same issue as mentionned by gantred... any news ???

this is quite embarrasing...

cheers
raf

I've reported it. If you put it AFTER the_content() it will work.

Originally Posted by juggledad

I've reported it. If you put it AFTER the_content() it will work.

yep, i saw this from previous posts. it remains a problem if you want something like :

______________________________
The post title
published by author on date

the content of the post
_____________________________

which is quite a common and logical display.

thanks for having reported anyway... will be waiting for upgrade

Do you think it should work better if a physical template is used ?? (i'll give a try and let you know...)

cheers
raf

Any progress on this? I have the same issue.

I haven't heard anything from the developer.

I made a separate main template for each author. So under Appearance>Montezuma Option>Main Templates I selected "add main template," I called it "Author's Name-Template," and I opted that it be a copy of the "single" template. Then I altered it so that right after the closing </h1> tag of the post title section I put in a line saying "<h3>Authors Name</h3>".

This means that each author always has to select a separate template -- but it does make it look good to the reader.

This may be too hokey for you, but in case it works for someone I wanted to share.

Yay! I've solved it!

Edit three lines in the file called parse_php.php, starting at line 28, as follows:

	$need_loop = array( 'the_content', 'the_author' );
	// not only the_content needs loop
	if( ! in_the_loop() && in_array( $function_name, $need_loop ) ) {

So... Add the name of every single wordpress function (which requires the loop) you want to use to the $need_loop array.
Moreover, add !in_the_loop() constraint.

And that's all. Enjoy!

Excellent, thanks very much!

Fixed with PATCH 113-06: the_author and other 'Limited PHP code' don't all work