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1. thisisedie
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   What I'd like to do is makes the background on different author posts different colors. I can do this for author comments but can't figure out how to do it for author posts. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper & Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   if your theme is using post_class() in the div that contains the post, you can add an author class to it by adding this code to functions.php of your theme:

   //add an author class to post_class() by filter//
   function post_author_id_class($classes) {
   	    global $post;
   	    $classes[] = 'author-'.get_the_author_meta('user_nicename');
   	    return $classes;
   	}
   add_filter('post_class', 'post_author_id_class');

   and then, for instance, style with:
   .author-admin { background: #123456; }

   if your theme does not use post_class(), you might need to edit the template files where you want to show this different background (index.php, single.php, ..) and find the div that surrounds the posts;

   simple example:
   <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

   to include an author class, you could change it to:
   <div class="post<?php echo ' author-' . get_the_author_meta('user_nicename'); ?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

   details depend on your theme; for more help, a link to your site is needed.

3. thisisedie
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Thank you SO much, that worked perfeftly :o)

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