Author name to appear at top of post

Hi Michelle,

This isn’t a feature that the free theme currently supports, but you can achieve it by adding a filter. There are different ways to add a filter, but here’s a quick step by step showing one way to do it:

• Install and activate the WPCode plugin
• Add a new code snippet with the options shown in this screenshot (these options are important since they ensure that the filter only modifies this specific location)

Here’s the code for the snippet:

add_filter('the_date', function($date) {
	return 'By <a href="' . get_site_url(null, '/about/') . '">' . get_the_author_meta('display_name') . '</a> | ' . $date;
});

The hover feature is a bit more involved, and probably outside the scope of what we can get into here, but hopefully this at least gets you close! 🙂

Hi Michelle,

That’s odd…would you mind linking to a screenshot of the code snippet page where you entered this code? Thanks so much!

For the font size and removing italics, you can paste this CSS into Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS:

.single-post .entry-date {
    font-size: 14px;
    font-style: normal;
}

Thanks again!

Nice- glad it ended up working out!

Sure thing…you can add this in your Additional CSS to take care of the bold and underline:

.single-post .entry-date a {
    font-weight: bold;
    text-decoration: underline;
}

Let us know if you need anything else!