Category and author under the title

Thank you for the extra information! Assuming you’ve already created a child theme:

The files you need to copy over from your parent theme to your child theme are content-single.php and content.php.

• content-single.php defines the structure for single posts on your site.
• content.php defines the structure for the posts page on your site.

You will find two functions that the theme calls in these files:

• boardwalk_entry_meta() is used in both files order to output the date above the post’s title.
• boardwalk_entry_footer() is used in content-single.php in order to output the post’s categories and author information at the bottom of a single post.

You can find both of the above functions by visiting the parent theme’s inc/template-tags.php file.

You will need to create a new function in your child theme’s functions.php file that outputs information in a similar way to those two functions.

Name you function something like boardwalk_child_entry_meta() and then call it in your child theme’s content-single.php and content.php files.

Let me know how you get on with that!

You’re on the right path! 🙂

So, you’re right to create a new function and to name it boardwalk_child_entry_meta(). We can borrow the following code from boardwalk_entry_footer(), which outputs information the post’s author and categories:

$categories_list = get_the_category_list( __( ', ', 'boardwalk' ) );
		if ( $categories_list && boardwalk_categorized_blog() ) {
			printf( '<span class="cat-links">' . __( 'Posted in %1$s', 'boardwalk' ) . '</span>', $categories_list );
	}

	if ( 1 != get_theme_mod( 'boardwalk_author_bio' ) ) {
		$byline = sprintf( '<span class="byline">' . _x( 'By %s', 'post author', 'boardwalk' ) . '</span>', '<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="' . esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ) . '">' . esc_html( get_the_author() ) . '</a></span>' );
			echo $byline;
	}

Bringing this into your new child theme’s function, this would leave you with:

if ( ! function_exists( 'boardwalk_child_entry_meta' ) ) :
/**
 * Prints HTML with meta information for the date.
 */
function boardwalk_child_entry_meta() {

	$categories_list = get_the_category_list( __( ', ', 'boardwalk' ) );
		if ( $categories_list && boardwalk_categorized_blog() ) {
			printf( '<span class="cat-links">' . __( 'Posted in %1$s', 'boardwalk' ) . '</span>', $categories_list );
	}

	if ( 1 != get_theme_mod( 'boardwalk_author_bio' ) ) {
		$byline = sprintf( '<span class="byline">' . _x( 'By %s', 'post author', 'boardwalk' ) . '</span>', '<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="' . esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ) . '">' . esc_html( get_the_author() ) . '</a></span>' );
			echo $byline;
	}

	echo '<span class="posted-on">' . $posted_on . '</span>';
}
endif;

Next, you would need to call the above function beneath the title in your child theme’s content-single.php file:

<header class="entry-header">
		<?php the_title( '<h1 class="entry-title">', '</h1>' ); ?>
		<div class="entry-meta">
			<?php boardwalk_child_entry_meta(); ?>
		</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
</header><!-- .entry-header -->

Let me know how you get on with that! The important thing to start with is to get the category and author information beneath the title. It might not be styled correctly at first, but we can work on that afterwards. 🙂

Yay, I’m so glad to hear you were able to get this working. 🙂

Would you be able to provide a link to your site? This makes it a lot easier for me to be able to guide you with the correct CSS.

From my own test site, the following CSS go everything lined up correctly when added to my child theme’s style.css file:

.entry-header .entry-meta a {
    display: inline-block;
    padding-right: 0;
    padding-left: 0;
}

.entry-header .entry-meta span {
    padding-right: 20px;
}

Hope that’s helpful! If you can provide a link to your site then I’ll be happy to guide further, also.

You’re welcome, Lobo. If you have further questions while setting up your theme then please open up another thread on these forums and we’ll help out from there. 🙂