Just to followup, I did end up hacking miniposts.php to do this but it would be nice to have it built-in so I don’t have to do anything during the upgrades. My new output looks like this…
Ode To Bobby “Kenneth the Page” Jindal
by Mad Kane
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If you are interested…
In miniposts.php (plugins directory – miniposts subdirectory):
Replace:
if ($miniposts = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT ID, post_date, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(post_date) AS post_date_unix, post_content, post_excerpt, post_title FROM $wpdb->posts LEFT JOIN $wpdb->postmeta ON ($wpdb->posts.ID = $wpdb->postmeta.post_id) WHERE post_date < ‘$now’ AND post_status = ‘publish’ AND $wpdb->postmeta.meta_key = ‘_mini_post’ AND $wpdb->postmeta.meta_value = ‘1’ ORDER BY post_date DESC” . $limit)) {
With:
if ($miniposts = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT wp_posts.ID, post_date, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(post_date) AS post_date_unix, post_content, post_excerpt, post_title, display_name FROM
$wpdb->posts LEFT JOIN $wpdb->postmeta ON ($wpdb->posts.ID = $wpdb->postmeta.post_id) LEFT JOIN wp_users ON ($wpdb->posts.post_author=wp_users.ID) WHERE post_date <
‘$now’ AND post_status = ‘publish’ AND $wpdb->postmeta.meta_key = ‘_mini_post’ AND $wpdb->postmeta.meta_value = ‘1’ ORDER BY post_date DESC” . $limit)) {
A little further down find:
$meta = str_replace(‘%commentcount%’, $commentcount, $meta);
and add this line under it:
$meta = str_replace(‘%display_name%’, $minipost->display_name, $meta);
Now in your admin area where you can specify the format of output for the miniposts, add %display_name% wherever you’d like it. Mine is now…
<p class=”minipost”>%title%
by %display_name%
%more% (%commentcount% comments)</p>
