Displaying “Authored on…” but not “Authored by…”

Request Type: 
General Assistance
Author: 
Limor Peer
Issue/Request: 

I see there is a way to disable Authoring Information for news / blogs – however, we would like to keep the date (“Authored on…”) but not display the contributor (“Authored by…”) – is there a way to do that?

To capture the blog post author, and because we (site admins) enter all the content and some of our blog authors are not users, we will add “Author” as a separate field.

Thanks!

Josue Rodriguez on March 12, 2015:

Hello Limor,

For this I can uncheck Display Author & Date Information. This will remove the stamp shoing the author and date. You would have to add the Author field as well as the Published date separately in order to display it was you wish on the site. Would this work?

Josue

Limor Peer on March 12, 2015:

Thanks for the quick reply.

The problem is that the view does not display those fields the way we want them on the home page: one line, italics. We also had the feature text and do not want to lose that.

Note that this is complicated by the fact that we are using the news content type for both news and blog posts so I want to make sure that any changes we make in blogs do not affect the display or functionality of news and vice versa. (So far, on the dev site, it seems OK.)

*The vendor who set up our custom site made it so one field, “Blog contributor,” determines whether it behaves as a news item or a blog post – I can explain more if needed.

Limor Peer on March 12, 2015:

I see this change went into effect as e.g.,

Daniel Biggers
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 10:14am
 
We’d like it one line, italics so it stylistically matches the News and Events views on the homepage:
Daniel Biggers, March 12, 2015 (there is a ISPS-date-format)
 
And also return the feature text..
 
Thanks!
Josue Rodriguez on March 12, 2015:

Hello Limor,

Can you take a look at the home page. Is this the way you wanted to view the blog posts?

Josue

Limor Peer on March 12, 2015:

Hi, 

Stylistically, that is exactly how we want it to display!

But in terms of the author, the Daniel Biggers example illustrates the problem we have – there are two authors and one is not a Yale person.

Where is the author named pulled from for the home page view? We actually have a field we use on content type: Publication called “Long text: field_publication_authors (Author(s))” which may work better? Same with the node itself, e.g., http://isps.yale.edu/news/blog/2015/03/despite-heavy-rhetoric-partisan-c…

Also, please note that the blog view:  http://isps.yale.edu/news/blog does not display the date.

Thanks!

Josue Rodriguez on March 12, 2015:

I’ve added an Author Field and a Publication field. I just filled those in with data from the existing post. You can manually change the author or enter the right one when creating the post. I just gave it fields to fill to put the correct Author and Publication Date. I know the other views dont match just yet. I wanted to make sure the style in the homepage is what you were looking for. I can make the other views match. 

Josue

Limor Peer on March 12, 2015:

Oh, I see – that’s great! I just added the second author to see what it looks like and it works on the homepage view.

Thanks!

-Limor

Josue Rodriguez on March 16, 2015:

Hello Limor,

I’ve updated all the blog views. They should all match now. I added an Author field so that it can be filled in with the actual author name instead of the person entering the data. I incorporated this in the view as well as the publication date which can also be entered during node creation. Let me know if that works.

Josue