[Support request] post author output – change "by" by something else…

[Eric]

Hello,

I understand that if I want to change the text before the author, within the blog, I have to use a filter. But where do add this filter? In a function file? (I’m having a child theme, but not really using it, acutally not using it at all) or Using Code Snippets like in https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-php/ ?

Besides, I really don’t know how to write this :
Instead of having $date par $author
I wish to have $date – $author

add_filter( ‘generate_post_author_output’,’vero_no_by_to_post_author’ );

function vero_no_by_to_post_author ( $output ) {
return ‘<i class=”fa fa-user-circle” aria-hidden=”true”></i> ‘ . $output;
}

( by the way, in French, “Par” would be better than “de” – maybe I should just change this )

Thanks in advance for your help ,

Véronique

[Leo]

Hi there,

A plugin like this might help: https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/say-what/

The “text domain” you need is: generatepress

[Tom]

Hi there,

Try this if you don’t want to use a plugin:

add_filter( 'generate_post_author_output', 'tu_change_author_by_text' );
function tu_change_author_by_text() {
	printf( ' <span class="byline">%1$s</span>',
		sprintf( '<span class="author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">- <a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">%3$s</span></a></span>',
			esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
			esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts by %s', 'generatepress' ), get_the_author() ) ),
			esc_html( get_the_author() )
		)
	);
}

You can add it like this: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-php/

[Eric]

hello tom, thanks a lot,
sorry, but this code generated many errors : unexpected “)” and even one unexpected “}” …

[Tom]

Ah, sorry about that. Adjusted the code above.

[Eric]

and it works! thanks again Tom.

[Author]

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