WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Attribution in all post's bylines gone...??? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Attribution in all post's bylines gone...??? en Sun, 19 May 2013 20:21:29 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 johndilligent on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-755209 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:15:55 +0000 johndilligent 755209@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ First I would like to thank all involved for their
imput and suggestions. I hope everyone had
a good Thanksgiving.

The byline has not returned to my theme. But
thank you Sacred Path for a better work-around
option. I think I will do this. I HATED losing my
categories but knew of no other way to approach
it.

What's the logic for the theme function changes?
That's actually not the only change that occurred
to the Greyzed theme at that point in time, and
none of them were good. It looks like the thrust
here travelled along the avenue of anonymity,
privacy, whatever... my search engine queries,
share queries, etc. all got dumbed-down so I
can't track any of them back to their source as I
could do before the recent changes.

Up 'til now, "Referrers > Search Engines" listed all
of them separately with links so I could track each
black to their source. Now there's just a hit count
grouped under Google, Bing, etc. If there are links
they just come back to Google or Bing or whatever.

Same thing with Shares -- before this occurred I
could backtrack an email share to an actual email
handle and address-- a specific account. No longer.
When I click on those links now, they send me to
my own blog.

Bad changes all these. I feel like I lost some pow-
erful tools in the process. With the byline thing,
it's like... "Why"? Why fix it if it's not broke? But it
is now. I lost my post attribution and fifty links out
on the web with my name on them. It was helping
to get my name out and incorporated into the
SERPS, and that is a big thing to me as I'm actual-
ly attempting to brand it. It also helps to retain at-
tribution on wholesale copy and paste jobs of my
articles, which I have been coming across more
frequently with the passage of time. It was actually
stumbling over one of these with no attribution
whatsoever that led to my discovering I no longer
had any on my own site either -- it was gone...

So I'm just wondering who this benefited from this
and why it was done, assuming everything happens
for a reason. Does it save server space and help to
cut costs?

Thanks....

]]> timethief on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-753210 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:31:19 +0000 timethief 753210@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @lmdl09
Thanks for posting to let us know the author byline has been restored for single author's on the Vostok theme. Happy blogging! :)

]]> lmdl09 on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-752874 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:44:51 +0000 lmdl09 752874@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ As a poster on this thread, I am happy to note that as of today, the byline has been restored on my blog -- and am, in the spirit of the holiday, thankful!

]]> timethief on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-752823 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:15:47 +0000 timethief 752823@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ + 1 Wank.

]]> thesacredpath on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-752821 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:14:38 +0000 thesacredpath 752821@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ +1 Wank.

]]> wank on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-752817 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:09:52 +0000 wank 752817@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The fact that some themes included the post author on all posts and some didn't has been a problem for years; it limited the choice of themes for multi-author blogs (unless they resorted to workarounds like including the author's name in the body of the post) and lumbered others with a byline they didn't want or need.

So it's very unfortunate that Matt's aversion to options means that people can't choose for themselves whether they want author names to be displayed. Just as there are individuals who want to keep their name on their posts, I'm sure there are some multi-author blogs out there using the above-mentioned workaround who'll groan at the prospect of having to go back and edit all the bylines out of their archives.

If you can give users the choice of having snow on their blogs or ticking a mysterious box for 'Fun mode' , then your databases are not yet in such a fragile state that they cannot accommodate a couple of extra fields for basic functions like 'author name display' or 'disable carousel-style galleries'. Priorities, people, please.

]]> auxclass on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-751480 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:31:56 +0000 auxclass 751480@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You be welcome & good luck

yes this was not one of their better ideas - sort of a turkey I think.

]]> lmdl09 on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-751477 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:24:56 +0000 lmdl09 751477@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for your answer, auxclass. Hope it works.Quite amazing that we have to jump through these hoops just to have a byline on our posts.

]]> auxclass on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-751469 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:16:01 +0000 auxclass 751469@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The workaround is to add a new or second user to your blog and then have the "new" user publish on Post.

The new user can be you - you do need to use a different email address for the second user.

Or if you have a friend that has a WordPress.COM blog you could add them as a "Contributor" to your blog and have them make one post (or you as the Admin can make the Post for them and change the Author to them - page down on the Edit Post page) - a Contributor can write but all of their stuff needs to be approved before they are published so you are still in command of what they can put on your blog.

]]> lmdl09 on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-751454 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:03:26 +0000 lmdl09 751454@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Are not the majority of blogs on WordPress single-authored? I would think that most expect to see attribution for their posts. This imposed anonymity makes absolutely no sense. And am still not clear on the work-around, either.

]]> auxclass on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-750991 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:53:41 +0000 auxclass 750991@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Just what I wanted to do today - really improve the look of my site - publish a junk Post on a professional site - a real class addition - this makes two turkeys in a row - must be by the staff in the U.S. as it is Thanksgiving coming up so maybe WordPress.COM does not give turkeys to their employes so the troops decided to make their own turkey.

]]> thesacredpath on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-750980 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:23:41 +0000 thesacredpath 750980@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for verifying that Panos. At least we have a workaround to suggest, and the upside is it will bloat the number of user accounts here at wordpress.com. It will be interesting to see how many more notice and ask about this.

]]> panaghiotisadam on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-750979 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:19:16 +0000 panaghiotisadam 750979@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No: there must be at least one published post by a second author.

]]> thesacredpath on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-750927 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:08:48 +0000 thesacredpath 750927@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You know, you might even see if just adding the author will do it without making a post. I'm not sure what triggers the author/no author axe.

]]> thesacredpath on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-750921 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:48:34 +0000 thesacredpath 750921@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ignore the "so it" at the end of my post above.

]]> thesacredpath on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-750919 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:46:35 +0000 thesacredpath 750919@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @johndilligent, this is a lousy workaround, and should NOT be something you have to do, but sign up for a throw-away email address, create a new account here (username only) and then invite the username as an author on your site and make one post under that author name and date it back to around the time you first started your site so it.

]]> auxclass on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-750913 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:32:28 +0000 auxclass 750913@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Another great leap backward - why hide who is the author just because only one person is writing in a blog - many sites don't have a lot of ID for the authors - has more class than just a blank line or making us go back and add the author in some sort of byline -

Real dumb idea to turn off the ID or make us do some jerk of a workaround - the new gallery is a piece of junk also - really made things much less friendly and I hate it -

]]> thesacredpath on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-750910 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:24:39 +0000 thesacredpath 750910@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Rather than multi-author/single author triggering whether the author shows or not, I would prefer to be able to choose under theme options. There are a good number of single authors our there that would like that choice based on posts I've seen in the forums over the years.

]]> michiecat on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-750905 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:00:39 +0000 michiecat 750905@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We're in the process of making changes to the way bylines work for our themes, and this explains why you are no longer seeing the bylines. Bylines will only be displayed on multi-author blogs -- that is, blogs that have at least two authors with published posts.

]]> johndilligent on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-748478 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:42:18 +0000 johndilligent 748478@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks TT, we definitely have a problem.
Logically the code in the master template
has been altered or whatever. I've been
'round 'n 'round over it on my end, and
there's really nothing we can do from the
dashboard. I ended-up circumventing the
whole process by adding: "by John Dilli-
gent" as a category, then shifting all posts
from whatever their respective categories
were initially to that category. I also made
it the default category for all new posts.
So I lost my "Categories" function, but re-
claimed my attribution in the byline. A
mixed bag, in other words. I hope ya'll can
find a way to fix this though....

John

]]> timethief on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-748370 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:20:59 +0000 timethief 748370@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Edit: "will be moved " I just noticed that it has been moved lol :D

]]> timethief on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-748367 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:19:28 +0000 timethief 748367@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

Am currently waiting for a response from support.

Thanks for letting us know you have contacted Support Staff about this issue in Vostok. Note that this thread will be moved to the Themes Forum where Themes Staff will respond to it.

]]> lmdl09 on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-748365 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:17:45 +0000 lmdl09 748365@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This is clearly a problem that's suddenly affected several themes, as I'm using Vostok and have the same issue..To compound the situation, the byline has disappeared in single-post view as well.

Am currently waiting for a response from support.

]]> timethief on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-748278 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:24:48 +0000 timethief 748278@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi again John,
I'm just speculating that Themes Staff may be making changes. I don't know if they are or not. Thanks for the weekend well wishes. I hope you have a good one too. It's snowing here and snow is rare where I live on the West Coast of Canada. :)

]]> johndilligent on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-748265 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:09:12 +0000 johndilligent 748265@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hey TT,

No I haven't done anything.

Okay, thanks, I didn't know that.

Happy Holidays,

John

]]> timethief on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-748260 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:02:00 +0000 timethief 748260@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ As far as I know Greyzed ought to be displaying an author's byline.

Long shot: I'm not sure if this is a factor or not but have you removed the Author’s profile in Users > My Profile?

P.S. I have flagged this thread so it gets moved to the Themes Forum. Themes Staff monitor threads in that forums and can tell us what's going on.

]]> johndilligent on "Attribution in all post's bylines gone...???" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/attribution-in-all-posts-bylines-gone#post-748257 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:56:04 +0000 johndilligent 748257@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hey,

I've just noticed that on my Greyzed - themed blog,
The line of info just under the header (title) for each
post has somehow been altered by the deletion of
"by John Dilligent".

They all did say, for example:

"Posted on July 17, 2011 in UFOs by John Dilligent"

Now they all say, for exammple:

"Posted on July 17, 2011 in UFOs

What could have happened here and how can I cor-
rect it?

Thanks!

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