I'm building a site where text and photos are often provided by different people. I want to make it so that the post meta section says, "text by Person X | photos by Person Y."

What's the best way to do that?

Thanks,
—Peter

I am a web developer, I just don't know which file to copy over into the child theme. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. I can create custom fields, but I'm not sure which theme file is outputting the metadata at the top of each post.

Never mind, I figured it out myself.

For anyone else who's interested in this mod, you'll need to get freaky with the PHP in content-single-full.php — or at least that's the one that did it for me based on my theme settings. Other files you may need to putz around with include content-single.php, content-standard.php, and/or content-classic.php.

You're looking for the <span> labeled with the class "author-post." Pulling up a custom field requires the following code:

<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'key', true); ?>

Where key = the name of your custom field.

Depending on how deep you want to go with built-in WP functions and whatnot, you can create some fairly elegant solutions using this as a springboard. If I come up with something slick, I'll post it here for other folks.

And for the record, not thrilled with the support from PenciDesign on this. "You'll need to hire a developer." Yeah, thanks.

This pretty much does the trick. Add a custom field named image_credit (value = the photographer's name) if you want to list an unlinked name, and image_credit_id (value = user ID) if you want to have the author's name linked to their author archive.

*****

<span class="image-credits">

<?php
$imageCredit = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image_credit', true);
$imageCreditId = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image_credit_id', true);

if ($imageCreditId) { ?>
     | images by <a class="author-url" href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url( $imageCreditId ); ?>">
    <?php echo get_the_author_meta('display_name', 1); ?>

<?php
} elseif ($imageCredit) { ?>
     | images by <?php echo $imageCredit; ?>
}

<?php } else { // do nothing; }
?>
</span>

*****

<span class="author-post">
    <?php coauthors_posts_links(' and ', ' | images by ', 'written by ', '', true); ?>
</span>