Display categories in post meta section

[flavius]

Hello,

How do I display each post’s category in the post meta section (under Author) on the blog page and recent posts?

Many thanks.

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Hi

It’s not currently available, you would need to edit the theme files

– Kyle

[flavius]

Hi Kyle,

I’m comfortable editing theme files. Any chance you could point me in the right direction?

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Go to atelier/swift-framework/content/sf-post-formats.php, find:

// DETAILS SETUP
            $item_details = "";
            if ( $single_author && ! $remove_dates ) {
                $item_details .= '<div class="blog-item-details">' . sprintf( __( 'In %1$s on <time datetime="%2$s">%3$s</time>', 'swiftframework' ), $post_categories, $post_date_str, $post_date ) . '</div>';
            } else if ( ! $remove_dates ) {
                $item_details .= '<div class="blog-item-details">' . sprintf( __( '<span class="author">By <a href="%2$s" rel="author" itemprop="author">%1$s</a></span> in %3$s on <time datetime="%4$s">%5$s</time>', 'swiftframework' ), $post_author, get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ), $post_categories, $post_date_str, $post_date ) . '</div>';
            } else if ( ! $single_author ) {
                $item_details .= '<div class="blog-item-details">' . sprintf( __( '<span class="author">By <a href="%2$s" rel="author" itemprop="author">%1$s</a></span> in %3$s', 'swiftframework' ), $post_author, get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ), $post_categories ) . '</div>';
            }

– Kyle

[flavius]

Hi Kyle,

Thanks for your suggestion. I found a better way to display categories which was to copy the sf_get_post_details function from includes/sf-theme-functions.php to the functions.php file in my child theme folder.

I then edited the copied sf_get_post_details function as follows to get categories to appear in the post meta data.

REPLACED:

if ( !$single_author && comments_open() ) {
$post_details .= ‘<div class=”blog-item-details”><span class=”author”>’ . sprintf( __( ‘By %1$s‘, ‘swiftframework’ ), $post_author, get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( ‘ID’ ) ) ) . ‘</span>’;
if ( $recent_post ) {
$post_details .= ‘ / <span>’. $comments .'</span>’;
}
$post_details .= ‘</div>’;
} else if ( $single_author && comments_open() ) {
$post_details .= ‘<div class=”post-item-details”><span>’. $comments .'</span></div>’;
} else {
$post_details .= ‘<span class=”author”>’ . sprintf( __( ‘By %1$s‘, ‘swiftframework’ ), $post_author, get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( ‘ID’ ) ) ) . ‘</span>’;
}

WITH:

if ( !$single_author && comments_open() ) {
$post_details .= ‘<div class=”blog-item-details”><span class=”author”>’ . sprintf( __( ‘By %1$s‘, ‘swift framework’ ), $post_author, get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( ‘ID’ ) ) ) . ‘ in ‘ . $post_categories . ‘</span>’;
if ( $recent_post ) {
$post_details .= ‘<span class=”comments”> / ‘. $comments .'</span>’;
}
$post_details .= ‘</div>’;
} else if ( $single_author && comments_open() ) {
$post_details .= ‘<div class=”post-item-details”><span>’. $comments .'</span></div>’;
} else {
$post_details .= ‘<span class=”author”>’ . sprintf( __( ‘By %1$s‘, ‘swift framework’ ), $post_author, get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( ‘ID’ ) ) ) . ‘ in ‘ . $post_categories . ‘</span>’;
}

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Ok great