Problem: the author’s name always shows as “Root” which is meaningless to the reader.
Solution: First go to /wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/ folder, since I use twentyseventeen so I go to twentyseventeen folder, please change to your theme folder according to your website theme using.
then search “post author” in template-tags.php file, or find it on functions.php file, you will see similar content below(except the function name is different):
function twentynineteen_posted_by() {
printf(
/* translators: 1: SVG icon. 2: post author, only visible to screen readers. 3: author link. */
'<span class="byline">%1$s<span class="screen-reader-text">%2$s</span><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%3$s">%4$s</a></span></span>',
twentynineteen_get_icon_svg( 'person', 16 ),
__( 'Posted by', 'twentynineteen' ),
esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
esc_html( get_the_author() )
);
}
endif;
remove all the content and save:
function twentynineteen_posted_by() {
}
endif;
