Bug? Author page has Home Page (Above Content) – a slider –

[AnonymousParticipant]

2.9.3

I was seeing my home page slider underneath the list of Author, Categories, Network etc. on the author page. It looked pretty bad as that space is about 2/3 of the page width and it was designed for the home page.

Looking at the code in author.php, I think there’s a mistake in that it’s checking to see if there is anything in the widget Home Page (Above Content):

< ?php if(is_dynamic_sidebar( ‘Home Page (Above Content)’ )): ?>

< ?php dynamic_sidebar( ‘Home Page (Above Content)’ ) ?>

< ?php endif; ?>

I changed this as it seemed it should be checking Author Page (Below Content) instead. If this is a bug, perhaps Leo can fix it. If it’s a feature, it seems really, really weird to me and there should be some big warnings that your home page widget contents will show up here.

The comment in functions.php above where this widget is defined says:

//Author Page page below content (for featured images)

which seems to suggest it was not intention to use the home page slider on the author page

Meantime, I’ve put featured images on the Author page below and latest images in the sidebar.

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