Title: [Plugin: Co-Authors Plus] Installing Plugin
Last modified: August 20, 2016
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# [Plugin: Co-Authors Plus] Installing Plugin
* Resolved [Flattergeist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flattergeist/)
* (@flattergeist)
* [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-co-authors-plus-installing-plugin/)
* I’m sorry to ask such a dumb question; I’m not familiar with editing any codes,
so I’m completely lost at the moment.
* I installed the plugin, but I have no idea where to put the code that was given
in “Other Notes”.
I read through almost the whole forum, but I couldn’t find
an explanation that basic.
* “To use them, simply modify the code surrounding all instances of the_author*()
to something like the following example:”
I actually don’t understand which
file of my theme I have to modify. Is it functions.php? I tried to put the following
code in a child-theme, but that didn’t work.
* Please help me! 🙂
* [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/co-authors-plus/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/co-authors-plus/)
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* Plugin Contributor [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/)
* (@danielbachhuber)
* [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-co-authors-plus-installing-plugin/#post-3067065)
* Sorry you’re confused. In order to use Co-Authors Plus, you’ll need to replace
uses of the_author*() template tags with use of coauthors*(). The former is the
code in WordPress core used to print the author names, links to their archive
pages, etc. The latter is how Co-Authors Plus prints the byline information.
* Where those are actually replaced is dependent on which theme you’re using. Is
your theme’s source code publicly available?
* Thread Starter [Flattergeist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flattergeist/)
* (@flattergeist)
* [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-co-authors-plus-installing-plugin/#post-3067085)
* Oh, okay.
* I’m using Twenty Eleven, I just changed some parts of the layout but left the
main structure of the code. My blog is on [http://desillusion.tamtam-berlin.de](http://desillusion.tamtam-berlin.de).
Which file of the theme do you need? I think the style.css file is available,
but that won’t help I guess?
* Plugin Contributor [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/)
* (@danielbachhuber)
* [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-co-authors-plus-installing-plugin/#post-3067099)
* You’ll want to add this function to your theme’s functions.php:
* `function twentyeleven_posted_on() {
printf( __( 'Posted on
[](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-co-authors-plus-installing-plugin/%1$s?output_format=md)
by %5$s', 'twentyeleven'),
esc_url( get_permalink() ), esc_attr( get_the_time() ), esc_attr( get_the_date('
c' ) ), esc_html( get_the_date() ), ( function_exists( 'coauthors_posts_links'))?
coauthors_posts_links( null, null, null, null, false ) : get_the_author_link());}
* If it’s a child theme, it will override TwentyEleven’s declared function that
adds the post meta to the post.
* Hope this helps.
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* Last reply from: [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/)
* Last activity: [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-co-authors-plus-installing-plugin/#post-3067099)
* Status: resolved