How to display tag on top of article and author at the bottom

Question

I would like to display the tags at the top of the article but the author at the bottom. One way to do that would be to tweak the split option for Position of Article Info in Article Manager Options, because it displays the tags below and the author above (I would just have to find the .php doing this and exchange the code for tags and author).

● If you think this is the best way to do it, where is this php?

● If you think there is a better way to do what I want, how could I do it?

I looked into templates\proto\html\com_content\article\default.php (or to be accurate, an override of this file) but I could find a code setting up the position of article info.

Answer 1

Set position of info above to keep tags in that position and make an override of com_content/views/article/tmpl/default.php with this changes:

Line 76 - remove or comment this statement:

echo JLayoutHelper::render('joomla.content.info_block.block', array('item' => $this->item, 'params' => $params, 'position' => 'above'));

in this way the view will not load author and other info in this position

Add statement to print author where you want to display it with this code:

echo JLayoutHelper::render('joomla.content.info_block.author', array('item' => $this->item, 'params' => $params, 'position' => 'below'));

JLayoutHelper refers to the file path of the first parameter, in this case refers to /layouts/joomla/content/info_block/author.php

Anyway it's better to use an override instead of editing core files.