Wordpress Author box Control Function - php

Question

Hello friends,
i need little help in Wordpress. I am trying to hide the authorbox that appears under the post for specific user only.
Example if post i am looking into is posted by admin, then i want to hide the authorbox under post content that is posted by admin, but should show for all other users ? i tried different functions but not able to success on this.
I want to completly hide the authorbox, i know it can be done with css code that is
.author-box { display:none;}
but this hides the overall authorbox of complete them, i just want to hide the authorbox on the posts that are made by admin ?
i am using genesis framework, so please suggest if any help you can make here.
Thanks

Answer 1

In your theme's functions.php file, add something like this:
function remove_my_post_metabox() {
global $post;
// If the post author ID is 1, then remove the meta box
// You would need to find the ID of the author, then put it in place of the 1
if ( $post->post_author == 1) {
remove_meta_box( 'authordiv','post','normal' ); // Author Metabox
}
}
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'remove_my_post_metabox' );
If you need to find out the role of the author, and truly do it based on the role (admin, for example), then it would be more like this:
function remove_my_post_metabox() {
global $post;
// If there's no author for the post, get out!
if ( ! $post->post_author) {
return;
}
// Load the user
$user = new WP_User( $post->post_author );
// Set "admin" flag
$is_admin = FALSE;
// Check the user roles
if ( !empty( $user->roles ) && is_array( $user->roles ) ) {
foreach ( $user->roles as $role ) {
if ( $role == 'administrator' ) {
$is_admin = TRUE;
}
}
}
// Lastly, if they ARE an admin, remove the metabox
if ( $is_admin ) {
remove_meta_box( 'authordiv','post','normal' ); // Author Metabox
}
}
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'remove_my_post_metabox' );