Change Distill-style blog to show "Author" instead of "Authors" in header

[royabradley]

I want to use the Distill blog layout, but I am the sole author, so I do not want the header to say "Authors," plural, as it does by default. I simply want it to say "Author," then my name. Apparently, this is quite tricky to accomplish because of the embedded complexities of the Distill layout profile.

I have attempted to modify the _layouts/distill.liquid file with various scripts in place of the <d-byline></d-byline> code, but nothing has worked.

Is there, perhaps, a more straightforward way to accomplish changing "Authors" to "Author"?

[george-gca]

Yes, the distill template is really complex. The easiest way to find this information is to check on the distill scripts exactly for the Authors string. This led me here:

al-folio/assets/js/distillpub/transforms.v2.js

Lines 1030 to 1033 in 1e1ff02

	<div class="byline grid">
	<div class="authors-affiliations grid">
	<h3>Authors</h3>
	<h3>Affiliations</h3>

Which, given the generated url, seems to be the correct place

Change it there, or add some logic to add the s when more than one author is found.