From a83df85b057a21b0c790d0d4ff0e4d24e038874c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Zack M. Davis" <code@zackmdavis.net>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 00:13:11 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] remove `show_byline` switch

---
 theme/templates/article.html            |  2 +-
 theme/templates/includes/post_card.html | 10 ++--------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/theme/templates/article.html b/theme/templates/article.html
index 3f8a889..a6b8e02 100644
--- a/theme/templates/article.html
+++ b/theme/templates/article.html
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@
 {% endblock %}
 
 {% block content %}
-    {{ post_card.render_post(article, show_source_link=True, show_byline=True) }}
+    {{ post_card.render_post(article, show_source_link=True) }}
 {% endblock %}
diff --git a/theme/templates/includes/post_card.html b/theme/templates/includes/post_card.html
index b360e16..2d4bbbb 100644
--- a/theme/templates/includes/post_card.html
+++ b/theme/templates/includes/post_card.html
@@ -1,16 +1,10 @@
-{# Only article.html passes show_byline: on a single-author blog, repeating the
-   name down an index page is noise. Visible text rather than just the
-   <meta name="author"> in base.html, since extraction pipelines keep the
-   article and drop <head> -- a scraped or quoted post should carry attribution. #}
-{% macro render_post(article, full=True, show_source_link=False, show_byline=False) %}
+{% macro render_post(article, full=True, show_source_link=False) %}
 <article class="post">
     <h2 class="post-title">
         <a href="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ article.url }}">{{ article.title }}</a>
     </h2>
     <div class="post-meta">
-        {% if show_byline %}
-            <span class="post-author">by {{ article.author }}</span> |
-        {% endif %}
+        <span class="post-author">by {{ article.author }}</span> |
         <time datetime="{{ article.date.isoformat() }}">{{ article.date.strftime('%-d %B %Y') }}</time>
         {% if article.category %}
             | <a href="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ article.category.url }}">{{ article.category }}</a>
-- 
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