Better post author layout management

[Nightgunner5]

With so many plugins trying to override each other and change post_author_title to insert things that aren’t the post author’s title, it just makes sense to let users choose where everything goes.

It's also easier on forum admins that don't know how to use PHP or don't want to edit their theme's files, but want to change the layout of the post author box.

It's simple for a plugin or theme to work both ways:

if ( function_exists( 'bb_post_author_layout' ) ) {
    // Old logic, same as always.
} else {
    // THEMES:
    bb_post_author_layout();

    // PLUGINS:
    function my_plugin_section_foo() {
        echo 'Foo';
    }

    function my_plugin_section_bar() {
        echo 'Bar';
    }

    function my_plugin_post_author_sections_add( $sections ) {
        $sections[] = 'my_plugin_section_foo';
        $sections[] = 'my_plugin_section_bar';
        return $sections;
    }
    add_filter( 'bb_post_author_layout_sections', 'my_plugin_post_author_sections_add' );
}

[Nightgunner5]

Additionally, plugins that only use the old method will still work, but they won't be separate from the author title block (assuming they use that one).

For plugins like Post Count Plus that remove the title, this simply turns the title block into a Post Count Plus block.

[Nightgunner5]

Allow plugins to return false, making the before and after not take up space.

[Nightgunner5]

Oops - the example is backwards. There should be a ! before function_exists

[johnjamesjacoby]

!Nightgunner5 - Still care to clean this up?

[mordauk]

Do we still want to do this? I'll take over if so.