Posted 4 months ago #
I just installed 3.0.4 and am having a problem with the author archive page. When the plugin is activated, I see the first post repeated multiple times:
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/1060/coauthorsplusactivated.jpg
When I deactivate the plugin, I see each of the authors posts:
http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/4554/coauthorsplusdeactivate.jpg
Posted 4 months ago #
Posted 4 months ago #
I applied the code fix reference at http://pastebin.com/Lb89JP17 on the above mentioned link. This was a replacement of posts_join_filter function. I saw no difference in the way the author archive page was displayed. It still is repeating the author's same post multiple times. When I deactive the plugin, I see each of the author's individual posts.
Any other suggestions?
Posted 4 months ago #
@rzeisler did you edit the user's user_nicename value by chance? Is this problem happening with different users?
Posted 4 months ago #
Is the user_nicename the field that is displayed as Nickname under Edit User?
If the answer is yes, then yes, most user's Nicknames are changed to be their name followed by a title (like 'John Smith, Chief Executive Officer, XYZ Company'). and then this is used as the 'Display name publicly as' setting.
Are you using this field as a 'key' instead of the user_id?
Are you assuming that the Username and Nickname are always equal?
Posted 4 months ago #
You also asked if this problem was happening with different users. The answer is yes, it is happening to different users, but I only included the one example above.
Posted 4 months ago #
Can you see if the discussion in this thread is relevant to your issue?
Posted 4 months ago #
Read a little bit of the discussion thread. I used mysql to dump the wp_user table, displaying user_login and user_nicename fields. Rarely do they ever match. Many of the user_login values are for example 'John.Smith' and the user_nicename becomes 'john-smith'.
I don't know if case matters in your comparison, but anytime a user's user_login has uppercase characters, the user_nicename replaces it with lowercase characters.
Any blank character (space) is allowed in user_login but is replaced with a dash in the user_nicename.
Any period is allowed in the user_login but is replaced with a dash in the user_nicename.
I did not use a plugin that allowed me to modify the user_nicename. They are what the system created.
Posted 4 months ago #
Odd. It doesn't sound like this is that same issue. Can you provide the code you're using to output the author profile page?
Posted 4 months ago #
This is the _post.php file from my theme:
Is this what you are looking for?
Posted 4 months ago #
Do you have an author.php file?
Posted 4 months ago #
Very interesting. On my website, I've noticed that only the authors who don't share an article with someone else have repeating posts on their author page. I tested my hypothesis by adding a second author to one of the single-author posts and that fixed my problem.
I'm still very confused and have no idea why this worked. Hopefully, this provides you guys with some sort of clue.
Posted 4 months ago #
@Daniel Bachhuber - my theme does not have an author.php file.
Posted 4 months ago #
Based on @Wp Yoda's comment, I added another author to a post and now the author page for both authors displays properly. The author with multiple posts now shows all the different posts. The author that I added only shows the one post (that author previously had zero posts).
Then I went to another post for a different author. I verified that on the author page it showed the first article repeating. I then edited the post and clicked the Update button (changed nothing in the post). Then I viewed the post and click on the author (coauthor_post_links) link and I see all the posts for that author.
I am not sure what is changing when I click the Update button, but something is "fixing" the problem that is causing the repeating posts on the author page.
Thoughts?
Posted 4 months ago #
I backed out the code fix referenced at http://pastebin.com/Lb89JP17 that I had previously installed. I then updated (no changes) a post for an author that was showing repeating posts for the same article. When I went to the author page (by clicking on the coauthor_post_links) all was good, no repeating/duplicate posts.
Each time I update a post (making no changes), the author page for that author will now show their posts correctly.
It appears that something is going on when you update a post that fixes the problem. Is there any way to do this in mass?
Posted 4 months ago #
Co-Authors Plus uses a custom taxonomy behind the scenes to associate bylines with posts. I suspect what's happening is that you don't have terms for each author and this is causing some bugginess. I'll see if I can track it down.
In the interim, hitting Update on one post per author should do the trick. There's a wp-cli command you can use instead if you're familiar.
Posted 4 months ago #
What does "you don't have terms for each author" mean? Is this something I can see in SQL or in the UI?
Posted 4 months ago #
There isn't a UI for it, but you can look at your wp_terms or similar table to see a bunch of rows that correlate with your authors.
Posted 4 months ago #
I took a look at wp_terms. Toward the bottom of the table, I see entries for several authors (the ones I did the update post on). They look something like this:
name slug
john.smith cap-john-smith
I assume that the name is the user_login since it can includes uppercase letters, periods, and spaces, unlike the user_nicename.
The slug is cap- plus the user_nicename because the end of the cap- has been normalized to not include uppercase or special characters.
Posted 4 months ago #
Yep, good sleuthing. How many authors do you need to create terms for?
Posted 4 months ago #
106 authors
Posted 4 months ago #
Try adding this to your theme's functions.php and hitting refresh in the admin (or a few times if it times out):
add_action( 'admin_init', 'dbx_update_author_terms' );
function dbx_update_author_terms() {
global $coauthors_plus;
$users = get_users();
if ( ! $users )
return;
foreach( $users as $user ) {
$coauthors_plus->update_author_term( $user );
}
}It's basically creating a term for each author if the term doesn't yet exist. You'll want to remove the code snippet as soon as you're done.
Posted 4 months ago #
I will go try the above code now. You could use the register_activation_hook function to call this code when the plugin is activated.
Posted 4 months ago #
The above code did exactly what I would expect it to do. It added the missing entries to wp_terms and all the author pages now work. This was about 90 additional entries. Much nicer then if I had to find all the appropriate posts and click update on each one.
I am going to do a little more testing to make sure that new users I create are added to wp_terms either when I add the user or the first time I add them as a coauthor in a post.
Posted 4 months ago #
I installed the plugin in production, run the script to popuplate wp_terms, and then added the coauthors to all the posts that required them.
I did notice that when I installed the plugin (maybe after the script ran), all the Posts counts in Users were zeros, instead of the actual number of posts the user had authored. As I updated the coauthors, then the Posts counts were updated to the correct number. This required me to go to at least one post for any author who wasn't used as a coauthor and click Update to have the Posts count show up in Users.
Posted 4 months ago #
I did notice that when I installed the plugin (maybe after the script ran), all the Posts counts in Users were zeros, instead of the actual number of posts the user had authored. As I updated the coauthors, then the Posts counts were updated to the correct number.
Odd. Sorry about that. I'll take a look.
Posted 3 months ago #
Will this fix prompt a new version of Co-Authors Plus or will one have to do the fix by hand? Also, what could one have done to avoid this from happening in the first place?
Posted 3 months ago #
The duplicate posts should is fixed and will be available in the next version. You can download the development version if you need a quicker fix.
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