Sorry, Chris; I’ll need to look at this, as off the top of my head, I’m not seeing why it doesn’t work, either. Have you given the development version a try?
My suggestion in your other thread to upgrade to 1.0.5 still holds, as that fix was back-ported from the development build. So, if you find that 1.0.5 addresses that problem, you should still be fine moving to the development build. (Just read the topic stuck to the support threads here which outlines the download and installation procedure for the development build.)
Cheers
Lewis
PS – You’re welcome for the support, and my apologies (to all) for my late follow-up.
Hi Lewis,
the problem remains also in 1.0.5.
For me there is no urgency with this issue. (I’m currently the only author and therefore can use a hardcoded name in the PDF 😉 )
I will skip using the development build for now since I don’t have an appropriate test environment.
Can you please confirm if it’s an issue in the plugin?
Thanks again 🙂
Chris
Thanks for confirming my suspicion, Chris, that this issue has not been addressed with the more recent tweaks I made (for 1.0.5, at least).
Any difference if you use the_author() instead of get_the_author() ? I’m also wondering whether the issue is related to the fact that get_the_author() (and the_author(), for that matter) must be used within the loop, but I don’t believe that restriction applies to get_the_date(). Thus, we are able to catch the return of get_the_date(), but not get_the_author() (just a guess; I’ll really need to test this against a few of these similar functions).
I’ll open a ticket for this in my internal bug tracker, and we’ll keep this thread open for a while.
Cheers,
Lewis
No difference (Beside that there seems to be a bug in the_author() in WP because the return string contains the name two times 😉 )
HTML/Browser:
the_author(): EntrappedEntrapped
get_the_author(): Entrapped
the_date(): 21. Juni 2014
get_the_date(): 21. Juni 2014
PDF:
the_author():
get_the_author():
the_date():
get_the_date(): 21. Juni 2014
So long
Chris