Title: 3.0 Doesn't Work
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# 3.0 Doesn't Work

 *  Resolved [osm2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/osm2/)
 * (@osm2)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-doesnt-work/)
 * Wonderful plugin, I’ve used it for years.
 * Unfortunately, 3.0 was not adequately tested.
 * – Authors have vanished completely from post edit
    – Some authors vanish from
   various other places after upgrade, including from “coauthors_posts_links” output
   on public website! – thanks for adding filter to “coauthors_posts_links_single”.
   However, this filter has no right to be escaping the HTML output in $args[‘text’].
   I had to disable “esc_html” wrapper from $args[‘text’] output.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/co-authors-plus/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/co-authors-plus/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/)
 * (@danielbachhuber)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-doesnt-work/#post-3207349)
 * Sorry to hear your having trouble 🙁 If it’s any solace, v3.0 was running on 
   dozens of WordPress.com VIP sites for a few months before being released. Yours
   seems to be more of an edge case than the norm.
 * > Authors have vanished completely from post edit
 * A few questions that can help us debug further:
    - For a post that is missing its authors, are you able to reassign authors?
    - Are there any patterns as to which posts are missing authors? Are they older
      posts or newer posts? Have you updated them recently?
    - How many total posts have been affected?
 * > However, this filter has no right to be escaping the HTML output in $args[‘
   > text’].
 * Can you explain why the output shouldn’t be properly sanitized? You can [read more about why you might sanitize here](http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_Sanitizing_and_Escaping_User_Data#Sanitizing:_Cleaning_User_Input).
 *  Thread Starter [osm2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/osm2/)
 * (@osm2)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-doesnt-work/#post-3207359)
 * Thank you for your reply, and your excellent plugin. I’ve used it for a while.
   It’s dependable and works brilliantly.
 * > For a post that is missing its authors, are you able to reassign authors?
 * Most co-authors are successfully echoed in the list of posts (`edit.php`), but
   for any post edited, no longer do I see any co-authors (nor author) module anywhere
   in the post edit page (`post.php?action=edit`). So I am not able to re-assign
   any author or co-authors for any posts.
 * > Are there any patterns as to which posts are missing authors? Are they older
   > posts or newer posts? Have you updated them recently? How many total posts 
   > have been affected?
 * I’m sorry to say, because I had deployed to a live network, I was not able to
   properly investigate before downgrading to 2.6.4.
 * From what I saw on the first `edit.php` posts listing page for my custom post
   type ‘articles’, showing the most-recent 20 posts, two were missing co-authors.
   When I viewed these two posts on the live site, output via the CAP template tags
   also went missing there.
    - I run a multi-site 3.4.2, with no modifications to WP code.
    - Mentionable Plugins:
 *  - _Custom Post Type UI. _All custom post types support “Author”.
    - _WordPress Gzip Compression._
    - I run a simple filter on the ‘coauthors_posts_link’ template tag to prepend
      $args[‘text’] with an author mug and wrap the names and affiliations in google
      rich text snippet markup (using <span>’s). I didn’t consider that ‘coauthors_posts_link’
      template tag may be used not only in the template but also in the WP admin.
      If it indeed is, I suppose I could have bungled it somehow.
 * Thank you for your help. If CAP 3.0 worked for WordPress VIP, it should work 
   for me. So please don’t bother with my case any further. I will re-upgrade to
   3.0 on my development server and figure it out.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/)
 * (@danielbachhuber)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-doesnt-work/#post-3207366)
 * > Most co-authors are successfully echoed in the list of posts (edit.php), but
   > for any post edited, no longer do I see any co-authors (nor author) module 
   > anywhere in the post edit page (post.php?action=edit). So I am not able to 
   > re-assign any author or co-authors for any posts.
 * I suspect I know what this bug is because I ran into something similar. It should
   be fixed in 3.0.1 (just released). We changed how we determine whether you should
   have permission to edit a post. Super admins don’t have any caps to check if 
   they aren’t a user on the blog, so I fixed it by [adding a super admin check](https://github.com/Automattic/Co-Authors-Plus/commit/5e6866954b73fcc4975dfa0f210100d14d4492d9).
 * > From what I saw on the first edit.php posts listing page for my custom post
   > type ‘articles’, showing the most-recent 20 posts, two were missing co-authors.
   > When I viewed these two posts on the live site, output via the CAP template
   > tags also went missing there.
 * That’s really odd. I haven’t been able to reproduce this so any further details
   you can track down would be great.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/)
 * (@danielbachhuber)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-doesnt-work/#post-3207394)
 * > From what I saw on the first edit.php posts listing page for my custom post
   > type ‘articles’, showing the most-recent 20 posts, two were missing co-authors.
   > When I viewed these two posts on the live site, output via the CAP template
   > tags also went missing there.
 * Based on some debugging I’m doing with a friend, I may have tracked this down.
   For the posts missing authors, did you edit the user_nicename value for the author
   by chance?
 *  Thread Starter [osm2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/osm2/)
 * (@osm2)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-doesnt-work/#post-3207404)
 * Thank you for your troubleshooting.
 * I do frequently edit the value of `user_nicename`. I don’t believe any were edited
   after the upgrade, however.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/)
 * (@danielbachhuber)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-doesnt-work/#post-3207412)
 * Ok. We tracked down down the bug to be a manifestation of how Co-Authors Plus
   looks up users and guest authors based on user_nicename.
 * Before v3.0, Co-Authors Plus would look up a user based on their user_login value.
   If I had a user_login of ‘apple’, Co-Authors Plus would look for a term with 
   slug ‘apple’ and vice versa.
 * In v3.0, Co-Authors Plus looks up a user based on their user_nicename value. 
   Typically this is very similar to user_login and should be the exact same as 
   the term slug. Unless, of course, in situations like this where the plugin has
   allowed you to edit the user_nicename. In this particular case the term slug 
   and user_nicename are no longer equivalent and the lookup fails. The term to 
   post relationship is still there, so the byline essentially persists, but Co-
   Authors Plus doesn’t know who to associate the term with.
 * So, let’s talk fixes. There are two things you can do:
    - Edit the user_nicename for any users missing their posts so that their user_nicename
      matches their user_login
    - Edit the slug associated with the user’s term so that it matches their user_nicename
 * On the bright side, for any author terms created after you’ve edited the user_nicename,
   the term slug will be correct and everything will work hunky dory. Any time you
   change the user_nicename though, the slug for the term will need to be updated
   as well.
 *  [Jamil Jonna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonna/)
 * (@jonna)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-doesnt-work/#post-3207413)
 * Hi,
 * This is definitely not the problem I’m having. As you can see from an export 
   of my users, the nicenames and usernames for nearly all of the authors match.
 * [http://i.imgur.com/6kNUV.png](http://i.imgur.com/6kNUV.png)
 * Further, I tried synchronizing the “nickname” (not “nicename” since those were
   all the same) to the username for several authors to see if they would show up
   on their respective posts. They did not. Here is one example:
 * [http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb1277/](http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb1277/)
 * The second author should be “Marta Harnecker” but it does not show up, even after
   editing the author.
 * The only problem that I see is with the “MR webmaster”—the account I use to login
   and edit pages. Now, this user login and nicename do not match. But because there
   is a space in the login (username) and because I **cannot** change the username,
   the two **cannot** be matched since the nicename cannot have spaces. If this 
   is the reason why the coauthors are messed up on all of my posts, I’m going to
   need a better fix than what you suggest.
 * BTW, here are my answers to your questions in the other post on this issue ([http://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-authors-suddenly-vanished-from-posts?replies=7](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-authors-suddenly-vanished-from-posts?replies=7)).
 * > For a post that is missing its authors, are you able to reassign authors?
 * Yes, but see below on the number of posts this affected.
 * > Are there any patterns as to which posts are missing authors? Are they older
   > posts or newer posts? Have you updated them recently?
 * Absolutely none that I could find. As you can see by this screenshot, where authors
   are missing it is totally random:
    [http://i.imgur.com/Yzaxk.png](http://i.imgur.com/Yzaxk.png)
   I have not updated any of these posts recently.
 * > How many total posts have been affected?
 * I would estimate about 250. They are all of the same custom post type. There 
   is an unusual amount of “ok posts” when I sort by date, but it still appears 
   to be totally random.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/)
 * (@danielbachhuber)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-doesnt-work/#post-3207414)
 * > The second author should be “Marta Harnecker” but it does not show up, even
   > after editing the author.
 * Can you share all of Martha’s values in the database now?
 * Also, on this post [http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb1277/](http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb1277/),
   have you hit “Update” since the author started missing? If you did, the byline
   is lost.
 * > But because there is a space in the login (username) and because I cannot change
   > the username, the two cannot be matched since the nicename cannot have spaces.
 * You are correct. The user_nicename is the sanitize_title() version of user_login.
   This means user_nicename is restricted to alphanumeric plus dashes.
 * > As you can see by this screenshot, where authors are missing it is totally 
   > random
 * Do you happen to know the authors that should appear for any of those posts? 
   Can you look in the database and see if there are corresponding terms associated
   with the post? You’d look in wp_term_relationships or similar.
 *  [Jamil Jonna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonna/)
 * (@jonna)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-doesnt-work/#post-3207417)
 * For Marta Harnecker, here are the values:
 * author ID: 186
    login: martaharnecker nicename: martaharnecker term ID: 390
 * The post ID that this coauthor should be linked with is 393. When I search for
   this post ID in terms_relationships–>object_id, I get the following term_taxonomy_id’s.
   I’ve listed their relationships in parentheses:
 * 3 (post type), 11 (category), 37 (category), 388 (tag-chavez), 389 (author-chavez),
   390 (tag-harnecker), 391 (author-harnecker)
 * The only difference with the repeated authors is that one is an author and the
   other is a tag. So, term 390 has the values:
 * name: Marta Harnecker
    slug: martaharnecker
 * And term 391 has the values:
 * name: martaharnecker
    slug: martaharnecker-2
 * This is because for all posts we made sure to add the author names as tags as
   well as coauthors, in case something like this happened. Regardless, this coauthor
   should be linked with this post but it is not.
 * One other thing I should mention, though it should not matter, is that I do not
   use the default prefix.
 *  [Jamil Jonna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonna/)
 * (@jonna)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-doesnt-work/#post-3207419)
 * Is it ok to downgrade to the 2x branch? It does not seem like you’ll be getting
   this fixed any time soon.
 * Thanks.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/)
 * (@danielbachhuber)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-doesnt-work/#post-3207420)
 * > Is it ok to downgrade to the 2x branch?
 * Not sure, haven’t tested.
 * > And term 391 has the values:
   > name: martaharnecker
   >  slug: martaharnecker-2
 * If you update this term to have a slug of ‘cap-martaharnecker’, the problem should
   magically fix itself. This problem existed in pre-3.0 too, but in 3.0 we started
   prefixing slugs with ‘cap-‘ if they don’t already exist.
 *  [Jamil Jonna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonna/)
 * (@jonna)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-doesnt-work/#post-3207421)
 * Thank you: that did work.
 * But I feel like I should remind you that everything worked just fine before the
   update. Perhaps you should write a script to help folks that are having problems
   like this as I’m sure there are more? Or maybe you can help me “magically” change
   the 400 or so terms that need to be changed?
 *  [Jamil Jonna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonna/)
 * (@jonna)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-doesnt-work/#post-3207422)
 * I’m not sure you have any idea what an amazing clusterfuck this has created. 
   In my DB, there are now hundreds of duplicate “cap-%” (%=wildcard) terms and 
   because of their existence, I cannot change all of the incorrect “%-2” terms 
   to “cap-%” since they MySQL correctly identifies them as duplicates. Did you 
   really not write a script to transform these terms when you made this change?
   This seems like pretty bad programming.
 * In any case, what would you suggest I do? Delete all the current “cap-%” terms
   and so that I can change the current “%-2” terms? What a mess.
 * Further, this now appears to have created a disconnection with the authors database,
   such that the author posts don’t register correctly. This is really quite unfortunate.
 *  [Jamil Jonna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonna/)
 * (@jonna)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-doesnt-work/#post-3207423)
 * So, I went through the tedious process of fixing all of these problems and now
   I have noticed that coauthors seems to disregard the sorting behavior of coauthors.
   I don’t remember this being the case before. Is there anyway to fix this? It 
   is a major problem for sites that have books, as ours does. Feel free to move
   this to a new topic.
 * Edit: Actually, I know this is not how it used to work. Because this post is 
   sorting correctly: [http://monthlyreview.org/2012/09/01/medicine-and-empire](http://monthlyreview.org/2012/09/01/medicine-and-empire).
   However, this is version 3.0—I have not updated yet. So, either the “magic” fix
   I just made screwed something up, or the behavior is different. I would love 
   to know the answer here.
 * Moving the part of the discussion about sorting here: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/coauthor-sort-order-lost-in-31-or-32](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/coauthor-sort-order-lost-in-31-or-32)
 *  [Jamil Jonna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonna/)
 * (@jonna)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-doesnt-work/#post-3207424)
 * If anyone needs help fixing their terms, the method I used was to find all of
   the duplicate term entries created by CAP, delete them, and then change the slug
   to “cap-%” (%=wildcard). You can do this pretty easily by exporting your terms
   table and creating a MATCH column in Excel. The you have to create a bunch of
   MySQL commands to delete the extra terms, and the update the other terms.

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