Title: Missing authors
Last modified: January 7, 2019

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# Missing authors

 *  [SWolf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/astroruss/)
 * (@astroruss)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-authors/)
 * If I sort by the authors first name or default all is good.
    If I sort by authors
   last name a couple of authors to go missing.
 * I have cleared the cache and checked in a couple of diff browsers.
    Still missing.

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 *  [andrewmperryman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewmperryman/)
 * (@andrewmperryman)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-authors/#post-11111727)
 * Hello [@astroruss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/astroruss/),
 * Just as seeds of thought… Amazon sometimes has crap data that been entered in
   to their Db, this gets pulled back and in particular this happens with the authors
   last name.
 * For example whoever edits or updates Amazon, likes to put the word Author in 
   the the Author field when they shouldn’t, this plays havoc with the ordering 
   filters.
    i.e… Author: Dan Brown (author)
 * or
 * Author: James Patterson and (author) Jo Nesbo
 * These will end up alphabetically at the beginning because of the letter “A” in
   author.
 * So you can see sometimes you may have to sanitize the crap data to allow the 
   filters to separate the names out and order the books entries correctly.
 * Take a look at the books that change and then look at and edit the author field
   entries to check if there are any oddities.
 * Jake has to do a lot of work to separate out the first an last names as Amazon
   does not provide a separate Db table for surnames.
 * So in short the old expression still stands crap data in crap data out.
 * Some editorial administration by human eye is needed I am afraid, however Jakes
   filters do a great job considering.
 * Andrew
 *  Thread Starter [SWolf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/astroruss/)
 * (@astroruss)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-authors/#post-11112746)
 * Nice try,
    But all of the missing books have just the author name IE Steven Bird.
   and it’s not a matter of being out of order alphabetically. The books are MISSING.
 *  [andrewmperryman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewmperryman/)
 * (@andrewmperryman)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-authors/#post-11112845)
 * Hello @astroruss,
 * We have 3300 books listed and never had this problem, I don’t know how many you
   have listed, we are on ver 5.8.4 so if you are on the latest 6 plus then there
   maybe white space issues that mean certain results don’t get get included is 
   the Db return result.
 * However, I was just offering my experience as stated previously a SEED OF THOUGHT.
 * Please appreciate that the wordpress members are here to help support you and
   not debate with you, PLEASE REMEMBER THAT.
 * Andrew

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