akwhitacre

Ah-ha, figured it out. Around line 114 in feed.php (in the wp-includes folder), change…

function get_the_title_rss() {
	$title = get_the_title();
	$title = apply_filters('the_title_rss', $title);
	return $title;
}

to…

function get_the_title_rss() {
	$author = get_the_author();
	$author = apply_filters('the_author_rss', $author);
	$title = get_the_title();
	$title = apply_filters('the_title_rss', $title);
	return $author . " // " . $title;
}

Yep, and did so again just now. But I still get the same issue–for example, I just clicked to activate a new plugin and was bounced to the front page (and it goes without saying, the plugin didn’t activate).

Hi, Adiant. I had that thought as well and so ran a McAfee scan last night. But alas, zero bad files on my system.

I’ll take that as good news, but still no hints as to where the problem lies.

And just a quick addition, the Multiple Authors plugin is capable of doing what I describe–with a combination of custom fields and commenting out some lines of code.

But it still seems like there should be a more straightforward way.

Thanks for the link, Samsarin. That worked like a charm. It took some retooling with the way I had written my loop, but it did just want I wanted.