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Thanks for that @beardev. We are looking into it. We will get back to you as soon as possible.
Patchstack shows latest version is also vulnerable because they haven’t checked the fix it includes yet. Once they do (it is not an automatic process, but a human researcher the one who needs to check the code again), they will update their report and the warning will go away.
Obviously, and until they do, they will mark all versions from 4.6.18 on as vulnerable (because they haven’t checked yet the latest code and last notice they have is that the code they checked had that vulnerability).
By the way, they report the vulnerability as exploitable by unauthenticated users, which is wrong. Only users with access to the Dashboard and Editor privileges (or higher) and hacking skills could exploit it.
Hi @nerdlogger,
The report you link is actually for versions <= 4.6.18. I know the title shows 4.6.19, but it is because it is a dynamic field, so it connects to WP plugin repo and gets the latest version available for the plugin. If you inspect the URL you shared, you will see the report is for version 4.6.18 (and lower)
We notified Patchstack as soon as we released the update with the fix. We haven’t heard back from them yet, but surely we will as soon as they check the fix. And sure they will update their report.
Thanks for caring!
Those admin notices are only shown after plugin activation. The plugin runs two background tasks in order to update (if necessary) post and authorship counters. If you have WP Cron disabled or blocked in some way, the jobs won’t run and counters won’t be updated.
If those notices keep displaying even when the job is done, you may have a cache plugin. Try to flush admin cache. Does this make those notices to go away?
However, when adding a new post (or editing an existing one), metadata is set while saving the post. No cron job is run then. So post counters should be updated, even if they are not displaying a correct number. Let’s say John Doe’s post count is 8. But our counter display 3. If you add John to a new post, our counter should display 4. The count is not correct, but it’s been updated with last change. Is it working like this for you?
I mean, updating all post counters so they reflect the actual post count for each author is done as a background task. By default it is run on plugin activation. And you can also run it manually from: Authors > Tools > Authorship. But incrementing/decrementing post counters when editing a post, is done automatically on post save.
Please let us know so we can assist.
Hi @beardev,
Thanks for reaching out! Let’s try to get this sorted out. Could you please let us know:
- Does that happen only when listing pages? Listing regular posts loads fine?
- Do you have plugin features enabled only for pages or also for posts?
- How many items does that screen show? 20 is WP default
- Has it always loaded so slow? If it hasn’t, could you tell whether this happen after any particular event, like after a plugin install or update?
Please let us know so we can assist you on this.
Hi @cgscomputers,
We have just released an update (4.6.19) with a fix for this.
Thanks for reporting!
Hi @pidev,
Sorry about the late reply!
Using a comma in the author name will cause conflict if the separator (between author names) is also a comma. It is a limitation of how things are implemented right now. Anyway, we will check whether there is a way to go around it.
Since version 4.6.18, you can remove the spaces automatically added around delimiters (that’s it, items between author names) by adding this line of code to your functions.php file (or wherever you think more appropriate):
add_filter( 'authorship/byline_separator_autospace', '__return_false' );Hi @lizmcruz,
We are handling this through a support ticket you opened with us, so we are closing this one here. If useful for other users, we will post any relevant fix here.
Hi @sayantansdas,
You never provided the screenshot you mentioned, so I assume you mean the cron job that updates either post counters or post authorship. As you very well point out, those are run on plugin activation. But afterwards they are only run on demand (from the Authors > Tools page).
Once data is set, it is updated every time a post is edited. Could you please provide some more detail on when your data is not updated? Maybe when changing authorship?
Please let us know so we can assist.
It’s been over 3 weeks since we last hear about you. Hopefully last suggestion fixed your issues. We are closing this ticket now. But feel free to re-open it if you need further assistance on this.
Best,
The Molongui Support Team
Hmmm… could you please go to: Authors > Settings > Advanced and find the Performance pane. There, disable the option labeled as Load vendor assets from remote CDN and Save Settings. And if you have any cache, flush it. Does that make any difference? Is the issue gone?
Did you check your browser’s console? Any javascript error there? Even if everything else is working fine, you could have a javascript error preventing our code to run.
Yes, it is working on our testing server. Which plugins have all the sites you have tried our plugin on have in common?
On any of the sites you have tested, would you be able to disable all the plugins but ours and check if the issue persists?
Please let us know.
Hi @boodyahmed2001k,
Have you tried a different browser on your mobile phone or a different device? Working on desktop but not on mobile makes me thing that your current browser might be blocking javascript (although that would affect other WP Dashboard functions too…).
Please let us know.
Yes, guest author pages are only available with the Pro version of the plugin. With the Pro version you have available a handy shortcode ([molongui_byline]) to display the author byline, so you could use it in the template you use for your Loop Grid.
Glad to know you like our plugin so much!
Thanks for that. We have tried to reproduce the issue, but we are not able to. On a testing server running latest version of WP, Elementor, Elementor Pro and Hello theme, we have added a basic template displaying: post featured image, post title and post info (including post author name, date and comments). Then, we have edited a page with the Elementor editor adding a Loop Grid widget, using the previous created template. Author names are displaying OK for multi-authored posts and each author name is linking to their author page.
We have tried to add the Author Box widget (default settings) to the template and it is also displaying multiple authors names with links on co-authored posts.
So not really sure how we can reproduce the issue on our end. Are we missing something?
Could you please make sure you have the “Make author name link to author page” setting enabled? You can find this setting on: Authors > Settings > Co-authors > Post Byline. If it was disabled, please enable it and check if the issue persists.
Please let us know.