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OK! Understood! It will be added to the next release (4.3.3) of the plugin.

Thanks for letting us know about this!

I’m closing the ticket now. If version 4.3.3 doesn’t fix this, please feel free to re-open it so we can look into it.

Cheers!

Hi @m7mad,

Regarding No.1 issue reported by @tripledm, the “Biographical Info” field is relocated within the “Molongui Authorship” section and relabeled as “Full Bio”. Here you have a screenshot of how that field looks like with the plugin enabled.

Now, about removing the “Author Box Settings” from the edit-user screen, you have two options: 1) If you don’t use the Author Box feature, you can disable it altogether. That should remove that section from that page. Or 2) add this custom CSS rule to the admin area of your site:

#molongui-user-fields #molongui-box-settings {display:none;}

Check out this article or this other one to know how to add that custom CSS rule to your admin area.

And about customizing the text of the headline displayed above the author box, yes, you can change it to your likings. Just go to Appearance > Customize > Molongui Author Box > Headline and replace the content in the “Text” field with the one of your choice. Here you have a screenshot of how that settings panel looks like.

Hi @richards1052,

1) Co-author bio not showing. Thanks for your detailed feedback. It is like the select dropdown you use to pick up the authors for a post is not refreshing its options after you add the guest author. So you are actually picking the user profile for that author. That’s why the post is deleted upon user removal (you can re-assign it to another user while deleting the user).

We have checked and we do see both profiles for an author that has both, user and guest. Check this screenshot. Our author is named “coauthor” and you see we have the “User” and the “Guest” profiles.

Are you using the same browser tab or different ones opened simultaneously? If you do use different tabs, you need to refresh the one you use to edit the post after adding the guest author to your site, so the select dropdown can refresh its options.

Or maybe you have a caching plugin? If you do, could you please disable object cache in the backend and try again? Or completely clear the cache after having added the guest author and before opening the edit-post screen.

And how do you add your guest author, using the “Quick Add new guest” option from the edit-post screen or through the “Add new” option you have on the page listing all guest authors?

2) Where to edit your user bio. You should be able to edit it from your edit-profile screen. There you should have a field labeled “Full bio” (it looks something like this). That field takes the value stored in the default “Description” WP field. Any change you make to it will be stored into the default WP field, so if you deactivate the plugin, changes will be kept. But you asking makes me think you don’t see that field or it has a different content than the one displayed in your frontend. Is that so?

If you don’t have that field, could you please make sure you have the setting labeled “Enhance user profile adding extra fields like short bio, phone, company, social links and others” turned on? If you don’t, please switch it on.

If you have that setting enabled, could you please share a screenshot of the whole edit-profile page? And the link to a post showing your author box with that bio you cannot edit?

Please let us know so we can be of better help.

Hi @richards1052,

You mentioned you have that author defined as both, user and guest. That is OK. But, when editing the post, are you sure you picked the “guest” profile from the dropdown instead of “user” one?

From what I can see in the page you linked, I’d say you picked an author that, somehow, you later removed. Does that make any sense? Pleas go edit that post and remove the first author on the list. Then pick the correct one and drag&drop it to the first position. Save the post. Is the issue gone now?

Hi @manonatelier,

Could you please confirm you are using the latest version of both plugins, free and Pro? What about WP, which version are you running?

If you are running latest version, please go to: Molongui > Support and scroll down the page. There you will see a button labeled “Send Report”. Please click on it so we can get some insights about your installation and configuration. We will try to reproduce the issue on our testing server.

Hi @frogstonemedia,

Thanks so much for reporting this! We will add a fix in the next plugin update.

Happy you figured it out, @kojimo!

Hi @sylvsteph,

Thanks for reporting the issue! We have just released an new update (4.3.1) with the fix. It had nothing to do with WP 5.7 but PHP 8. So I assume you must be running that version of PHP.

You should be able to have the plugin active without getting any error when browsing the Updates or Plugins page (from your Dashboard). So you should be able to get the update automatically —you might need to force WP check for updates (Dashboard > Updates > Check again). Or you can manually update the plugin. You could also remove it (version 4.3.0) and reinstall it (version 4.3.1).

Either way, please remember to clear any cache after updating.

I’m closing the ticket because I think the fix will work for you. If it doesn’t, please feel free to reopen it. And we will assist.

Thanks again!