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Hi @dilinger,

Thanks for confirming. And sure, no problem, take your time. We will keep this ticket open.

Hi @dilinger,

thanks for checking all that! It is actually correct to now have ‘user-122’ in the ‘post_author’ field for that last added post. Did you actually publish that post and check what the byline displayed? Was it wrong? What did it display, user-122 name or guest-97710’s?

Hi @zerodotnine,

The page you linked is displaying 4 authors: Test Author 3, Test Author 2, Test Author 1 and Test Panelist. I see all of them are guest authors so I don’t really understand what’s the issue. Maybe you have more guest authors that are not being displayed? Or maybe you want users to be displayed too?

Here you have the doc for the shortcode responsible to display that list. You might want to take a look at the “type”, “include_guests”, “with_posts”, “post_type” and “count” attributes.

If that doesn’t help, could you please try to provide a little more detail so I can understand what the issue is?

Just to let everyone reading this know, the issue reported on this ticket has been fixed in version 4.2.3.

Thanks so much for reporting @cgscomputers!

Hi @alexgff,

thanks so much for that! A fix will be included in the next update.

Hi @cgscomputers,

what do you mean by “main archive page”? Is it the posts/blog page? Could you please provide the link to it?

Hi @alexgff,

thanks for reporting this! We have already addressed it and a fix will be included in the next update (4.2.1). Meanwhile, if you go to the settings page and “Save changes”, it should stop being reported into your log.

Hi @alexgff,

OK, following your request, we have added two new filters to the get_posts function. They will be available since version 4.2.0, which is due to be released in a few days.

New filters are:

1) One at the beginning of the function, so you have the option to short-circuit it:

/**
  * FILTER HOOK
  *
  * Allows third-party to filter returned posts list before it is generated.
  *
  * Passing a non-null value will effectively short-circuit the generation, returning that value instead.
  *
  * @param   array         $posts         The posts list. Default null.
  * @param   int           $this->id      Author ID.
  * @param   string        $this->type    Author type. Can be either 'user' or 'guest'.
  * @param   object        $this->author  The author's object.
  * @param   array         $parsed_args   Array of parsed query arguments.
  * @param   string|array  $args          Array or string of function arguments. Default null.
  *
  * @since   4.2.0
  * @version 4.2.0
  */
  $posts = apply_filters( 'authorship/author/pre_get_posts', null, $this->id, $this->type, $this->author, $parsed_args, $args );
  if ( null !== $posts ) return $posts;

2) Another at the end of the function, filtering returned value:

/**
  * FILTER HOOK
  *
  * Allows third-party to filter returned posts.
  *
  * @param   array   $posts         Array of retrieved author posts.
  * @param   int     $this->id      Author ID.
  * @param   string  $this->type    Author type. Can be either 'user' or 'guest'.
  * @param   object  $this->author  The author's object.
  * @param   array   $parsed_args   Array of parsed query arguments.
  *
  * @since   4.2.0
  * @version 4.2.0
  */
  $posts = apply_filters( 'authorship/author/posts', $posts, $this->id, $this->type, $this->author, $parsed_args );

Please note that the get_posts function has been refactored, so you should take a look at it again.

We hope this is just what you needed. If it wasn’t, please feel free to re-open this ticket and let us know.