Molongui

Hi @sashman13,

Please, try with this:

add_filter( 'molongui_authorship_dont_override_get_user_by', '__return_true' );
$user_url = get_the_author_meta( 'user_url', 12 );
remove_filter( 'molongui_authorship_dont_override_get_user_by', '__return_true' );

As long as you provide the second optional parameter ($user_id) to the get_the_author_meta function, this works. Please, let us know if it does for you.

It’s been a month since we’ve heard from you, so we wanted to reach out and let you know we are going to close this ticket now.

Please feel welcome to reopen it or open a new one if you need any further assistance.

Hi @matthieulllrc,

we are not able to reproduce the issue about posts count (issue #1). Now we think that it might be related with the issue #2 you reported. Could that 24 count be the sum of posts and pages authored by that user? Or… you didn’t mention it specifically, but is yours a multi-language site? Might that 24 come from the sum of posts in several languages from that author?

You can update that count on a per user basis by assigning/removing an author to/from a post. On save, involved authors get their counters updated. Also, deactivating and re-activating the plugin should update all the counters for those post types where plugin functionality is enabled on – that is posts and pages with Molongui Authorship Free.

Hi @divano,

by “author’s link on posts” do you mean the byline (the post author name displayed, usually, under post’s title? Could you please provide a URL I can check so we can assist?

Thanks for confirming @cgscomputers! And thanks again for reporting!

Hi @xxxlesy,

thanks for your request! We didn’t answer you back but it didn’t mean we ignored you at all. As per your request, we have added a handy filter you can now use to provide those (custom) user roles you want to consider to retrieve users than can be assigned as post authors.

Filter name is authorship/user/roles and by default it takes an array like array( 'administrator', 'editor', 'author', 'contributor' ). So now you can provide any custom array of your choice with the add_filter function from your child theme. No worries about plugin updates overwriting your edits 🙂

The filter is available since version 4.0.10.

For convenience, Pro version offers this as a settings option. So Pro users can easily select which (custom) user roles the plugin must take into account from their Dashboard.

Thanks for helping us improving the plugin!

Hi @matthieulllrc,

we’ve just released the mentioned update. That should fix the issue you reported. Please let us know if it doesn’t so we can give it a second look. Thanks!

Hi @matthieulllrc,

We have identified the issue and fixed it. We will release an update later today.

I can confirm this bug was introduced in version 4.0.9