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Bylines are correct but articles don't show on author page

Open jxxe opened this issue 5 years ago • 5 comments

I had hundreds of articles published with a single author before Co-Authors Plus was installed, and now that it's been installed for a while, I've noticed something. If you look at the search results for an author (link) it shows all of their posts. This is because I use a plugin that allows the search to index custom fields. If you look at the author's page (link) it doesn't show all of the articles.

I thought that issue #508 sounded similar, so I followed these instructions, but they didn't work. I ran the WP-CLI command wp co-authors-plus create-terms-for-posts in my WordPress directory with SSH. Nothing happened for a few seconds, then it spit out hundreds of messages like this:

1343/1344) Skipping - Post #16080 '15,000 People Attend Student-Led March for George Floyd' already has these terms:estellazhou, naomibirenbaum

The post it mentions was created after I installed Co-Authors Plus and is correctly displayed on the pages of both authors. That's the case with all of them. I'm using my host's online SSH terminal, so I can't see all of the history, but all of the messages said that the post was skipped, and nothing changed on my website.

How can I fix this?

Edit: Running wp co-authors-plus list-posts-without-terms doesn't return anything.

jxxe avatar Jun 14 '20 00:06 jxxe

Is the guest author linked to a user account? For the posts that are missing from the author page, which is the term from the author taxonomy assigned to it?

rebeccahum avatar Aug 10 '20 12:08 rebeccahum

There are no guest authors. They are all user accounts.

jxxe avatar Aug 10 '20 15:08 jxxe

@jxxe: Do you see the same problem when deactivating all other plugins and using a default WordPress stheme, such as the Twenty Twenty-one theme? I'm asking as I'm unable to reproduce this problem on my end when using a default theme and the Co-Authors-Plus plugin only.

nielslange avatar Apr 02 '21 02:04 nielslange

@jxxe: Do you see the same problem when deactivating all other plugins and using a default WordPress stheme, such as the Twenty Twenty-one theme? I'm asking as I'm unable to reproduce this problem on my end when using a default theme and the Co-Authors-Plus plugin only.

I'll try to test it soon and get back to you. I've since solved the problem by completely ignoring it.

jxxe avatar Apr 02 '21 02:04 jxxe

Thanks for your quick feedback and I'm looking forward to receiving your test results. 😀

nielslange avatar Apr 02 '21 03:04 nielslange