[S.G.]

<p data-pm-slice=”1 1 []”>Hi everyone,</p>
<p data-pm-slice=”1 1 []”>This is a theme-specific issue, but the bug does not appear on our Commons sites.

In Customizr and Customizr Pro sites, these two plugins allow us to add guest authors to posts without them being members of the site, but then on the front end, it attributes the post to a random OL user.</p>
Here is one case, in which the post lists a non-site OL member, a student, as the author on the front end, but Karl Williams (guest author we created) on the back-end (see two OL screenshots). And here is the student that it randomly chose: https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/members/shanonbrianna/

Each time I try to add Karl, it seems to generate a different OL user on the front end.

I was able to replicate this on other sites. Here is one that shows an OL user named Marla instead of a guest author we created: https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/bmccreads/?p=260&preview=true

The functionality of the two plugins does work perfectly in OL sites in 2012. We have not tested other themes.

The reason we are posting here is that these plugins do work perfectly on Commons sites in Customizr (see one Commons screenshot, in which I successfully published a post with a non-site member as a guest author).

Our developer adds:
“When you create the new author it is somehow given an ID. It’s not clear how the ID number is assigned but once it is, if it matches an existing ID of a OpenLab member then that person is shown as the author.

“Knowing that WordPress has many ways of doing things it may be that some themes pull the authors in one way that takes the ID number and finds a matching OpenLab member and other themes pull the author name a different way using the data from the Co-Authors+ plugin.”

We thought this might be a question for Boone, as creator of the Filters plugin?

Thanks!

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[Ray]

Hi Syelle,

This is not a problem with CBOX. It’s a problem with the Co-Authors Plus plugin and the Customizr theme. We have some specialized fixes on the Commons as outlined here.

It sounds like the problems in that ticket are the same as the ones you outlined. I can share those fixes with you in a code snippet if your developer is able to apply them in the /wp-content/mu-plugins/ directory.

[S.G.]

Thanks, Ray–we’ve applied the fixes on our dev site, with success so far. Much appreciated.

[Ray]

Hi Syelle,

It looks like I didn’t share the code snippet in my previous post. If you still need it, let me know. Otherwise, glad to hear things are working for you.

[S.G.]

We got the snippets from the github link in the redmine ticket you linked.

[Ray]

Ahh, I did not know you had access to the Commons Github repository. I guess you do! 🙂

To be sure you have the right snippet, here’s the code:
https://pastebin.com/raw/CEpSch4z

You can save it to a file like /wp-content/mu-plugins/co-authors-plus.php.

[S.G.]

Thanks, Ray! Chris is our developer, so he has the access. 🙂

[S.G.]

@r-a-y, just an update that we finally got this working–many thanks.

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