Guest Author Page

[MikeNGarrett]

/author/[author_slug] is no longer working for guest authors. The template is returning a 404.

[matthewpizza]

It looks like the change in 2ce2ce8 is causing the 404.

WordPress/Co-Authors sees the co-author as having 0 posts and is 404ing. The fix we’ve found is to trigger an update for the offending co-author. Either updating in the admin or running update_author_term_post_count() from the WP-CLI update-author-terms.

Also good to take a look at the coauthors_count_published_post_types filter if you are using custom post types.

cc @MikeNGarrett @danielbachhuber

[maxfenton]

Running into the same problem. Since updating the plugin, /author/[author_slug] does not work for guest authors.

Edit: two links that might save some searching for someone down the road:

1. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authors-names-dont-show-up-in-various-places-taxonomy-30
2. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/here-is-sample-code-to-get-co-author-working-on-author-page
3. https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4227978

[maxfenton]

I haven't been able to test @matthewspencer's fix, so I basically reverted 2ce2ce8 by making a custom function in my theme functions.php with a modified version of the older fix_author_page

remove_filter( 'posts_selection', array( $coauthors_plus, 'fix_author_page' ) );
remove_action( 'the_post', array( $coauthors_plus, 'fix_author_page' ) );
add_filter( 'posts_selection', 'mf_fix_author_page' ); 
add_action( 'the_post', 'mf_fix_author_page' );
function mf_fix_author_page() { /* ... */ }

[rebeccahum]

@MikeNGarrett Are you still experiencing this issue? Have you tried @matthewspencer's fix? That wp cli command should update the guest author's posts with the correct amount.

[MikeNGarrett]

This was so long ago that I'm not sure the context of the original issue. I know we found a way to work around the issue way back then, but I'm not sure if the original issue is fixed.

[jqueryalmeida]

Solution:
function co_author_archive($query) { if ($query->is_author) $query->set( 'post_type', array('custom_post', 'post') ); remove_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'co_author_archive' ); } add_action('pre_get_posts', 'co_author_archive');

[rebeccahum]

Hi @jqueryalmeida, thanks so much for your contribution. Would you be able to submit a PR for this?

[trepmal]

I think this is resolved in #440.