Title: Activating Plugin Error
Last modified: October 9, 2022

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# Activating Plugin Error

 *  Resolved [fouldsy99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fouldsy99/)
 * (@fouldsy99)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-plugin-error-3/)
 * When I activate this plugin, it remove the authors name and only displays category

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 *  Plugin Author [Molongui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/molongui/)
 * (@molongui)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-plugin-error-3/#post-16085434)
 * Hi [@fouldsy99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fouldsy99/),
 * Do you mean the author name is removed from your post bylines in your frontend(
   public site), right? Does it happen for all the authors? Do they have any custom
   user role other than WP’s default Administrator, Editor, Author or Contributor?
 * And if you are using Molongui Authorship Pro add-on, have you disabled author
   pages? If you did, which theme are you using?
 *  Thread Starter [fouldsy99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fouldsy99/)
 * (@fouldsy99)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-plugin-error-3/#post-16086071)
 * It happens for all non-admins, writers role is a copy of Contributor but named
   something else, these are having their names removed when activated
 * I was looking into the pro feature, but not yet purchased it as have problems
   with free version
 *  Plugin Author [Molongui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/molongui/)
 * (@molongui)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-plugin-error-3/#post-16086618)
 * That must be it then: Custom user roles are only supported with the Pro version
   of the plugin.
 * To make sure, you can temporary switch the post’s author to a user having a default
   WP role (Administrator, Editor, Author or Contributor) and check if the author
   name is displayed in the post’s byline. If it is, the issue is because your users
   have a custom user role (Writer).

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 * Last reply from: [Molongui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/molongui/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-plugin-error-3/#post-16086618)
 * Status: resolved