Authors Not Saved
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I have a client with a legacy news site where they’ve assigned multiple authors by creating synthetic single authors. That is, they’ve created an author named things like “Bob and Billy” and created an email for that person. They’d like to go back and update posts, adding Bob as one author and Billy as another (both Bob and Billy would be normal WP user accounts with Author or better roles).
However, when testing this, I added the individual Bob and Billy users as authors and removed the synthetic Bob and Billy user. I click Update and… everything reverts. The synthetic user is back as the sole author and the two individual authors are not listed at all. Note that this is all on the backend.
This is with a fully custom theme – are there specific things that need to be done in a theme to get this to save? I see there are some things to do in order to get the authors displayed on the front end but I’m concerned that the information isn’t even saving.
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It’s the Classic Editor plugin (v 1.6.2). Your plugin actually saves the author fine (you can see the updated authors in the admin post listing) but when hitting Update and the admin screen refreshes, the newly added author(s) don’t show in the admin screen. They do if Classic Editor is disabled.
Thanks.
I don’t know what to tell you. I created a new blank site, two authors. Classic Editor.
First issue: I create a post and assigned an author. This saved fine. Trying to assign a second author, the search told me that there were no results when i typed in the author name. This happens with and without the Classic editor plugin active.
Second issue: As above. This test site shows the problem even with the class editor off. It’s possible this is a visual bug due to an extension in Safari or something. If I back out of the post and then, in the admin listing, click it to edit it again, the name shows. But even if I refresh, it does not show on the admin screen right after adding the second author.
This isn’t a 100% showstopper for my use case but it does have the potential to confuse editors and make them less confident in the process.
PS: If you want access to this staging site, let me know.
Hello, not sure this is relevant to above or not..
Can’t see the author comments in the post edit area of woocommerce product pages.
Cannot seem to update the comments in the Reviews dedicated page, from a recent update. Not all the relevant reviews update, some do, some don’t. We need to change the author I.Ds of some customer names for their privacy. Cannot do it in one go, takes 2 or 3 times to edit and save, it does not reflect back onto the product listing page in the reviews tab.
Any suggestions guys?
Thanks
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