Title: Authors suddenly missing from posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Authors suddenly missing from posts

 *  [kevinsturf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinsturf/)
 * (@kevinsturf)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authors-suddenly-missing-from-posts/)
 * Hello, I’m hoping someone can shed some light on this issue I’m having.
    Suddenly,
   most of my authors for my blog are missing from the posts they made. When checking“
   all posts”, under the Authors column, the names would usually show there, but
   now they’re missing. I have to manually go in the post and re-add the author.
   One of my authors who made about 30+ posts, only has his name on 3 posts but 
   it was working fine before. I’m completely lost on what could cause this.
 * See screenshot for what I mean: [http://cl.ly/M3Qg](http://cl.ly/M3Qg)
 * I’m not sure if it’s a plugin issue because I turned off all plugins and still
   the same issue. Although I am using the “Co-Authors Plus” plugin which I tested
   on another WP install and no issues with that one.
 * Thanks in advance for assisting to help 🙂
 * -Kevin

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authors-suddenly-missing-from-posts/#post-3346769)
 * Are you using the most recent version of the plug-in? Looks like it was updated
   three days ago.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/co-authors-plus/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/co-authors-plus/)
 *  Thread Starter [kevinsturf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinsturf/)
 * (@kevinsturf)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authors-suddenly-missing-from-posts/#post-3346773)
 * Yes, I had updated to latest version of that. I’m not sure but it seemed like
   WordPress just took all the authors from the posts out of the database. I’m manually
   re-adding posts for a simple fix for now but I can’t have this happening as the
   blog constantly has new posts from different authors.
 *  [Alperian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alperian/)
 * (@alperian)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authors-suddenly-missing-from-posts/#post-3346998)
 * I have the same issue except that no authors are showing. When I look at the 
   code (firebug) for the table entry it contains:
 *     ```
       <td class="author column-author">
       <a href="edit.php?post_type=post&author=1"></a>
       </td>
       ```
   
 * Obviously this is not visible. Does this help shed any light on the problem i
   might have?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authors-suddenly-missing-from-posts/#post-3346999)
 * **[@alperian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alperian/)**: As per the [Forum Welcome](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post),
   please [post your own topic](http://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform).
   Posting in an existing topic prevents us from being able to track issues by topic.
   Added to which, your problem – despite any similarity in symptoms – is likely
   to be completely different.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authors-suddenly-missing-from-posts/#post-3346999)
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