when I select an author to add to a post (new user/author), it seems like it add a guest author and assigns the post them that instead of the already existing author.
Any way to stop that. I have some users that have multiple guest authors now each with some posts attached
Also, can disabling Guest Authors at this point do any harm?
thanks
This topic was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by roverlap.
Yes, I have every role set here so Authors and User are synched. Otherwise new users wouldn’t show up in the dropdown if I remember correctly. I understood it creates an author if a new user is created when you set a role there. The guest users are created when choosing an author on a page/post/etc
I just deactivated every Plugin I could (still have acf and polylang because my WP doesn’t work without them) and it still creates a guest user when I assign an author to a page as a second author.
When I add the author and guest author at the same time to a page, it creates a second guest author. Doesn’t seem to happen again when I add all 3 authors (or 2 again like before) after that. That’s also the most I can see on the PROD instance. 1 User, 2 Guest Authors
Do you think acf or polylang could interfere with Authors?
I’m testing changes locally. Disabling Polylang just literally breaks WordPress the way it’s used here so I can’t even see pages. You could be right though. Authors shows up as translatable Taxonomy inside Polylang. Compared to all my own Taxonomies and CPTs though, I can’t uncheck that. And I didn’t activate it. The checkbox is disabled
Polylang doesn’t activate CPTs or Taxonomies on its own, I always had to do that manually. I’ve also never seen a disabled checkbox on that settings page.
@roverlap Yes, you are correct. We stored our Author as a taxonomy. You could confirm this with Polylang support to check whether or not you could disable it on the Polylang setting.
Would be nice to be able to disable translating authors, especially since it’s not actually getting translated but not super necessary for me as long as you can fetch all posts of an author the related guest authors with a meta query
