3.0 Doesn't Work

But I feel like I should remind you that everything worked just fine before the update.

I suspect it did because Co-Authors Plus used to do the lookup against the name column, in which case the collisions with the tag terms didn’t matter.

Perhaps you should write a script to help folks that are having problems like this as I’m sure there are more?

Yours is a pretty unique case. Without the tag collision scenario, the plugin handles backwards compatibility with terms without the prefix.

There was, in fact, a script packaged with the plugin that we used on WordPress.com VIP to migrate the author terms. If you have wp-cli configured, you can use:

wp co-authors-plus migrate-author-terms

Hi Daniel,

I followed you to this thread from “Duplicates on Authors page” which is the issue I’m having too.

Up above you suggested two solutions:

1. Edit the user_nicename for any users missing their posts so that their user_nicename matches their user_login
2. Edit the slug associated with the user’s term so that it matches their user_nicename

I can get #1 to work but not #2 which is what’s i’d prefer in order to keep the author page urls ‘nice’.

I’m using the Edit Author Slug plug in and with an author with (for example):
username: jsmith
first name: John
Last Name: Smith
nickname: John Smith
Display: John Smith
and the author slug edited to: john-smith

Shouldn’t it work?

Thanks!

@glark you’ll also need to dive into your database and edit the slug associated with the author’s term. There’s a custom taxonomy behind the scenes handling the relationship between posts and bylines.

Ok, thanks, I tried to follow the above conversation but I’m unclear what I need to change to what.

Or alternatively, can I nuke CAP’s settings/DB and start over? I have fewer than 10 authors right now but 100s of stories.

If all of the authors are appropriately associated with posts when the plugin is deactivated, you should be fine deleting all ‘author’ terms and term relationships. New terms will be regenerated the first time you assign the author to the post.

So here’s my wp_term_taxonomy. I have 10 authors on the site and 20 entries here. The blurred out bits on the last 10 entries are author info.

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/ca8fd800-d208-49de-9b17-465187ee0e0d/7d74381775e1fb9a303b3cf552f7b293

Can I ask what I’m to nuke here? I’d guess either the first 10 or the second ten but I’m not sure.

Then do I find the same term_taxonomy_id in wp_term_taxonomy and nuke those entries?

Please pretend I’m 5 years old when you explain it. ??

Followup! I re-entered the authors in each post and and that seemed to have corrected the issue. I have correct author counts, no weird duplicates in the author archive and I’m using the custom author slugs too. Thanks for a great plugin Daniel.

Glad to hear ??