Coauthors Plus and WordPress Popular Posts

If your site runs Coauthors Plus to manage posts with multiple authors, you’ll notice that WPP does not know that and will output just the first author of a post with multiple authors.

I added this code to version 2.3.2 in wordpress_popular_posts.php starting on line 1070.

The original code here is:

if ( $instance['stats_tag']['author'] ) {
	$display_name = get_the_author_meta('display_name', $p->uid);
	$stats .= ($stats == "") ? "<span class=\"wpp-author\">" . __('by', 'wordpress-popular-posts')." {$display_name}</span>" : " | <span class=\"wpp-author\">" . __('by', 'wordpress-popular-posts') ." {$display_name}</span>";
}

The hack to include your Coauthors Plus authors:

/* hack to add co-authors */

if ( $instance['stats_tag']['author'] ) {

	$count = 1;

	if ( function_exists( 'get_coauthors' ) ) {
		$co_authors = get_coauthors($p->id);
		$total_authors = count($co_authors);
		$author_names = '';
		foreach ( $co_authors as $key => $co_author ) {
			if ($count <= 1) { $author_names .= $co_author->display_name;}
			else if ($count == $total_authors && $total_authors > 2) { $author_names .= ', and ' . $co_author->display_name; }
			else if ($count == $total_authors && $total_authors = 2) { $author_names .= ' and ' . $co_author->display_name; }
			else { $author_names .= ', ' . $co_author->display_name; }
			$count++;
		}
		$display_name = $author_names;
	} else {
		$display_name = get_the_author_meta('display_name', $p->uid);
	}
	/* $display_name = get_the_author_meta('display_name', $p->uid); */
	$stats .= ($stats == "") ? "<span class=\"wpp-author\">" . __('by', 'wordpress-popular-posts')." {$display_name}</span>" : " | <span class=\"wpp-author\">" . __('by', 'wordpress-popular-posts') ." {$display_name}</span>";
}

This code checks for the presence of Coauthors Plus, and will fail gracefully to the original code if not present, which would make it suitable for inclusion in a future release if the maintainer so wishes. It will also manage the proper punctuation of the list of names, no matter how many authors are on a post.

Thanks,
Brady

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