Conflict that exists between Authors List and Molongui Authorship

Hi @ignitemedical

With the default settings for Molongui Authorship I don’t get that issue.

Can you let me know what changes you’ve made in the settings, I’ll apply the same and hopefully replicate the issue.

But it’s 99.99% a bug in the Molongui plugin. Our plugin “asks” WordPress for a list of users and info about them, and we simply output the name that we get.

The Molongui plugin has filters to modify what WordPress returns as the name (so they can display multiple names when there are multiple authors for a post) and it seems that there’s a bit of a bug there.

Certainly, please see https://recordings.ignitemedicalco.com/recordings/BO6BVOMXBepp1rsQUw4D

It’s mostly just the default setting, the only difference is that “Related Posts” is disabled.

But that option didn’t make a difference.

Something that comes to mind that could be the cause for the issue is if the theme has a custom WP query loop (posts query) for the archives and doesn’t call wp_reset_postdata() after that query.

That function basically tells WordPress “I’m done with the custom posts loop, revert the post data to the one from your original query”.

So if that’s skipped and the Molongui plugin tries to figure out where it’s at (to decide whether to filter or not), it will have the wrong information.

Not 100% sure that’s the case but that’s the only thing that comes to mind at the moment.

You can test that by simply switching to a default WordPress theme.

Sorry for the delay. Upon switching to a default theme the authors do not display at all but rather only the appropriate shortcode, this was the case with two different default themes. please see https://jomo.dev.ignitemedicalco.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/6-5-2023_YynYtwk7PS.jpeg

You’re using the WordPress “Custom HTML” widget which by default does not process shortcodes. The custom theme you have probably has some custom PHP code that filters out that output and makes the widget process shortcodes.

Add the shortcode in the “Text” widget, that one does process shortcodes.

Then do the test again.

Thanks. After switching to a “Text” Widget they do display. Unfortunately however, while using a default WP theme the initial issue still persists. When I deactivate the Molongui Authorship plugin the names display as expected.

It’s 99.99% an issue with Molongui then. Did you get in touch with their support as well?

Ill reach out, thank you

Quick FYI/follow up. Molongui was able to replicate the issue and will be updating their plugin with the changes. Thanks for your time and assistance!

Great, happy to hear that.

You’re welcome.