My authors are disappearing

Hi @digiroutes

I’m currently seeing 12 on that page.

Did you make any author and user roles related changes before the issue happened?

The plugin uses a native WordPress function to get the info about the authors and for some reason it’s not getting the full list.

What happens if you add only_authors="no" to the shortcode?

So your shortcode would be:

[authors_list style="3" columns="4" amount="90" avatar_size="200" show_bio="no" show_count="no" show_link="no" only_authors="no"]

Ah thank you for your feedback … yes I sent it to a developer I had been working with who had installed SearchWP plugin and addons for authors so they were searchable and seemingly once he deactivated them they came back ?? However, I wonder if you know how we can fix the fact that only authors with posts display and we would like all authors to display irrespective if they have any posts or not. It’s to encourage those authors that have not yet added posts to do so.
many thanks in advance .. it’s a great little plugin!
Val

Hi @digiroutes

Happy to hear you found the cause of the problem.

As for showing those who don’t have any posts yet, add skip_empty="no" to the shortcode.

Thanks you for your support .. it really is very much appreciated. The issue I have now is that it is showing ALL users .. not just authors now.
[authors_list only_authors=”yes” skip_empty=”no” style=”3″ columns=”4″ amount=”90″ avatar_size=”200″ show_bio=”no” show_count=”no” show_link=”no”]

Any advice again is very appreciated
thank you
Val

Hi @digiroutes

The only_authors="yes" limits it to those users that have the capability to edit posts.

Is it showing regular users as well, those that are just subscribers (no capability of editing anything except their profile)?

thank you for getting back to me .. fantastic support! I’ve managed to fix it myself by trawling through the support for a previous thread similar to the issue I’ve had. I changed this
authors_list only_author=”yes”
to this authors_list roles=”author”
And it worked!
Great plugin .. thank you!
best
Val

Hi @digiroutes

You’re welcome.

Great, happy to hear you found the solution.