Recent upgrade to Gutenberg broke author name on posts

  • Resolved tazling

    (@tazling)


    1 year, 4 months ago

    I and a colleague run a small online newspaper for our local community, based on WP. We are by no means expert WordPress hackers — that’s actually an understatement — but we muddle through. We are stumped by this problem however; after a recent upgrade to Gutenberg, our front page and our post pages no longer display the author name, which used to appear in a one-line gray banner along with date, “Leave a comment” link, and (for admins) “Edit” link.

    Date and the two links still appear correctly. BUT…

    …instead of the author name, all that is displayed is a superscript [1], as if the (missing) author name had become a footnoted word or citation. We have no idea what is going on here, or even where to begin to look for the problem. I’m guessing wildly it has something to do with Gutenberg’s “Author Box” but have no idea how to get closer than that.

    If some person actually knowledgeable about themes and plugins could give me a nudge in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.

    Gutenberg version: 16.1.0

    ah heck, here’s the plugin list

    our theme is twenty-fourteen-child.

    Help… over 2500 articles just became anonymous. Our contributors are not going to be amused.

    [afterthought — I should have mentioned, the superscript [1] is a live link, and if you click on it you are transported to a list of all articles by that author. So WP does remember who wrote the article, and is displaying a “footnote” to a compilation of all that person’s posts; it’s just not displaying the author’s name.]

    • This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by tazling.

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  • I’m curious: why are you running the Gutenberg plugin at all?

    Note that you don’t need this plugin at all to use the block Editor (aka Gutenberg)… as the “production-ready” version is already integrated into WordPress out of the box.

    As noted on the description page, the Gutenberg plugin is the testing ground for bleeding-edge features yet to be integrated into the native Block Editor in WordPress.

    If you’re not a plugin/theme developer and not someone who craves for technical pain (aka early adopter), you have no need to run this “perpetual beta” plugin at all.

    Thread Starter tazling

    (@tazling)

    Thanks for the illuminating comment! I have no idea why Gutenberg is installed and enabled, I inherited this nightmare from someone else… the site is quite old, like over 10 years, so it may be baggage from long ago. I can try disabling it and see what happens, I guess. Thanks for the bread crumb…

    [a few minutes later] thanks VERY MUCH for that breadcrumb. disabling Gutenberg solves the problem.

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