Bug #24280
closedGCDI blog post author attribution error
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Description
From Lisa Rhody (who is currently unable to log into Redmine):
I was working on updating pages on the website, when I realized that there is a new bug that has emerged on the GCDI site. For some reason, my name is being replaced with Patrick Sweeney's. You can see the error on the PDIG post from December: https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/12/22/call-for-applications-provosts-digital-innovation-grants/. The post is pulling the correct pronouns, but not the correct name. I have gone into the site and tried to update the value in the name field. As far as I can tell, this is not happening with other author names on the site.
Updated by Raymond Hoh about 2 months ago
- Status changed from Assigned to Reporter Feedback
The issue was due to having the Co-Authors Plus plugin activated on the GCDI site. Since it does not look like the plugin was in use, I deactivated it. Now Lisa's name is displaying as before.
If we want to use Co-Authors Plus on the GCDI site, we might have to make some changes to the theme to ensure that the correct author is displayed.
Updated by Matt Gold 14 days ago
Hi Ray - we would like to find a way to address this issue, where we have guest authors who are not members of the site in question. Chinmay (cc'ed here) found this plugin - https://wordpress.org/plugins/guest-author/ . Can you please check it out and see whether it might work for the Commons (ie, not a security risk, etc)?
Our goal is to have the author field on a blog post display the actual name of a guest author, who may not be a member of the site in question
Thanks in advance for your thoughts
Updated by Raymond Hoh 14 days ago
I think we should stick with the Co-Authors Plus plugin and look to make adjustments to the existing GCDI theme so it displays the proper author when that plugin is activated. I'll look into this.
Updated by Raymond Hoh 14 days ago
- Category name set to WordPress Plugins
- Status changed from Reporter Feedback to Staged for Production Release
- Target version set to 2.6.8
It looks like the wrong author display when using the Co-Authors Plus plugin can be traced to #14841.
The fix for the Co-Authors Plus issue with the Customizr theme caused some problems with other themes using Co-Authors Plus, which this issue brought up. I've just fixed this in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/fcb3c37b469f78483b546462e3d65fbc84518ed5 and have also pushed the fix to production.
Matt and Pranav, I've just reactivated the Co-Authors Plus plugin on the GCDI site. Feel free to experiment with the plugin by creating some guest authors at https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/users.php?page=view-guest-authors. Then attempt to create a new post with the guest author and see if everything is working as intended. Let me know if any issues come up.
Updated by Boone Gorges 10 days ago
- Status changed from Staged for Production Release to Resolved