Clicking on a post’s author – unexpected behaviors

I agree the visible IP is a turnoff to visitors.

Also another suggestion: instead of “First Name, Last Name” being the visible, I think it’d be good to have the Username displayed. My users don’t even fill out first/last as an option, just username.

Also another feature suggestion that would be cool is having a “Categories” section. Tags help but categories could allow for both, aka https://maddenonline.ideascale.com/a/ideas/top/campaign-filter/byids/campaigns/13630/stage/unspecified

Hi @zo1234,

Please create a separate support thread for any issues you are experiencing with the plugin. If you have any feature requests please just put them in the IdeaPush demo page for consideration.

Hi @kaizerco,

Point 1 – it does show you posts by that author only, this is the default behaviour

Point 2 – We do this to ensure that people can’t create multiple accounts and rig the voting system. Every username created in WordPress has to be unique so we use the IP address to provide a unique identity to the user.

Point 3 – I am not sure what you mean, when an admin posts from the front or backend if you click their name the same behaviour happens as I mentioned in point 1 i.e. a page displays with just their ideas.

@kaizerco Following up on point 2, the version we just released removes the IP address from the username and instead uses a counter.

@zo1234 You can use the filter we provide to show the users username instead of their first and last name – please see the FAQ for more information on this filter

With the pro version you can create multiple boards so this is typically how different topics/categories are managed with IdeaPush. The free version provides a way for people to have an idea suggestion system for their website serving one general purpose, like how to improve my business, or support issues related to my business. If someone needs multiple topics then it suggests their usage of the plugin is more extensive and therefore warrants the pro version of the plugin. Also if you need separate topics on the one board, then this is what tags can be used for potentially, BUT also in the pro version we enable you to create custom fields and you could create a custom field which is a select field where someone can choose their topic. So this is a great way to utilise custom fields which are part of the pro version of the plugin.

Regarding point 3 (from 3 comments up):

If you go to my page at: https://flextools.cc/idea-push/
The admin’s author name is blank. What would be causing that?
Please see image:

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Like I wrote above, clicking on one of the other authors, I see all posts from all authors. Clicking on Max for example (the following link:
https://flextools.cc/author/john-smith-37.142.5.36/?post_type=idea)

The page that comes up looks like this (with all posts from all authors):

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Clicking on the authors at https://northernbeacheswebsites.com.au/ideapush-feature-requests/ gives a 404 too.

Please save the permalinks, please read the FAQ for more info. The issue on my site is actually a bug with the plugin which I have just resolved just then, but this is actually a different issue as to why yours is not working I suspect. For you I believe saving the permalinks will work.

When you say to save the permalinks, It’s not very clear from the FAQ, I’m guessing something like this:
https://typerocket.com/flushing-permalinks-in-wordpress/

I clicked to save changes, and nothing has changed. The admin’s author is still missing, and when clicking on any other author it lists all posts.

I am using a custom structure, if that makes any difference: /blog/%postname%/

Can you provide a link? Have you done any customisations to the plugin? What version are you using of the plugin?

https://flextools.cc/idea-push/

PHP Version: 7.0.32-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Wordpress Version: 4.9.8
Plugin Version: 4.17
Current Theme: Beaver Builder Child Theme

I’ve only had javascript customizations (no plugin alterations). The issue persists after disabling the javascript too.

Ok, sorry I should have expanded on this. Regarding the admin author, have you tried giving the admin a first and last name in the user profile of the admin?

On the issue with displaying posts, this is expected, however the layout of the ideas is not as expected. The ideas just look like normal posts and doesn’t look like the normal idea layout e.g. https://northernbeacheswebsites.com.au/author/test-test-85.145.30.114/?post_type=idea

I believe this could be due to your theme. Have you tried using the Twenty Sixteen theme and see if this changes the way the posts are laid out on the author page? IdeaPush inherits stuff from your theme so the experience is not going to be the same for different themes.

1. Giving the admin a first and last name in the user profile worked! I can now see the admin name first name.
You might want it to show the username or nickname in case the admin name is not present. Default regular blog posts were showing just fine (with the nickname or username) – I would have never thought of doing this.

2. I enabled Twenty Sixteen for a moment and the author pages (clicking on an author) looks like this:

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Hurrah!
The latest update fixing the permalink structure seems to have solved it!
https://flextools.cc/blog/author/yoni/?post_type=idea

However there are some new bugs (not necessarily ideapush related but please have a look just in case):

1. The formatting of the page is a bit screwy – It takes 100% of the page. Might have to do with customizations I have for the regular blog page at: https://flextools/blog

2. I have a custom widget that I added to my /blog page, but it seems to appear at the bottom of: https://flextools.cc/blog/author/yoni/?post_type=idea.
I’m wondering what I’d need in order to differentiate between the blog page and the ideapush blog.