Adding “Author” inside the CPT UI admin conflicts with Visual Composer

Honestly it sounds like this is more likely to be an issue on the Visual Composer side. We don’t do anything special to add things to the post editor screen. We’re not presently aware of any conflicts, as the editor screen would still only be being rendered/constructed by WordPress core.

Thank you, I’ll tackle it from that side then.

Welcome, and let me know if they come back with anything that we need to review.

Hi Michael,

WP Bakery Visual Composer support looked at the problem for me and said:

“The issue at your end is irrespective of visual composer. We deactivated the visual composer and repeated the same steps: and you can see that the same issue exists:”

I feel stupid for not trying that myself but bottom line is that the visual composer plugin is not the culprit. If you have any ideas as to why this is happening or maybe if you have a work around like showing me how to manually put the code in without utilizing the plugin to do it?

The reason I’m doing this in the first place is that some of my content is 20+ years old but it’s being plagiarized all over the web. I’m having a hard time even proving that it’s my content so I’m hoping that adding an author and date will help.

Thank you for looking at this for me,
Mike

Would you be willing to provide a temporary admin user for me to see things first hand with? I’m still dubious that it’s something that CPTUI is causing because getting the author metabox shown with a custom post type is extremely basic and just part of a standard WP function call. We’re not doing anything extra special with regard to the topic.

Alternatively, perhaps there’s a different plugin going on that is causing some issue? May be worth looking through the active plugins and seeing if any revolve around the topic of post authorship. If any do, would be worth deactivating temporarily to see if things behave like expected at that point.

No problem providing the login but how do I do it privately?

Also, there are no authorship type plugins but I’ll deactivate every plugin one at a time to see if the issue is with one of them.

michael @ webdevstudios . com will reach me privately.

For anyone stumbling by.

The issue was that once any “supports” item is checked, then every item desired needs to be checked. When none are selected, CPTUI defaults to title/editor/featured image. Once “Author” was selected and that was, at the time, the only one checked, it was the only one registered. Once we checked Title and Post Editor again, everything worked.