Author Page-Author Box only displays if author has posts

Hi @carberrymagazine

Thanks for using PublishPress Authors.

This is not related to our plugin. That is just how your themes coded where if no post from that author, it will show nothing.

You have 2 options to solved this:

1. Enable our Author Pages: https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/author-pages/
   It will overwrite your author archive from theme with our author archive from our plugin
2. Manually add Author Box shortcode on your author archive theme: https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/shortcodes/

Let me know if you have any questions.

I already have the author page override enabled. I’m not sure what the issue is then.

I have custom CSS for the author box I’m using with the author page:

.ppma-author-pages {
display: block;
margin-left: auto !important;
margin-right: auto !important;
width: var(--wp--style--global--wide-size);
}

.avatar {
margin-right: 50px;
align-self: center;
}

.author {
font-size: inherit;
font-family: inherit;
font-style: inherit;
color: inherit;
text-decoration: inherit;
display: table-row;
}

.ppma-author-job_title-profile-data {
display: table-row;
}

.ppma-page-content.list .article-image {
width: unset;
}

.ppma-page-content.list .article-image img {
object-fit: cover;
}

.ppma-page-content.list a:not(.read-more):not(.page-numbers) {
font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--x-large);
font-family: var(--wp--preset--font-family--im-fell-great-primer-sc);
text-decoration: none;
color: var(--wp--preset--color--custom-color-3);
}

Okay, so I switched back to the default author archive pages and used shortcodes to fill in author info. I was able to get it working.

@carberrymagazine I’m glad to hear it was working fine when you add them manually.

We appreciate you using our plugin!