Bug in Twitter Username field

Hi @jibril84

From what I understand you managed to figure out the issue, correct?

Basically yes, it’s the browser (Firefox) that identifies that field as a “username” field and fills it with the username I saved for my domain. In version 1 of the plugin, however, it did not happen, but maybe something has changed in Firefox. So it’s not a real bug, maybe some sort of compatibility issue with Firefox. I’ll have to remember to check that field and clear it when I make changes to authors.

Ohhh, yeah, I see the problem.

But the field is not handled by our plugin, it’s added by “Yoast SEO” plugin, our plugin simply uses the value of the field.

I played with the “Yoast SEO” code a bit and figured out what’s confusing Firefox. The label for that field contains the word “username” which makes Firefox autofill that field with the value it remembers for the real username field.

Solution is basically that they change that label for that field or disable autofill for it, but for that the only approach is to contact “Yoast SEO” support.

Edit:

Or you could install Loco Translate plugin and modify that text string so it doesn’t contain “username”

But it is an issue that would affect many people so I’m sure they’ll update the plugin with the fix.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by WPKube.

Oh that’s right! I completely forgot that that part is from Yoast SEO and not from your plugin! I apologize for the confusion. And thanks for your reply and your patience ??

No worries. You’re welcome ??