Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup importing bio?

  • Fancier Author Box Plug-in by ThematoSoup is displaying bio information on an author’s posts that isn’t found anywhere in the backend. Even did an exact match search of the DB and it isn’t there either. The Plug-in developers FAQ says that FAB doesn’t actually contain bio information, it simply displays it. If that’s the case, then it should be in my database, no?
    The bio information being displayed is outdated and incorrect, and I need to get it edited. But in order to do so, I need to find where this plugin is grabbing it. Any ideas would be very much appreciated.

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  • Hi Doc,

    You can find the field in your user profile (Users > Your Profile). The field name is Biographical Info, and it’s under About Yourself heading.

    Thread Starter DocSheldon

    (@docsheldon)

    Thanks for the response, Slobodan. Unfortunately, this isn’t my profile, it’s that of my departed partner, who still has several authored posts on the site. And when I visit her profile page, the bio block is totally empty.
    What really surprised me was that an exact match search of my database didn’t find the information that is currently appearing in her FAB on her posts.

    Thread Starter DocSheldon

    (@docsheldon)

    I suppose I could simply disable FAB for her posts, but I prefer not to have to do that. And I’d really like to know where this bio data is being imported from.

    Doc,

    There really is nowhere else it could be coming from, you can look at the code, it just displays user bio field and nothing else:

    https://github.com/wp-plugins/fancier-author-box/blob/master/includes/ts-fab-construct-tabs.php#L155

    I wish I could be of more help, but I’m 100% certain that’s how it works, I wrote the code.

    There could be another plugin that filters output of user bio, but I can’t guarantee that is the case.

    DB search part is weird, but it must be somewhere in the database, unless it’s hardcoded in a PHP file, which is only possible if the plugin was edited.

    Thread Starter DocSheldon

    (@docsheldon)

    Yeah, I saw how it calls it calls it, which is what blew me away when I found her bio empty. I’ll do some more digging and let you know what I find. Thanks, Slobodan!

    Thread Starter DocSheldon

    (@docsheldon)

    Found it, Slobodan! I was wrong, the data that was being displayed WAS in the DB. In the zzt0p_usermeta table. Now I just need to find how THAT was being called, rather than the user profile info.

    Thread Starter DocSheldon

    (@docsheldon)

    Thanks, Slobodan!

    Happy to help! ??

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