Issue with Custom Post Type and Display Posts Shortcode plugin

Your co-authors are actually stored as a custom taxonomy. You can use something like this instead:

[display-posts taxonomy=”author” tax_term=”editor” post_type=”research”]

Thank you. And it appears that only displays posts in which the author is listed as a co-author, not the first author. So I have to use my shortcode twice: once to display posts in which the person is the primary author, and again to display the posts in which the person is a co-author. Is this the way it’s supposed to function? Is there any way to include all of these together (I’m trying to sort them by most recent)?

There’s a known limitation of the Co-Authors Plus plugin in that if you install it on a site where you’ve already been publishing for a while, it won’t create author terms for all of the posts that have already been published.

If you go into some of the posts that are missing and hit “Update”, it will properly assign the term and the post will show up.

Good to know. Thanks very much for that insight.

Hi, I just updated to the most recent version and this solution no longer works. Is there a different format for taxonomy that’s being used now?

When I use [display-posts taxonomy=”author” tax_term=”editor” post_type=”research”] nothing is displayed even though “editor” is manually reassigned to the posts they own.

Odd. Does it work for other authors?

It doesn’t seem to be working for any author.

For reference, my posts which I had previously tagged using the co-authors plugin still appear using this shortcode. However, when I create a new post or update an old post and assign new co-authors, they don’t appear using taxonomy=”author” and tax_term=”author name”…

If you’re not sure right now, any chance I could get a copy of an older 2.9.x version of this plugin, as that seemed to work?

And by that, I mean 2.6.4

It would be better to get this fixed and released for the next version. Can you share the code you’re using to register your CPT and a couple of example users (what their user_login and user_nicenames)? Did you edit the user nicenames?

Oh, maybe there’s an easier fix. Can you try prefixing your tax_term with ‘cap-‘?

I just tried prefixing my tax_term with ‘cap-‘, so that it says taxonomy=”author” tax_term=”cap-editor” but it didn’t help. It could not find any posts.

I’m using the Custom Post Types plugin. This is the code it generates:

register_post_type('research', array(	'label' => 'Research','description' => '','public' => true,'show_ui' => true,'show_in_menu' => true,'capability_type' => 'post','hierarchical' => true,'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'research'),'query_var' => true,'menu_position' => 5,'supports' => array('title','editor','excerpt','custom-fields','revisions','thumbnail','author','page-attributes',),'labels' => array (
  'name' => 'Research',
  'singular_name' => 'Research',
  'menu_name' => 'Research',
  'add_new' => 'Add New',
  'add_new_item' => 'Add New Research',
  'edit' => 'Edit',
  'edit_item' => 'Edit Research',
  'new_item' => 'New Research',
  'view' => 'View Research',
  'view_item' => 'View Reseach',
  'search_items' => 'Search Research',
  'not_found' => 'No Research Found',
  'not_found_in_trash' => 'No Research found in Trash',
  'parent' => 'Parent Research',
),) );

I did edit several of the user nicenames a while back from how they were originally created, in order to be consistent. Here are a couple of examples:
user_login: ifwe-admin
user_nicname: admin

user_login:tbadorrek
user_nicename: trevor-badorrek