Issue with multiple author templates

We could really use some help on this issue.

Co-Authors works on this page https://vods.leaguepedia.com/profile/leaguepedia/

but for a different profile that is assigned to “Gamers”, it doesn’t work.. For instance, this page — https://vods.leaguepedia.com/profile/link/

Thank you

To confirm — both of you are using the template tags in your theme?

However this second version which is basically the same template is not showing the post on the co-authors page.

This sounds like your theme uses an alternate query to generate the list of co-author posts. Can you share what’s inside of your author.php template using pastebin?

Thank you for your reply!

Yes, I have been adding the templates tags to any file that includes the_author_post_links but not to the template pages below as I was unsure about “the_author_meta” and other variances. We have two author templates, “author.php” and “author-template-gamer.php”. The code for each is pasted below.

Thank you so much for your assistance!
-Matt

author.php
https://pastebin.com/sbspd4Dg

author-template-gamer.php
https://pastebin.com/HZmrwuKb

It looks like you have something like the following in both templates:

$args = array(
          'view' => 'grid-small',
          'cat' => $cat,
          'link' => $link,
          'author' => $user_id,
          'post_type' => 'post',
          'ignore_sticky_posts' => true,
          'posts_per_page' => 3
);
dp_section_box($args);

This means the posts in those sections are limited to posts where post_author == $user_id. Because Co-Authors Plus stores byline information as taxonomy terms, I suspect that any post where the user is the second author is missing from your list.

I’m not sure how dp_section_box() works, but you might be able to pass a tax query to it. If that’s the case, it would look something like this:

$args = array(
          'view' => 'grid-small',
          'cat' => $cat,
          'link' => $link,
          'tax_query' => array(
                    array(
                              'taxonomy' => 'author',
                              'term' => get_queried_object()->user_login,
                              'field' => 'name',
                    )
          ),
          'post_type' => 'post',
          'ignore_sticky_posts' => true,
          'posts_per_page' => 3
);
dp_section_box($args);

That worked!! I just had to change ‘term’ to ‘terms’ and it fixed the issue! Thank you so much!

Hey Daniel,

First thanks so much for the assistance you’ve been a great help.

However we’re noticing a weird issue with the new code in place. Some thumbnails are not showing for the 4 categories we have on the gamer templates. The category thumbnails missing are not specific but random.

Using the older version of author-template-gamer fixes everything but then we’re back to where we were.

Is there anything you can see in the code you provided that is causing this issue?

Example:

https://vods.leaguepedia.com/profile/chaox/
https://vods.leaguepedia.com/profile/scarra/

As you can see each one has different thumbnails showing even though each category has content.

Thanks again for helping us with this issue.