Missing authors

  • If I sort by the authors first name or default all is good.
    If I sort by authors last name a couple of authors to go missing.

    I have cleared the cache and checked in a couple of diff browsers.
    Still missing.

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  • Hello @astroruss,

    Just as seeds of thought… Amazon sometimes has crap data that been entered in to their Db, this gets pulled back and in particular this happens with the authors last name.

    For example whoever edits or updates Amazon, likes to put the word Author in the the Author field when they shouldn’t, this plays havoc with the ordering filters.
    i.e…
    Author: Dan Brown (author)

    or

    Author: James Patterson and (author) Jo Nesbo

    These will end up alphabetically at the beginning because of the letter “A” in author.

    So you can see sometimes you may have to sanitize the crap data to allow the filters to separate the names out and order the books entries correctly.

    Take a look at the books that change and then look at and edit the author field entries to check if there are any oddities.

    Jake has to do a lot of work to separate out the first an last names as Amazon does not provide a separate Db table for surnames.

    So in short the old expression still stands crap data in crap data out.

    Some editorial administration by human eye is needed I am afraid, however Jakes filters do a great job considering.

    Andrew

    Thread Starter SWolf

    (@astroruss)

    Nice try,
    But all of the missing books have just the author name IE Steven Bird.
    and it’s not a matter of being out of order alphabetically.
    The books are MISSING.

    Hello?@astroruss,

    We have 3300 books listed and never had this problem, I don’t know how many you have listed, we are on ver 5.8.4 so if you are on the latest 6 plus then there maybe white space issues that mean certain results don’t get get included is the Db return result.

    However, I was just offering my experience as stated previously a SEED OF THOUGHT.

    Please appreciate that the wordpress members are here to help support you and not debate with you, PLEASE REMEMBER THAT.

    Andrew

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