I’ve started to look into this. The functionality is, in part, intentional. There’s a setting at Dashboard > PressForward > Preferences > Site Options called “Show item_author as source”. When set to ‘Yes’, PressForward changes the way that author information is displayed in contexts like your widget:
- The name of the WP author is replaced with the name of the WP user (post_author) from the source content (stored as ‘item_author’ in postmeta)
- The author URI is replaced with the URI of the source item.
So, the immediate question is why, in your specific case the URI is being replaced by the ?p=12345 URI that links right back to the current item.
I have a feeling it has something to do with the specific way in which you’re using PressForward on your site. PF assumes that you will be pulling content from external sites, either using the Nominate This bookmarklet tool, or by subscribing to the RSS feed. But I suspect that, in your case, you may be importing items into the PF workflow from your own site. Is that correct?
Alternatively, what we might have here is: You created https://amazingstories.com/2023/10/clubhouse-review-the-sapien-empire-by-nathan-ogloff/ as a regular WP Post (Dashboard > Posts > Add New). This puts it in the same ‘posts’ bucket that PF uses for items that have been promoted through the PF workflow. Is this the case? If so, PF doesn’t really do a good job detecting and accommodating this scenario. I’d say that, when PF detects that a post has been created outside the PF workflow, it should skip the author name/URI filtering, even when the ‘Show item_author…’ setting is ‘yes’. I can probably build something along these lines, but it would be helpful first if you can confirm that this is indeed what’s happening in your case.
