James Miller

I just submitted a PR (https://github.com/Automattic/Edit-Flow/pull/499) with the updated JS file. It’s my first contribution to any repo that isn’t mine, so hopefully I did it correctly, and the change gets in there.

Are you using Give WP and any associated add-ons on your affected site? A conflict with one of the add-ons appears to be the culprit for me. Working now to narrow down which one.

Forget that. The real culprit was a javascript file in the Edit Flow plugin.

I updated [plugin_directory]/edit-flow/modules/editorial-comments/editorial-comments.js

There were a handful of instances where “$” was being used instead of “jQuery”.

No idea if that will help you, but I did a find ($) and replace (jQuery), deployed the changes to my client’s staging site, and that fixed the problem.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by James Miller. Reason: Mis-identified the cause of the bug

I have a client using this plug-in and their production site is on 4.9.9 (WP) and Co-Authors Plus 3.3.1. They’re also experiencing this exact issue.

I’ve upgraded to 5.0.3 in staging, thinking it might be related to changes made to accommodate the block editor that broke < 5.0 installs, but the issue remains on 5.0.3 as well.

I thought it might be the new CSS in 3.3.1, but that’s not it. The markup for the author selection isn’t even being written to the page.

I’m going to submit this as an issue on github as well.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by James Miller.

I have a client site the same issue, and they have Event Calendar Pro installed/activated.

Solution: if you’re using managed hosting and run into this, try purging all the caches.

Worked for me.