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Renji,

Can you explain the “action=flush’ trick you used to get it to stop displaying duplicates?

Hi Mitcho,

I’m having the same issue.

For example: https://www.thecollaredsheep.com/cartoon-i-am-looking-for-a-position/

triple links to the same post. It just started happening with the most recent update I believe.

Any ideas?

Guys – really could use some help on this? Any ideas at all?

Finally figured it out – needed to use get_the_author_meta instead of just the_author_meta

function my_author_box() { 	

$author_name = the_author();
$site_link = get_the_author_meta('user_url');
$author_desc = get_the_author_meta('description');
$facebook_link = get_the_author_meta('aim');
$twitter_link = get_the_author_meta('yim');
$author_img_link = get_the_author_meta('jabber');

$return_text = '<div id="author-info"><div id="author-image"><a href="'.$site_link.'"><img src="'.$author_img_link.'" alt="'.$author_name.'" title="'.$author_name.'"/></a></div><div id="author-bio"><h4>Written by '.$author_name.'</h4><p>'.$author_desc.'</p></div></div>';

return $return_text;

}
add_shortcode('authorbox', 'my_author_box');

btw – that function is placed in functions.php

Samboll – thanks, that’s a good start, but it’s not quite the answer I’m looking for because they don’t mention how to reconnect to the other DB.

Essentially, I have an external site. It has its own database. I want it to have the same header, footer, and sidebar of my wordpress site. I call wp-blog-header.php on the external page, and it then displays the header correctly.

However, I believe it resets the DB connection to the wordpress site. I need it to be set back to the other DB. Any idea how to do this? Can I avoid the DB connection to the wordpress DB from wp-blog-header? Is there a better way to do this? Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.