Block editor author panel fails after update
The block editor Authors panel fails to load with a request error after the 4.16.0 update.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 11 July 2026 · last reported 17 September 2026
What's going wrong
After updating this plugin to version 4.16.0, several site owners found the Authors panel in the post editor stopped loading and showed a generic request error.
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