Editor author picker spins or finds no users
Author picker in the post editor finds no users, keeps a spinner running, or drops the selected author after saving.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
9 public reports · first reported 11 July 2025 · last reported 29 July 2026
What's going wrong
Many site owners running this co-author plugin on multi-author sites say the author picker in the post editor stops working. Searches return nothing, the spinner never ends, newly added users do not appear until the cache is cleared, and selected authors vanish after saving a draft. Some report the editor sidebar failing to render at all after an update, and searches by first or last name fail. Editors lose time and sometimes publish with the wrong credit. Regular testing of the editor workflow after each update could catch these failures early.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports.
Products affected
Co-Authors Plus.
Related problems
Who has this problem
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