Front-end bylines show creator instead of assigned author
Front-end author names show the post creator or a stale user instead of the assigned co-author after plugin updates.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
7 public reports · first reported 18 June 2022 · last reported 23 September 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners using this co-author plugin with block themes, widgets, newsletters and feeds report that the byline shows the person who created the post rather than the co-author assigned to it. Some report a widget repeating the name of the archive owner for every post, and guest authors missing from RSS feeds. The problem appears after updates and affects publishers who rely on accurate credits. A checker that compares assigned authors with every rendered output could catch these mismatches before readers do.
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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