Hello,
All of our author boxes within our articles have disappeared. This occurred without an update to the Newspaper version, but it appears our Publish Press plugin, which we use for the author boxes, was updated on Wednesday. I’m guessing this is when the problem occurred. For the author boxes within posts we have been using a shortcode block at the beginning of the post with [author_box] as the code and then the shortcode block again at the end of the article with [author_box layout=”boxed”] as the code.
Do you think this is a problem with WordPress, The Newspaper Theme, or the Publish Press plugin? Any advice is appreciated. Thank you.
For testing you could activate the WordPress debug option in your wpconfig file. You can also ‘roll back’ the PublishPress plugin to prior version to see if that fixes it. I also usually check the feedback on the plugin page on wordpress.org (if applicable), as this will often show hiccups like recent WordPress update that broke cURL; or the Yoast update that broke stuff for some folks. Learning to rollback a plugin is a great skill to have for this kind of shenanigans.
(I don’t work here.)
Simchris, thank you very much for the tips. Indeed, when I rolled back Publish Press to its previous version, all the author blocks reappeared. Then I re-updated Publish Press to its current version and the author boxes no longer appear. It doesn’t look like there are any complaints on the WordPress forum, however, I’m only on the free version, so maybe the paid version addresses this problem. I submitted the question on the free forum, but have not heard a reply. For security reasons I think I’ll keep the plugin in its most recent version until I hear a response. Thanks again.
