Molongui Multiple Authors Name Glitch in tdb_module_author_name

Molongui Co-Authors plugin seems to work great for co-authors except for this one critical glitch –

when using the tdb_module_author_name block inside of a custom module, it seems like my admin author is always listed instead of the correct author name. Curiously though, it does seem to link the href to the correct author page. Therefore, on category pages such as fnewsmagazine.com/category/news where i’m using the module template, the author is always fnewsmagazine, although when clicked it does bring you to the correct author. This can also be seen on our homepage and the date archive page. It just says F Newsmagazine as the author rather than the actual authors and co-authors.

In contrast, it works properly (including the multiple authors) on the author page we’ve created, which is using the Flex Block 1 element – td_flex_block_1
shown here: https://fnewsmagazine.com/wp62/author/d-l-adams/

One other curious element of this – when i load the module template editor, it lists the admin author in the box, but when i place a new author name module block in the composer, it does correctly get the name of the author, however when i save and reload the template, it seems to load the admin author name again instead of the correct author.

Disabling the Molongui plugin stops this behavior. I’m using the latest versions of TagDiv and Molongui

Thanks for your time in looking into this!

In the meantime, i’m curious if I can just add a shortcode that molongui provided in this link explaining the integration issues with TagDiv in place of the author module name. The link says to just add a text element with [[molongui_byline]] shortcode in it, however it seems like when I add an inline text with the shortcode as the content, it just shows the shortcode code and doesn’t actually display the data. Let me know if you have any guidance on this as well.

Thanks for your time!

I noticed also that raw HTML is not available as a block in the module template builder, so that may be why I was having an issue adding a short code to the module template. Any work around for this? I’d like to use the custom module templates instead of the pre-made flex block elements, since I can customize them further.

Thank you!

Thank you for taking the time to look into this issue and for your quick response!

I’ll think about how to execute the workaround you suggested while the bug is looked into. Do you have any guidance on that? I’m comfortable going into php or editing code, so let me know! Thank you!

Hi there,

Is there any update on the progress of this bug?

I’m needing a solution ASAP, so I’ve been looking into how to add the authors via a custom field but I need a solution that’s appropriate for a site that has thousands of posts. Currently I don’t see a way to dynamically update or include co-authors in the ACF field without manually updating every single post after making said custom field.

I could make a custom PHP shortcode that gets the Molongui author list, but it doesn’t seem like the text elements in the module editor execute shortcodes. Is there any way to execute a shortcode for the post in the module?

Thank you!