In that case, perhaps a different approach. Add your own hook and change the plugin to call later
In your td_module_1, you could add a hook. Change $buffy .= $this->get_content();
To this:
$buffy .= $this->get_content();
my_after_content_hook($buffy);Then in your plugin files, you need to find the add_filter( 'the_content', 'the_plugin_function_name', $priority); and change it to add_filter( 'my_after_content_hook', 'the_plugin_function_name', $priority);
The get_author_box() function is what Newspaper uses to display Author info on the front end. This function takes a single user ID and generates everything from that. After a quick glance at the code it looks like what needs to be done is to convert the output of the Co-Authors plugin to an array of IDs so that we can iterate over it to get the get_author_box() function to create the boxes using the Author IDs:
First, you would need something like this(assuming you have the Co-Authors Plus plugin installed) in the functions.php:
if(function_exists('coauthors')){
$coauthor_names = coauthors( null, null, null, null, false );
$user_ids = array();
function coauthor_names_to_ids(){
$names = explode(' ', $coauthor_names);
foreach($names as $name){
// We would probably need to add another function here to make sure that the $name matches any one of our authors slugs and then if $name == 'author-slug' then we could procede to get the ID and add it to the $user_IDs array so that we only have an array of valid IDs.
$user = get_user_by( 'slug', wptexturixe($name));
$user_ids[] .= $user->ID;
}
return $user_ids;
}
coauthor_names_to_ids();
}And then all you would have to do get them to appear on the front end (in td_module_1 for example) is something like this:
//Iterates through the user ids
foreach($user_ids as $coauthor_id){
//creates an author box for each of the coauthor ids
$buffy .= get_author_box($coauthor_id);
}I haven’t debugged this code, some work would probably need to be done to make sure the exploded $names array matches slugs properly but it appears to be one way to tackle the problem. Another would be to modify the Co-Authors plugin to be able to return the co-author IDs as well as links. I suppose you could also modify the get_author_box() function to accept the author name as an argument…
