CPT / Elements / Content template / dynamic text + image / fields name

Great, Ying. This works very well.

How would you solve #1 und #2 for the Author Archive? See link below in the private section.

Best,
Jan

Hi Ying,

sorry for not getting back earlier.

No, the image and “read more” Button (“mehr erfahren” in German) don’t work.

I sense the Dynamic content/ image blocks work differently on the autor page.

Any advise is much appreciated.

Best regards,
Jan

Hi Ying,

meanwhile I was able to rund a few tests regarding the author avatar image:

Single page (CPT + Content template)
A – GB Image block / Dynamic data / Data source (current post) / Image Source (Author avatar) –> Image appears
B – Dynamic Image block / Type (author avatar) –> Image appears for users with Gravatar and for users with Basic User Avatar based images

Author archive page (Loop and Content template – both tested)
A – GB Image block –> n/a, Dynamic option option not available
B1 – Dynamic Image block / Type (author avatar) –> Image appears for users with Gravatar based images
B2 – Dynamic Image block / Type (author avatar) –> Image does not appears for users with Basic User Avatar based images

Any thoughts as to why B / B1 / B2 are generating different results?

Best regards,
Jan

Hi David,

thanks for getting back. I followed your advise and activated the Simple Local Avatar plugin. Unfortunately, The result is still the same ;-(

I did some further testing and observed that not only the avatar image is missing, but also the author’s first and last name (both configured in the Loop template) . The breadcrumb and title should come in via Page Hero element. Those are missing also for archive page #2 (see links below).

Test results: the issue not related…

• to Roles / Privileges in WordPress: I assigned Super-User-Roles to Cindy (page #2) with no effect.
• to the Local Avatar plugin: Even w/o the plugin active the (Grav)Avatar from Tom is not showing (page #3)
• to the child theme: with the GP default theme active, the issue remains
• to the user login: page 1 is related to my own admin-user. But even in private mode without login the issue remains the same

Then I thought the only author archive page loading correctly is related to my own user which actually is the only one that created blog posts. So I temp. assigned a blog post to Cindy and voila the author pages loads correctly ;-).

Are you aware of any filter that would show related CPT posts even if the author is not linked to any blog post? We may be able to extend the existing function for activating the author support:

// CPT Hilfe Chat - Activate author support

function add_author_support_to_posts() {
  add_post_type_support( 'wg_seo_chat', 'author' ); 
}
add_action( 'init', 'add_author_support_to_posts' );

Any advise is much appreciated.

Best regards,
Jan

Wow, Ying. This works like a charm.

Many thanks.

An interesting observation regarding the YOAST breadcrumb block: It only shows if the user/ author has a regular blog post assigned.

Pls see page #2 from Cindy who does not have a blog post assigned and compare it to page #3 from Jan (with blog post assignment).

How would you explain/ fix that?

Thanks,
Jan

Thanks for sharing your valuable view, David. Much appreciated.

I’ll reach out to the YOAST Support for further assistance.

One more thing: How do you identify user meta field names? Background: There are other fields like “Website” or “Expertise” which I’d like to pull into the author archive page also.

Thanks,
Jan

Hi David,

I got you.

The rational behind:

• Search for “wordpress function user meta” in Google
• Retrieve the related function
• Look-up the related WordPress reference documentation
• Obtain a list of all fields available in the WordPress standard

If standard field are no good (for whatever reason) use custom field + custom function (get_*) to pull related data into a page.

It is always a pleasure working with professionals like yourself.

Thanks,
David