Hello, I had a much better explanation written out but this ticketing system wiped it out so it could refresh the page and ticket number. Note these page examples are super beta. I'm just trying to get the functionality to work right before continuing with fine-tuning.
I am seeing an issue where when I have an author that does not have any posts, the title on the author (archive) page is correct, but all the page blocks and plugins pull data from random authors.
Maybe I am going about this the wrong way but what I am trying to do is create a dynamic page with all the post/sermon author's info. Their avatar, bio, posts, and sermons. I am accomplishing this by using TheGem Tabs and Tours and putting global sections inside the tabs. The link to the page is generated in TheGem author box at the bottom of post/sermon pages, where it says "more posts by *authorName*". In the URL I provided ( https://new.gracetemplecogic.com/author/phil-riles) the user has no posts but they do have sermons (custom post-type). When visiting the page the title is correct, but avatar and posts/sermons are for a completely different person. Avatar doesn't match title or post authors. This happens to all users with no posts.
As a test, I assigned a different user one post and everything works properly suddenly ( https://new.gracetemplecogic.com/author/pastor-harris). So while page title consistently properly pulls the "queried author" probably from the url slug, all the other plugins are falling back to whatever author they could find instead of just saying "no posts" or something like that. . I am not sure if a normal page would be better than an archive for this, or if that wouldn't work at all. The archive page seems to only focus on normal posts and ignores sermons which is a custom post-type. Furthermore, I am not sure of this is an issue with TheGem or Elementor. This custom archive template is assigned to posts and sermons under Theme options>archive pages>post/sermon
The idea I'm trying to mimic is based on the active site we use (https://gracetemplecogic.com/about/people/contact.php?u=pastor-harris). That site is non-Wordpress and straight programming with a CRUD Admin Dashboard. Only thing I didn't do was the theme itself as I'm more back-end oriented. With the new site I am just tinkering with and playing around with WordPress mainly for familiarity to be honest.
Hello, I had a much better explanation written out but this ticketing system wiped it out so it could refresh the page and ticket number. Note these page examples are super beta. I'm just trying to get the functionality to work right before continuing with fine-tuning.
I am seeing an issue where when I have an author that does not have any posts, the title on the author (archive) page is correct, but all the page blocks and plugins pull data from random authors.
Maybe I am going about this the wrong way but what I am trying to do is create a dynamic page with all the post/sermon author's info. Their avatar, bio, posts, and sermons. I am accomplishing this by using TheGem Tabs and Tours and putting global sections inside the tabs. The link to the page is generated in TheGem author box at the bottom of post/sermon pages, where it says "more posts by *authorName*". In the URL I provided ( https://new.gracetemplecogic.com/author/phil-riles) the user has no posts but they do have sermons (custom post-type). When visiting the page the title is correct, but avatar and posts/sermons are for a completely different person. Avatar doesn't match title or post authors. This happens to all users with no posts.
As a test, I assigned a different user one post and everything works properly suddenly ( https://new.gracetemplecogic.com/author/pastor-harris). So while page title consistently properly pulls the "queried author" probably from the url slug, all the other plugins are falling back to whatever author they could find instead of just saying "no posts" or something like that.
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I am not sure if a normal page would be better than an archive for this, or if that wouldn't work at all. The archive page seems to only focus on normal posts and ignores sermons which is a custom post-type. Furthermore, I am not sure of this is an issue with TheGem or Elementor. This custom archive template is assigned to posts and sermons under Theme options>archive pages>post/sermon
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pastor page.png
The idea I'm trying to mimic is based on the active site we use (https://gracetemplecogic.com/about/people/contact.php?u=pastor-harris). That site is non-Wordpress and straight programming with a CRUD Admin Dashboard. Only thing I didn't do was the theme itself as I'm more back-end oriented. With the new site I am just tinkering with and playing around with WordPress mainly for familiarity to be honest.