Cannot remove the last author once post is saved

[paulschreiber]

If you assign a co-author to a post, save it, and reload the page, the Remove link disappears. You can no longer remove that author.

[rebeccahum]

@paulschreiber Are you still experiencing this issue?

[paulschreiber]

Yes. The problem still occurs in 3.2.

[rebeccahum]

@paulschreiber I'm having trouble reproducing the issue. Do you have any other plugins that may be affecting Co-Authors Plus?

[paulschreiber]

I don't think that's the problem. If you look at the source code, that's what the intended behaviour is:

// Hide the delete button if there's only one co-author

[rebeccahum]

Yes, because you cannot have less than 1 author in a post.

[paulschreiber]

No, that's not correct. If you create a post, and your user account isn't associated with a CoAuthor, that post has no authors. You can save or publish that post.

[rebeccahum]

Hi Paul, I think we are having a little miscommunication here haha! A co-author, in the context of a single post, a guest author or user assigned to the post alongside others. Therefore, there needs to be at least one co-author in a post, whether it is a guest author or a user. On my end of things, I'm still seeing the "Remove" link unless there is one co-author in a post. Perhaps you can give me specific steps so I can reproduce the issue?

[trepmal]

Currently, requiring at least one co-author is by design. However, I'm not sure of the original reasoning behind that. I expect it was to mimic core behavior.

@paulschreiber I know your original post was from a while back, but would you happen to have the use case for removing the last author and not replacing it?

[nielslange]

Hello @paulschreiber, I assume that you missed @trepmal's last message, as you haven't replied yet.

If I understand your case correctly, you have a regular user (User A) and a guest author (User B). The guest author account is linked to the user account, and you want to be able to show User A as the author of the post instead of User B. Can you confirm that this is what you have in mind?

[paulschreiber]

Some posts don't have a byline — like a live blog, or interactive. We wouldn't want to list all 12 people who contributed as authors, as that would be unwiedly.

[nielslange]

If I understand you correctly, @paulschreiber, in this case you would have a post, multiple user would write on the same post, but the post itself is not assigned to a single author. Is that correct?

[paulschreiber]

The post would not have any CoAuthors.

[EarthlingDavey]

Is there any info or a workaround on this?