[Bug]: Theme - Lovecraft - Post Meta: Author not displayed properly

[pak-cia]

Quick summary

The Author section of a post's meta isn't displaying properly and is displaying [1] in superscript instead:

The text exists in the HTML, but due to CSS associated with the class ".fn" it doesn't appear properly:

Steps to reproduce

1 - Activate Lovecraft theme 2 - View a published post

What you expected to happen

Post meta should display the author's name text

What actually happened

Post meta's author text isn't displayed, but exists in HTML

Browser

Google Chrome/Chromium

Context

zen-6508522 tested on own test sites

Platform (Simple, Atomic, or both?)

Simple sites

Other notes

Twenty Fourteen also displays this issue.

Reproducibility

Consistent

Severity

None

Available workarounds?

CSS

Workaround details

.author.vcard>.fn { font-size: 1em; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2; } .author.vcard>.fn::after { display: none; }

[pak-cia]

some additional testing so far... it seems to be affecting Classic themes

[pak-cia]

+1 - zen-6509508 theme is Nikau (Premium, Retired) classic theme

[Neha93517]

+2 zen-6508850

• The user is experiencing an issue across multiple blogs where commenters' names are showing up as [1] instead of the correct names.
• Couldn't see the issue at their blog, waiting for the user's screenshot.

zen-6509496

Site: https://hadominique75.wordpress.com/ theme used: Chunk - Retired theme. User shared a screenshot: <img width="791" alt="utf-8''Capture d’écran 2023-07-07 à 08 52 35" src="https://github.com/Automattic/themes/assets/54591499/4b3c1b18-4a1b-4655-afa1-20f5c8b38fd7"

Tested on the test site: Site: https://neha93517.wordpress.com/ Theme: twenty fourteen

[afzalpansuvi]

Same issue here: 6508520-Zen
Theme: Hemingway Rewritten Shared CSS

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Support References

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• [ ] 6508520-zen
• [ ] 6508852-zen
• [ ] 6509224-zen
• [ ] 6510312-zen
• [ ] 6491381-zen
• [ ] 6511252-zen

[cardehngeh]

Same issue: 6509596 - zen Theme: Hever Plan : Premium. Sharing CSS code

[nazilya06]

Same issue here: 6508852-Zen Theme: Dyad 2 The user is on a Personal plan, no workaround is provided

[nazilya06]

6509224-Zen

[afzalpansuvi]

6510312-Zen Theme: Maxwell (Premium, Retired)

[emmanuelmezie]

Same issue here: 6491381-Zen Theme: Twenty Ten (Free, Retired) The user is on a Personal plan, no workaround is provided

[christianguerrag]

Reported here 6511252-zen although it seems that the problem is not there anymore.