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multiple authors

Multiple Authors matters only if the evidence supports a paid workflow around keeping publishing, media, and editorial handoffs consistent, not a list of isolated fixes. The current commercial thesis is: Content-heavy WordPress teams lose time when formatting, media, duplicate content, and publishing handoffs drift across sites. The entry wedge is to audit publishing workflows, detect inconsistent content operations, and package fix-ready editorial reports.

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Opportunity Summary

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Build a content publishing operations plugin for publishers, content teams, and agencies: Content-heavy WordPress teams lose time when formatting, media, duplicate content, and publishing handoffs drift across sites. The first wedge is to audit publishing workflows, detect inconsistent content operations, and package fix-ready editorial reports.

The unmet need is not the individual complaint. It is the recurring business workflow: Content-heavy WordPress teams lose time when formatting, media, duplicate content, and publishing handoffs drift across sites. Current stage: commercial watchlist.

Competitors

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Co-Authors Plus 20.0K installs · 3.5
weak incumbent
-100.0%momentum 59.9weakness 22/16pain/praise

Pain still appears around bugs, compatibility despite praise for reliable, quality.

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Byline 200 installs · 5.0
praise owner
-100.0%momentum 62.3weakness 12/8pain/praise

Pain still appears around compatibility, support despite praise for easy, value.

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Genesis Co-Authors Plus 100 installs · 5.0
praise owner
-100.0%momentum 61.3weakness 11/3pain/praise

Pain still appears around bugs, missing feature despite praise for quality, value.

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Evidence

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complaint Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function getBlocks() on bool

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function getBlocks() on bool: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans · Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function getBlocks() on bool I received the below error. complaint PHP Errors

PHP Errors: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Co-Authors Plus · PHP Errors Hello, it seems your plugin is generating errors in the PHP log. complaint Nice Plugin but has huge error

Nice Plugin but has huge error: users show bugs, support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress · Nice Plugin but has huge error I have this plugin in various websites, after last WordPress update I have critical issues on ALL sites, are you guys going to fix this? complaint Author meta data has invalid formatting

Author meta data has invalid formatting: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Byline · Author meta data has invalid formatting We like the premise behind this plug-in, particularly its attempt to provide a solution that doesn’t require modifications to the theme templates. mixed Molongui creating Tens of Thousands of Phantom Author Pages

Molongui creating Tens of Thousands of Phantom Author Pages: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress · I should also note that my Pro subscription expired some time ago, yet the legitimate author archives remained accessible — until this update. mixed Release 5 broke layout, and too many releases after 6 months of silence

Release 5 broke layout, and too many releases after 6 months of silence: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress · Release 5 broke layout, and too many releases after 6 months of silence I was really happy with the plugin and its simplicity (free version, I’m not a paying customer), but then on Jan 14 they published the new 5.0.0 version, and the box started to appear differently from what I configured. question conflict with paid membership pro

conflict with paid membership pro: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans · conflict with paid membership pro the plugin conflicts with paid membership paid which instead of creating the article preview by taking the lines from the article takes the starbox script, is it possible to resolve the conflict? complaint Starbox causes fatal error

Starbox causes fatal error: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans · Starbox causes fatal error i was trying to set up a consent management plugin I purchased and I couldn’t see the settings page. complaint Can’t delete

Can’t delete: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans · Can’t delete Still can’t delete this plugin without a ‘fatal error’ coming up want to get rid of it but can’t and I’m not computer savvy enough to delete via ftp how to I get rid of this thing? complaint Compatible with WordPress 3.6?

Compatible with WordPress 3.6?: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Genesis Co-Authors Plus · Compatible with WordPress 3.6? mixed Bug in version 3.5.3: Facebook URLs with numeric IDs or usernames get truncated

Bug in version 3.5.3: Facebook URLs with numeric IDs or usernames get truncated: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans · Bug in version 3.5.3: Facebook URLs with numeric IDs or usernames get truncated This issue is a follow-up to a previous report I submitted here: 👉 https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-field-truncates-username-ending-in-digits-e-g-7777/ At the time, I described how the plugin was removing digits at the end of Facebook usernames when saving author prof complaint Molongui generates 6K+ phantom paginated author pages

Molongui generated thousands of phantom paginated author URLs, harming crawl health and search rankings until the vendor reproduced and fixed it.

Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress · over 6,400 404 errors in Search Console tied to these phantom pages. complaint Performance Degradation & SQL Query Termination

Molongui Authorship generates huge usermeta queries that time out on large sites and slow author pages with 502/504 errors.

Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress · This causes significant slow-downs and timeout errors (502/504) on pages where the author box or author lists are rendered mixed Not ready enough for usage

Not ready enough for usage: users show bugs, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Co-Authors Plus · Not ready enough for usage After removing this plugin all my posts were broken and I had to recover site from a backup. complaint I have no idea if it works or not.

I have no idea if it works or not.: users show bugs, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Co-Authors Plus · I have no idea if it works or not. complaint Molongui Authorship causes fatal error

Updating Molongui Authorship caused a fatal error that blocked access to every backend page and recovery mode.

Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress · got a fatal error that now blocks access to every page of the site’s backend. complaint [Plugin: SP Authors] Author Links and Display Names

[Plugin: SP Authors] Author Links and Display Names: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

SP Authors · Thanks for the great plug-in. complaint [NSFW] Slam or hack?

[NSFW] Slam or hack?: users show security pain that may indicate a product gap.

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans · [NSFW] Slam or hack? complaint They might steal your money

They might steal your money: users show pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress · didn’t cancle the subscription and forgot about it after a year I was charged without any notice email or so, and when I asked for a refund (only for the renewal) a few days after, they barely answered with a “no” and didn’t even try to understand I’m not and didn’t use their plugin. complaint Critical Performance Issue

Frontend author metadata updates repeatedly invalidate Redis user cache and can crash high-traffic sites until a filter workaround is applied.

Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress · floods the Redis server with DEL and SET commands, causing CPU spikes and eventually crashing the Redis service complaint Crash in author plugin after language update

A Danish language-file update caused fatal errors in PublishPress Authors for multiple users until a workaround and unreleased fix were provided.

Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors · After update to DK language for the author plugin, I get a PHP error. complaint Website Timeout & High Load After Installing Molongui Authorship Plugin

After installing Molongui Authorship, the site experienced slow responses, Cloudflare 522 timeouts, and disrupted editorial operations.

Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress · The issue is urgent and affecting editorial operations. praise Insanely great support for a great plugin

Insanely great support for a great plugin: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress · Insanely great support for a great plugin I am using the Pro version of the plugin on a site running the Newspaper theme from TagDiv, which is essentially a badly-coded mess with a proprietary page builder that makes WP Bakery look good by comparison. complaint Matomo Analytics

The user reports a known conflict where PublishPress Authors can crash Matomo reports and prefers not to switch analytics tools.

Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors · one of them crashes when I try to run a report on Matomo neutral Received weird email about plugin causing issues

Received weird email about plugin causing issues: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans · Received weird email about plugin causing issues Hi, We recently received a weird email about the Starbox plugin causing technical issues to our site. praise It’s all about the support

It’s all about the support: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors · It’s all about the support In the WordPress ecosystem, there are thousands of plugins. neutral PHP Error

PHP Error: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Co-Authors Plus · PHP Error Hello, our site is crashing due to an error related to your plugin. complaint No Support – Not compatible with WPML

No Support – Not compatible with WPML: users show compatibility, missing feature, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Co-Authors Plus · No Support – Not compatible with WPML No support at all , also it doesn’t work with wpml No support at all , also it doesn’t work with wpml After installing, go to users and click organized authors. complaint Broke author post counts

Broke author post counts: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors · Broke author post counts Installed on a site with 8,800 posts by a couple of dozen authors (over the years). complaint Plugins breaks forms of other plugins in WP-ADMIN

Plugins breaks forms of other plugins in WP-ADMIN: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans · Plugins breaks forms of other plugins in WP-ADMIN Hi, your plugin breaks another plugin that runs in admin under /wp-admin/tools.php. complaint No Guest Avatars with Genesis 2 and Minimum Pro

No Guest Avatars with Genesis 2 and Minimum Pro: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Genesis Co-Authors Plus · No Guest Avatars with Genesis 2 and Minimum Pro Is there any documentation for getting this plugin to support co-author/guest author featured images as avatars in the author boxes? complaint How can I upload the image for different bylines

How can I upload the image for different bylines: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Byline · https://wordpress.org/plugins/byline/ This could probably be achieved with some advanced theme code and one of the following plugins to associate images with taxonomies: http://wordpress.org/plugins/taxonomy-images/ http://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/ A less ideal solution would be to use HTML markup in the description field of the byline, t complaint Author Box not displayed with v1.2

Author Box not displayed with v1.2: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Genesis Co-Authors Plus · Author Box not displayed with v1.2 But I figured out why 🙂 If you’re using Genesis 2.0, but also using a theme that doesn’t have HTML5 enabled, the author box for guest authors won’t display. complaint Author box on posts and archive pages

Author box on posts and archive pages: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Genesis Co-Authors Plus · I’m building with the Genesis child theme Minimum Pro 3.0.1 and I can’t for the life of me get any of the following to work: replace Gravatar with Featured Image (in the author box on posts) – the anonymous grey image appears instead display the author archive page. complaint Author byline not linking to bio page

Author byline not linking to bio page: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Byline · Co-authors was causing me all sorts of issues, and this plugin made things so much easier to work with. complaint Remove ‘cap-‘ from slug/url

Remove ‘cap-‘ from slug/url: users show compatibility, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Co-Authors Plus · I’ve just installed a fresh version of CAP onto a test site and the guest authors don’t have such as a prefix. complaint How to disable Starbox on specific posts, pages, woocommerce

How to disable Starbox on specific posts, pages, woocommerce: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans · How to disable Starbox on specific posts, pages, woocommerce Hello, first thank you so much for this great plugin. complaint Author Archive og:title conflict with Yoast SEO, multiple author names

Author Archive og:title conflict with Yoast SEO, multiple author names: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Co-Authors Plus · Author Archive og:title conflict with Yoast SEO, multiple author names Hi all, I just want to say firstly your plugin is amazing and has worked pretty well for a long time now. complaint How to display Byline term descriptions as author biographies.

How to display Byline term descriptions as author biographies.: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Byline · As discussed in this thread , here is Matt’s (corrected) code for displaying byline descriptions in a list below a post: <?php $terms = get_the_terms($post->ID, 'byline'); $count = count($terms); if ( $count > 0 ){ echo "<ul>"; foreach ( $terms as $term ) { echo "<h6>About " . mixed PHP Warning: Attempt to read property “ID”

PHP Warning: Attempt to read property “ID”: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans · PHP Warning: Attempt to read property “ID” Since installing Starbox plugin, the plugin has been consistently throwing this error: [07-May-2024 22:33:37 UTC] PHP Warning: Attempt to read property “ID” on null in /home/refinedr/public_html/wp-content/plugins/starbox/controllers/Frontend.php on line 516 Are you able to tell me how to clear this error?