Implemented spaces in author name breaks author page

[dethfire]

spaces in author names seems to break the author link

https/www.physicsforums.com/insights/author/rude man/
https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/misconceiving-mutual-inductance-coefficients/

 

[dethfire]

latest version turns it into
https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/author/rudeman/

 

[LPH]

I have not looked at this code yet to see what is happening. It is probably something in the class-xenword-author-link.php file that needs a way to identify spaces.

 

[dethfire]

Anyway to make this a priority? It's causing a lot of 404s.

 

[dethfire]

author pages also don't seem to take the avatar
https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/author/ZapperZ/

 

[Gracie]

@LPH The avatar is a problem on author pages: uploaded or gravatar. Simply use /author/username to confirm that the default is loaded. I did not look at the theme to see the code.

 

[dethfire]

Any update on this? I have several author links breaking.

 

[Gracie]

Can you manually put in a %20 between the first and last name (to fill the space) and see if that works?

 

[Gracie]

Also - take a look at this link and see if using this works:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-page-not-working-when-username-has-space

 

[dethfire]

You can see here that there is actually no space, but it still fails and "Display name publicly as" has a space in it.
https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/author/KennyFelder/

I think Xenword breaks when it sees this

 

[Gracie]

In the XenWord control panel -- how do you have the author settings right now? Look under "User Permissions" -- are these set to on or off ? What happens when you change these?

This site rolls to the XenForo profile --

In your example, is the XenForo username KennyFelder or Kenny Felder (with space)?

 

[dethfire]

There is a space in his username in XF. I think wordpress now removes it and Xenword is trying to connect using without a space?

For author settings:

On
On
On
Off
Off

 

[dethfire]

This does not work either

https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/author/Dr.%20Courtney/

 

[dethfire]

hmmm I am very confused.

This username will compress and work. Notice the space in the username and click the author link.
https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/false-dichotomy-theorist-experimentalist/

However, this author also has a space, will compress, but not work.
https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/brachistochrone-subway/

 

[Gracie]

For now, can you change the settings so that the author is directed to the XenForo profile?

LPH said he was wanting to look at the code for creating the link tomorrow.

 

[dethfire]

Wordpress does not allow spaces in URL so if a forum username has a space, this will seem to always break

 

[Gracie]

The %20 should have done the trick -- but -- we use the author redirect to XenForo.

@LPH --

 

[dethfire]

The %20 should have done the trick -- but -- we use the author redirect to XenForo.

@LPH --

Where exactly would you put that %20 because the URLs are generated using the username and that can't be changed.

 

[dethfire]

@LPH any news on this? This is my main problem.

 

[LPH]

@LPH any news on this? This is my main problem.

It's on the list but the showstopper is the avatars and thread link when XF threads are deleted.