Author field not honouring Auto Count setting

Trevor

#223144

The count and Auto Count does not include the Author field, as you see from the note you quote.

For now, the only way around this is to have a custom field in the posts for Author and use that instead.

Anonymous

#223172

Thanks Trevor,
Hopefully it’ll get implemented in the future.

For anyone else facing this problem, I ended up creating a custom field as Trevor mentioned, setting it to hidden, then using a save action to add the author name to that field. (I needed this to be automatic, I didn’t want to rely on people having to tell the system who they are when adding posts)

Here’s code that saves Author display name to a custom field if anyones interested:

// save Author to author 
function event_author_on_save( $post_id ) {
  $post_type = 'event'; //custom post type - change to post if you're just working with posts

  //Check if we are saving correct post type
  if( get_post_type( $post_id ) != $post_type)
    return;

  //Check it's not an auto save routine
  if( defined('DOING_AUTOSAVE') && DOING_AUTOSAVE ) 
    return;
  
  // get the author ID of the post
  $author_id = get_post_field ('post_author', $post_id);
  // get the display name of that author
  $author = get_the_author_meta( 'display_name' , $author_id );

  // update the custom field value 
  update_field( 'acf_event_author', $author, $post_id );
}
add_action('save_post', 'event_author_on_save');

Trevor

#223174

Thanks for sharing. I will close this thread for now.

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