Exclude categories doesn't work fine with 'author field' count

Anonymous

#31136

Hi Ross

I have a category excluded in ‘tags, categories and taxonomy terms’.

Then in my Seach Form I have an ‘Author field’ with display count. This count is not correct because is included my excluded caterogy.

Ross Moderator

#31220

Hey Jose

Unfortunately Auto Count has not yet been integrated with the Author field – if you see the note next to Auto Count, it says it is used for “taxonomy and post meta (choice) fields”

I plan on extending this to all field types but right now do not have a timeline on this.

Thanks

Anonymous

#31248

Ok, I’ve disabled ‘Display count’. The problem is that authors with 0 posts (using exclude categories) are still shown in author form. Then when I make click in this author ‘no results’ is shown.

Ross Moderator

#31286

Hi Jose

The whole showing/hiding of fields is based on this autocount value being a 0 or not.

Therefor this is the experience you get.

Auto count was only released in 2.0, and since then I’ve been planning on rolling it out to a few other field types (you’ll notice the Post Types field also has the same issue).

I’m afraid thats just the way it works currently.

You could try placing this field higher in your form so author selection is made before the other fields, decreasing likelihood of getting no results.

Thats your best bet for now.

Thanks

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