Hey Jordan,

Thanks for the input on this. I have not tried the author alias with the content plugin yet but I believe this could be a bug and we'll try to get this fixed in 2.1. Is this issue critical for you? If it is, will provide you with a patch when it's ready.

Thanks Mark.

Not critical. I only label the posts this way because that is the license type that I have. I hope it doesn't set of an alarm at the Stackideas mother ship

J

Ah no problem Jordan. Understood, and have already logged this issue into our issue tracker.

Hey Jordan,

Could you download the attached file and upload it into /plugins/content/easysocial/ and see if it fixes the issue?

Thanks Mark,

That worked, but only if the author doesn't have a com_contact entry linked to their nam/email. In that case, the alias links to the com_contact for that user (not to the EasySocial of the author like it did before). So if I delete the com_contact for that user, then it works as expected - no link for the author alias.

Hey Jordan,

I still have a little bit confuse here, perhaps you can check my following scenario and see whether i understand this correctly?

Contact Exist
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1. Set created alias from the article - Show the author link
2. NOT set created alias from the article - Show the author link

Contact NOT Exist
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1. Set created alias from the article - Not show the author link
2. NOT set created alias from the article - Show the author link

If yes, can you try download my attached file and replace to the same file location and see whether show correctly now?

Hey Jordan,

I already consult with Mark regarding this, can you try download my latest fix attachment and see how it goes?

Hi Arlex,

Unfortunately, your latest fix does not work.

If author alias is used but the actual author has com_contact and the author link is set to yes, then the author link set by the EasySocial plugin will now be to the original author's EasySocial profile. If I unpublish the com_contact, then the correct bebhaviour happens (the alias name appears but no link).

Jordan

Hey Jordan,

Hm, I was actually on Arlexs' desk earlier and when I tested it, it does generate a link to com_contact if an author alias is present and a contact is created for that particular user.

Did you try the file that he attached earlier? The one at #7

Hi Mark,

That’s correct. But in my opinion you wouldn’t want the alias name linking to another person’s profile as it would with the file at #7

Jordan

Yup, that did it!

Thanks for updating Jordan, we'll add this fix internally.