Virtual Author Alias bug

By Polished Geek on Thursday, 18 October 2018

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I discovered a bug (or maybe oversight) in Easyblog's Virtual Author Alias setting.

Normally, Author names are linked, sending you to a page that lists all the blog posts by that author (/blog/blogger/[Author Name]). However, Virtual Author names instead link to nothing, instead having javascript:void(0);. On top of that, the link to the Author is still generated and in the page source but the link 404's, with the page itself being ungenerated. This means that a broken internal link is showing on the site to crawlers(how I actually discovered the problem), which affects our SEO score.

I'm on version 5.2.9, most recent.

Is there any way of correcting this?

Hi there,

Virtual Author names instead link to nothing, instead having javascript:void(0)

This is actually correct behavior. The real author's link will not be used in virtual author alias name.

the link to the Author is still generated and in the page source but the link 404's, with the page itself being ungenerated

The real author's link is not supposed to show on the page.

Can you provide me the url to the page so I can see these 404 links?

Raymond

Thursday, 18 October 2018 14:19

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#435191

This is the code displaying in the page source. The element isn't displaying on the page at all. The issue is not that the REAL author's link is showing, but that A link is showing in the page source that doesn't work. It is generating the link to the Virtual Author's page, but not generating the actual page. The link 404s, and is inaccessable anyways since the Virtual authors name doesn't link to it, but it's still loading that function on the page, hidden, and is being found by crawlers.



		<div class="eb-entry-author-recents">

		<h5 class="reset-heading col-cell cell-tight">Author's recent posts</h5>



				<span class="col-cell text-right">

			<a href="/blog/blogger/corissa-craddick">More posts from author</a>

		</span>

Here's the link to the source of this code, which is a Virtual Author:
https://fierceinc.com/blog/4-barriers-to-personal-and-professional-growth-and-how-to-tear-them-down

Here's an example of a non-Virtual Author, where the code is the exact same:
https://fierceinc.com/blog/why-a-self-driven-approach-matters-for-employee-development-and-how-to-integrate-it

Polished Geek

Friday, 19 October 2018 00:28

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Hey there,

I checked the page and it looks like there is portion(author box and author's posts) of html that is hidden by css(http://take.ms/Dsuzj).

By right if you disable these settings for the entry view(http://take.ms/nd4fl), those html codes will not be generated at all. Can you try disabling these settings and see if those codes still show?

If the issue persist, can you provide us your backend and ftp access so we can investigate further?

The invalid url is a different issue here. Does this issue occur for other EasyBlog author's links? We would need your backend and ftp access to investigate this as well.

Raymond

Friday, 19 October 2018 10:38

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