Community CB Author bot plugin stoped working

Thank you Krileon...
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Thank you.

Have reviewed your install. All of your articles have aliases configured. It won't override the author behavior if an alias has been set. Will add parameters to ignore existing alias to optionally allow for previous behavior where it'd override the author regardless of alias being set.

Ok, I've implemented a parameter to completely override author alias and a parameter to force linking, but respect author alias. I've installed the updated plugin for you and confirmed working where possible. You've several articles that have no owner and by that I mean "Created By" under the "Publishing" tab of an article is empty and in those cases this won't work.

It however doesn't work on category lists. Will review adding support for that as well. That requires a different event or context check since that's a different view from article.

Ok, for category lists it requires "Link to Author's Contact Page" to be set to "Yes". I've already turned this on for you, but again you'll notice some aren't linked due to the article having no owner. The override in CB Author Bot doesn't appear to be respected so there's nothing much I can do there beyond turn that parameter on.

Thank you for your kind help Krileon!

Ok, I've implemented a parameter to completely override author alias and a parameter to force linking, but respect author alias.

Yes it works now... but it was working for more than 15 years before and it stopped without any changes from my side. Did something change in Joomla that made the plugin stop working?

I've installed the updated plugin for you and confirmed working where possible. You've several articles that have no owner and by that I mean "Created By" under the "Publishing" tab of an article is empty and in those cases this won't work.

This is true and acceptable. If no profile exists, for example if the article was submitted by a guest user, then there is no link to the profile. As before... this is how it was for many years.

It however doesn't work on category lists. Will review adding support for that as well. That requires a different event or context check since that's a different view from article.

Yes please!

Thank you for everything.
 

Yes it works now... but it was working for more than 15 years before and it stopped without any changes from my side. Did something change in Joomla that made the plugin stop working?

Yes and No, previously the plugin was forcing ->author and ->created_by_alias to an HTML output of the profile name. This was a problem as it breaks SEO metadata (e.g. the header author tag) as then the metadata would have HTML in it and anything else accessing ->author or ->created_by_alias. The metadata issue was a result of a change in Joomla, but it frankly was our fault as we weren't inserting the author override in the cleanest manner. So we redesigned the plugin to more cleanly work with Joomla's structure to ensure the author is being replaced in a safe manner.