[Bug] CC post author has no avatar

[xolotl]

Description

Creative Commons, the generic organizational author on the CC website, which is credited as the author of organizational posts, has no avatar.

Reproduction

1. Visit a post authored by creative-commons (eg, https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/30/press-release-new-four-year-4-million-open-climate-campaign/)
2. See lack of avatar.

Expectation

The Creative Commons author should have the basic CC logo as an avatar.

Screenshots

Environment

Not applicable.

Additional context

• The Creative Commons author is not a regular WP user, but is supplied as a "guest author" by the Co-Authors Plus plugin. An update to this plugin may address this bug.
• Posts try to supply a WP Gravatar for authors and guest authors often don't have Gravatars (perhaps depending on if guest authors have emails — there is not Gravatar for CC as an organization).

Resolution

• I would be interested in resolving this bug.

[xolotl]

I attempted to address this by adding an email address to the CC guest user for which there is a gravitar (communications@creativecommons.org), but still no avatar is showing on CC posts.

[xolotl]

Here's a good example post that includes both a regular WP user as an author (Jennryn Wetzler) and a guest user (Jonathan Poritz). The guest users don't seem to have the right gravatar img src for their avatars.

[possumbilities]

@xolotl there's a chance that the simple-local-avatars plugin is why the Gravatar route is failing, and may be the cause of it failing in general since these two plugins have overlapping functionality changes.

[xolotl]

@possumbilities yes, hm... There is also a field in on guest authors specifically for avatars and the image their appears on their profile page, but not in their "byline" on posts. I see there is the Creative Commons Author plugin that may be in play also. As both Simple Local Avatars and Co-Authors Plus have updates, there might also be new behaviors if all was updated. A bit of a knot to untangle...

[TimidRobot]

I recommend this issue be addressed in the new/pending website and not the current/legacy website.

[xolotl]

I agree that this can wait for the new site.

[xolotl]

In a moment of desperate inspiration, I created a new regular WP user for CC and changed authorship of all CC posts on the blog to that new user and now the avatar shows up, possibly because no extra WP plugins are involved. The previous creative-commons guest author now has no posts and could probably be deleted, but we can leave that clean up for the launch of the revised site.

Example Post: