Automattic / Automattic/co-authors-plus

Incorrect user post count when guest account is not linked

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#780 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub
priority: medium status: needs investigation type: bug
Dominant language
PHP
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Description

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Create a guest author account (guest-780)
2. Check post count for admin and guest author
3. Create one post (test-post-780) as guest author and remove admin as co-author
4. Check post count for admin and guest author

**Note**

The created post will increase the post count of the user that published the post on behalf of the guest author.

**Expected behaviour**

✅ Admin: 0 posts
✅ Guest: 1 post

**Current behaviour**

❌ Admin: 1 post
✅ Guest: 1 post

Related issue

#776

Contributor guide

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Research direction

Reproduce the issue using the guest author account, admin, and test post described in the steps, then compare the post counts for both users. Read related issue #776 for context and trace how publishing on behalf of an unlinked guest author assigns the count. Done means the admin remains at 0 posts while the guest author has 1.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
php
Domain
backend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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