[Support request] Loop Start twice for author pages?

[K]

Hi,

I was having an issue with one of my plugins (ad inserter pro) on Author archives, and upon debugging, the developer said

“Your theme call hook loop_start for author pages two times.
Because of this poition Before post appears twice:”

Is this a bug?

Thanks.

[Tom]

Hi there,

We don’t use the loop_start hook anywhere in the theme.

Our author archives use the archives.php file found here: https://github.com/tomusborne/generatepress/blob/2.3.2/archive.php

Perhaps the developer can offer more details so we can look into it further?

[K]

Hi Tom,

Unfortunately, they didn’t give a detailed response:

Maybe they don’t use it directly but the theme very likely calls some WP function (directly or indirectly) that uses it:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/loop_start/
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/the_post/

You can use debugging function Show positions to see where the hooks are called:
https://adinserter.pro/documentation/automatic-insertion
https://adinserter.pro/documentation/debugging

Tom, let me know if you want access to my staging site where you can view the actual issue. They did provide me with a workaround, so it’s not important unless you want to get to the bottom of it.

Thanks.

[Tom]

Well, the theme does have a query on the author archives. Without it, our author archives would be empty.

What exactly is that plugin requiring on the theme side of things? Are there specific instructions?

[K]

Hi Tom,

No specific theme requirements mentioned. They do have a ton of documentation: https://adinserter.pro/documentation.

For me, I’m good as the plugin author already provided a workaround.

But if you do want to examine this issue further, the author is quite responsive and you should be able to contact him from the same page above.

Thanks!

[Tom]

Sounds good – I’ll take a look around.

Thanks!

[Author]

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