Syndicate Author data about syndication HOT 8 CLOSED

Author creation is out of scope for v1 and v2 of the plugin. The syn_pull_new_post filter can be used to map syndicated content authors to current site authors or to create new authors. It would be a good candidate as an add-on feature plugin for Syndication.

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We can (maybe) do this for push syndication if author creation is turned on. If it's not, there's not much we can do here.

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Or if the author already exists on the child site(s), which was the use case in which this came up. Can't the author ID/user be pushed out as well?

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We can't depend on the user ID to be the same across sites.

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joshbetz How is author creation turned on or off? I don't see that setting anywhere.

When you say user id, is that the id number or user_login?

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We've been talking about this issue for a year or more with Automattic and are trying to contribute internal resources to the issue, if it's the same issue we've been seeing.

I'm still not clear on what turns on or off "user creation."

It does seem, however, that a variation of the Bulk Administration plugin functionality could serve up a dashboard that allows for a type of "synching" to verify the user exists between sites. If it's identified as properly acknowledged and synched then it will syndicate under that author name if pushed/pulled.

A soft safeguard could be put in place to indicate when you're about to syndicate a story whether or not the author is "new" (or unsynched).

Does this seem like a reasonable approach?

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@drapetomaniac For example, we can't add users to sites on WordPress.com via Syndication.

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@joshbetz But they can be replicated via Bulk Administration at the multi-site level, correct?

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