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Reply To: Create fake paged author pages when there are no posts, by Beee

WOOPTIE F***ING DOO !!! It works !!!

As I suspected it was indeed the author name which was too ‘limited’ to include all in the query.

This is the final result in pre-get-posts. It might look a bit different than you supplied it but tweaked/DRY-ed it a bit as well to eliminate other queries.

function alter_query_for_author_mentioned_subpages( $query ) {
if ( ! is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() && is_author() ) {

$subpage = get_query_var( 'subpage' );
$author_name = get_query_var( 'author_name' );

if ( ( 'mentioned' === $subpage ) ) {
$ppp = 18; // @TODO: get from setting
$user_id = get_user_by( 'slug', $author_name )->ID;
$mentioned_posts = idf_get_user_mentions( $user_id );

$query->set( 'posts_per_page', $ppp );

if ( $mentioned_posts ) {

$authors = get_all_authors_ids();
$authors[] = $user_id;

$query->set( 'post__in', $mentioned_posts );

// Reset author name
$query->set( 'author_name', '' );

// Store author name in fake_author_name query var
$query->set( 'fake_author_name', $author_name );

}

add_filter( 'the_posts', 'idf_undo_reset_author_name', 99, 2 );
}
}
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'alter_query_for_author_mentioned_subpages' );

Thanks @keesiemeijer couldn’t have fixed it without you I think.

Reply To: Create fake paged author pages when there are no posts