News Block shows WordPress users and CoAuthors as authors on posts

[knice]

As part of the news center migration, we decided that we will handle WordPress users and post authors separately. WordPress users, who can login and visit the WordPress dashboard, are not displayed anywhere on the site. Post authors, guest authors, etc., will be managed using the CoAuthors+ plugin.

Currently, the news syndication block, which is available as of v1.7.x of this plugin, combines and displays WordPress users and CoAuthors in the block output. We need to change this logic to:

If a CoAuthor isn't assigned, display the Public Affairs CoAuthor (not the Public Affairs WordPress user) as the author.

ucsc-custom-functionality/src/Components/News_Block_Controller.php

Lines 153 to 159 in 60449e1

	protected function get_authors(array $item): array {
	if ( empty( $item['author'] ) && empty( $item['coauthors'] ) ) {
	return [];
	}
	$authors = [];

[knice]

CoAuthor's names and slugs in the DB are arbitrary and often incorrect. Example: Allison. We need to download the CoAuthors information from the database and update the name and slug fields so they make sense.

Secondarily, Jason is updating the plugin to the following specification:

1. Check for guest authors on each post, display the name of each one.
2. If there are no guest authors, list the pio user (11) as the author.