Thanks to the CoPress Google Group and @nacin, my life in WordPress is that much easier. By about 100%. Let me explain.
The drop down menu on the Export page (in 2.9.1. and before) is an absolute mess. It does not list authors in alphabetical order. It lists them in the order they appear in the database. We have 10 years of archives to go through - that equates to a lot of authors! (Plus countless duplicates, thanks to the way College Publisher works.)
Quickly after posting my concern asking how to fix the $authors array, Andrew came up with a superb solution. You can find it on the WordPress Trac and make the modification yourself. This change will make it into WordPress 3.0. It also looks like the database query has been cleaned up quite a bit from the original code.
Many thanks to Andrew and his help. It has made the absolutely painstakingly headache-inducing task of going through our old College Publisher archives a little bit easier at the end of the day.
The drop down menu on the Export page (in 2.9.1. and before) is an absolute mess. It does not list authors in alphabetical order. It lists them in the order they appear in the database. We have 10 years of archives to go through - that equates to a lot of authors! (Plus countless duplicates, thanks to the way College Publisher works.)
Quickly after posting my concern asking how to fix the $authors array, Andrew came up with a superb solution. You can find it on the WordPress Trac and make the modification yourself. This change will make it into WordPress 3.0. It also looks like the database query has been cleaned up quite a bit from the original code.
Many thanks to Andrew and his help. It has made the absolutely painstakingly headache-inducing task of going through our old College Publisher archives a little bit easier at the end of the day.
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