author.php duplicate info

[fmf]

I am using the author.php page from the agent theme to create individual author pages within the news theme. I had no trouble implementing this and the page worked exactly as expected until last monday when suddenly the author information began to duplicate. I had not changed the code. I have tried:

- changing showposts to 0 / 1 / 2 (i get 6x / 2x / 3x info respectively)
- posting the agent author.php file as-is (still get 2x info)

Any help would be appreciated!! BTW i am running WPMU

Example URL: http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/author/admin/

thanks in advance,
Courtney

p.s. i posted this over at the agent board a week ago but didnt get a response - thought it might be better over here

[adew]

Hi,

Can you post the page template you're using?

[fmf]

Here is the code of the modified page. The duplication also happened when i used the agent author.php file without modifications. Thank you for looking.

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="content">

	<div id="contentleft">
	
		<div class="post">
	
		<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/breadcrumb.php");?>
			
			<div class="postarea">
        	<?php $recent = new WP_Query('showposts=1'); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
                
			<h3><?php _e('Ms. Blogger', 'studiopress'); ?></h3>
		
				<?php if(isset($_GET['author_name'])) :
					$curauth = get_userdatabylogin($author_name);
					else :
					$curauth = get_userdata(intval($author));
					endif; 
				?>
		   
                <div class="authorbio">
                    <p><?php if(file_exists(TEMPLATEPATH.'/images/team/'.$curauth->ID.'.jpg')) : ?>
                    <img class="thumb" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/team/<?php echo $curauth->ID; ?>.jpg" alt="<?php echo $curauth->display_name; ?>" title="<?php echo $curauth->display_name; ?>" />
                    <?php endif; ?>
                    <b><?php echo $curauth->display_name; ?></b><br />
                    <?php echo $curauth->description; ?></p>
                    <p></p>
                    <p><strong><?php _e('Website: ', 'studiopress'); ?></strong><a href="<?php echo $curauth->user_url; ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo $curauth->user_url; ?></a> <br />
                    <strong><?php _e('Twitter: ', 'studiopress'); ?></strong><a href="<?php _e('http://twitter.com/', 'studiopress'); ?><?php echo $curauth->twitter; ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo $curauth->twitter; ?></a></p>
                </div>
                
                <div class="clear"></div>
                
                <?php endwhile; ?>
            <div class="authorposts">
			<h3><?php echo $curauth->display_name; ?><?php _e('\'s Posts', 'studiopress'); ?></h3>
            
			<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
			<?php if( get_post_meta($post->ID, "thumb", true) ): ?>
			<?php $theImageSrc = get_image_path(); ?> 
			<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><img class="thumb" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/tools/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo $theImageSrc; ?>&amp;h=<?php echo get_theme_mod('archive_thumb_height'); ?>&amp;w=<?php echo get_theme_mod('archive_thumb_width'); ?>&amp;zc=1" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>	
			<?php else: ?>
			<?php endif; ?>	
                            
			<h4><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
			
			<div class="date">
				<p><span class="time"><?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?></span> <?php _e("by", 'studiopress'); ?> <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> &middot; <span class="icomment"><a rel="nofollow" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>#respond"><?php comments_number(__('Leave a Comment', 'studiopress'), __('1 Comment', 'studiopress'), __('% Comments', 'studiopress')); ?></a></span>&nbsp;<?php edit_post_link(__('(Edit)', 'studiopress'), '', ''); ?></p> 
			</div>
		
			<?php the_excerpt();?>
            
            <div class="clear"></div>
			
			<div class="postmeta2">
                <p><?php _e("Filed under", 'studiopress'); ?> <?php the_category(', ') ?> &middot; <span class="tags"><?php _e("Tagged with", 'studiopress'); ?> <?php the_tags('') ?></span></p>
            </div>
			
                
				<?php endwhile; ?>
                
               	<?php endif; ?>
			
            <p><?php posts_nav_link(' — ', __('&laquo; Previous Page', 'studiopress'), __('Next Page &raquo;', 'studiopress')); ?></p>
            			
		</div>
			
		</div>
		</div>		
	</div>
	
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
		
</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

[adew]

I tried using your file on a test site, and couldn't recreate the duplication.

Let's try a couple of things. First,comment out this:

PHP Code:

<?php $recent = new WP_Query('showposts=1'); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>

ie like this:

PHP Code:

<?php // $recent = new WP_Query('showposts=1'); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>

and do the same with this:

PHP Code:

<?php endwhile; ?>

ie this:

PHP Code:

<?php // endwhile; ?>

just above the authorposts div.

[fmf]

Ok -- I am uploading now .... OMG it worked!

Thank you Thank you! Any idea why this happened? I am still mystified as it randomly presented itself (the duplicates) one day without any code changes.

Thank you again!