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Heyyyy, C4L! So, I notice the Code4Lib journal is run on WordPress, and there's this sweet wiki page <http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4Lib_Journal_WordPress_Customizations> about how it's put together. I have questions! You see, some things that seem to be working just fine for C4L aren't working for In the Library With the Lead Pipe (ITLWTLP), which is *also* an OA journal run on WordPress. We realized fairly recently that only our first author is showing up in DOAJ (and in the automatically-generated PDF, but that's a separate issue). Weirder, EBSCO's indexing is showing the author for every article as ITLWTLP, which, no. If you'd like to see the issue, here you go (we deliberately haven't fixed this one, yet, so we can demonstrate what's going on): - An article: http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/revising-academic-library-governance-handbooks/ (multiple authors) - Its DOAJ XML export: http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/revising-academic-library-governance-handbooks/feed/doaj (only shows one author) - Its DOAJ info page: https://doaj.org/article/e4db2a5dbc404089a6f915560ecedab2 (only shows one author) - I can't link you to EBSCO, because I am not formally affiliated with any libraries that have it, but I trust you can find it, if you are. Compare to C4L: - An article: *http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10709 <http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10709>* (multiple authors) - Its DOAJ info page: https://doaj.org/article/396ed606919f4b5a9269e0b7689abf70 (multiple authors!) - Same deal w/ EBSCO, but I'm told it works fine for C4L. I notice DOAJ Export is listed on the wiki page. Does C4L still use that? If so, how do you get it to list multiple authors? It used to, for us, but it no longer does--maybe unsurprisingly, since it hasn't been updated in years. (Although our theme is showing its age--we're working on that--we do generally keep WordPress up to date. :)) Right now, we're working around the DOAJ export issue by editing the XML by hand after exporting. It's not ideal, but it works. EBSCO... we don't know why it's doing that. From the directions for uploading, it looks to me like they try to read our PDF and harvest metadata from it? One other note: we let authors do their own posting, and we have a plugin that allows for multiple authors to be listed on each post. I know firsthand that C4L's approach is different. I believe ITLWTLP is open to going with a different approach (e.g. "the editor makes the post and puts the authors' names into the post text or a custom field") if they really have to; but the Editorial Board likes offering a convenient link to everything written by a particular author, as well as giving authors the ability to respond to comments as logged-in users. So if we can solve it while still allowing ITLWTLP to use that plugin, I think that is the preferred solution. (I'm ITLWTLP's web person, for another couple of months; I am not an editor.) That said, a big redesign is coming up, so long-term solutions that look different than previous approaches could be on the table. Anyway, if anybody's willing to help me hammer out what's not-broken with C4L, or alternately what IS broken with ITLWTLP, I'd be super grateful. Thank you! - Coral