Can you give me (super) admin and (s)ftp access so I can take a look?
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>>> I have no idea where you got this from: 'empty article [id=$id]'. Where is that given as an example?
Go to the AA behaviour options. When putting the cursor to the input-field (this is at first empty and shows "nothing") of that option, a popup window whith three entries is diplayed. You can select
... mh, very interesting. But is strange to me, that the content of the popup has the focus of an empty field.
Anyway, the input is only used as a string and it is displayed instead of the AA-syntax.
Articles Anywhere seems to be working as it should.
You are trying to output the text of the article with ID 1943.
However, that article is unpublished. So Articles Anywhere will not show it.
If you want Articles Anywhere to also show unpublished articles, you should tell it to ignore the publish state. You can switch on the "Ignore Publish State" in the Articles Anywhere system plugin settings.