feat(block-theme): move coauthors RSS function to the Newspack Plugin

[laurelfulford]

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Changes proposed in this Pull Request:

This PR is a companion to Automattic/newspack-plugin#4629; they should be tested together.

Closes NPPD-1345

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1. Follow the steps in feat(block-theme): move co-authors RSS feed code to the Newspack Plugin newspack-plugin#4629.

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Pull request overview

This PR removes the theme-level implementation that injected Co-Authors Plus author lists into RSS/feeds, with the intent that this responsibility now lives in the Newspack Plugin.

Changes:

• Removed the newspack_coauthors_in_rss() filter callback.
• Removed the add_filter( 'the_author', ... ) hook that altered feed author output.

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[adekbadek]

Clean removal. One note: this should be merged simultaneously with (or after) Automattic/newspack-plugin#4629 to avoid a window where co-author RSS support is missing entirely.

[laurelfulford]

Thanks @adekbadek! I'll hold off merging this one 'til the Newspack Plugin one is finalized and merged 🙂

[laurelfulford]

The Newspack Plugin version of this PR has been merged, so getting this one taken care of too 🙂

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