Page creator blank

**stained** · February 11, 2022

There's probably a very simple answer to this but I when I create pages on my site the line "Page created by" is blank where my username should appear. Contributor usernames are however always shown. Is there a way that I can retrospectively add my username as the creator and ensure that it appears on future pages?

**pegasus** · February 15, 2022

This may be an issue with phrases showing when they are not supposed to. For the affected pages, were you the only user to ever edit the page? If another user edits the page and becomes the "last edited by" user shown, is the "created by" information still blank?

**stained** · February 18, 2022

Hi,

All of my articles pages have the same problem but here is an example from the footer of a page created by me, edited once by a different member and subsequently edited/updated exclusively by me:

Created by on 7th November 2012
Last updated by on 15th May 2021

Contributors: SomeMember

On pages where I was the creator and sole contributor/editor I see this:

Created by on 19th November 2012
Last updated by on 26th August 2021

**pegasus** · February 18, 2022

Based on the output I am seeing, it is possible that the username field in the database could be blank, although I am not sure why the creator/updater links point to the correct profile in that case.

In your database, please try the following query:

Code:

SELECT * FROM vw_page
WHERE creatorid > 0 AND
creatorname = ''
ORDER BY dateline DESC

If there are recent results, then that is a problem.

Otherwise, the only thing I can think of right now without investigating your forum more closely is that your forum might have a plugin using hook fetch_musername that is setting a blank value to musername.

**stained** · February 19, 2022

Thank you.

I ran that query and the result was:

Results: 0 (0.0003s), Page 1 of 0

I have some additional issues including the following and I suspect that something went wrong during a past upgrade (my fault) because the wiki is definitely not working as you intended:

file uploads always fail
page creation, page edits are not reflected in vbulletin's "What's New". This is a long-term issue though and not related to my current vaultwiki version.
Vault's "Recent activity" widget defaults to "Entire Wiki" but never shows any activity even if there has been.

Shall I start a ticket?

**pegasus** · February 19, 2022

Yes, if there are any database entries missing, I will need to attempt to regenerate them manually.

**stained** · February 20, 2022

Many thanks. Ticket submitted.

**pegasus** · February 20, 2022

The usernames that were missing were flagged by the forum as being banned users. This could be the case of unintentionally repurposing a banned group for wiki editors (which could get messy to fix, since some users in there might truly be banned), users not realizing they were banned, or creating a new usergroup for wiki editors and just forgetting to mark it as a not-banned group.

On our part, we can do a better job of how to display these lines when the users are banned. In that case, the lines should be hidden. You can still see banned creators/editors on the history tab, so they can still be blamed for their contributions, but banned users are not "recognized" for their contributions on the front-facing page.

**stained** · February 21, 2022

Many thanks P. That issue is resolved now.

**stained** · February 22, 2022

The attachment upload issue is also resolved. It only seemed to happen in Firefox. I switched to Chrome and the uploads worked every time so I must have some incorrect setting in my Firefox.