Multiuser site

  • Resolved galderna

    (@galderna)


    5 years, 9 months ago

    Hello, Sayan

    I’ve been trying version v1.4.8 of WP Last Modified Info plugin for a multiuser site.

    Both All Pages and All Post screens show one “Author” column and another “Last Modified” column.

    Whenever a page or a post is updated and its author changed, the name from the “Author” column for that page or post changes accordingly, which is the expected behavior.

    On the other hand, the author name from the “Last Modified” column remains always the same, as if referring to the original author, which is nice.

    Now, I see two or three problems here:

    1. An ambiguity: The text from the “Last Modified” column reads, for example, “February 17, 2019 @ 2:37 pm by John”. The date reports certainly the last modification date, but the name is supposedly the original author’s name, not the updater’s one. I therefore suggest the following info instead: “February 17, 2019 @ 2:37 pm. Original author: John”. Or it could also be “Previous author: John”. In this last case, the author name should also change each time a different user modifies the previous page/post.

    2. No matter who is the actual author of the post/page, all posts and pages are invariably attributed to the same user from the beginning in the “Last Modified” column, which happens to be the site-administrator.

    3. If the “Display Last Modified Author Name” plugin setting is left as “Default”, the author name never changes and, as I said before, is that of the site-administrator. If “Custom” is chosen, then the selected user name that is displayed at the frontend may differ from the actual author’s (updater’s) name of the page/post. There is no apparent connection between them both. Furthermore, when I choose a custom user name to be displayed, the same name is displayed for all the update reports of all pages and posts. This is not a suitable behavior.

    I think the plugin should directly take the Last Modified Author Name for each post/page the same as the author/updater name for each post/page, and hence the “Custom” option would become unnecessary.

    Thank you very much for your kind attention.

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  • Plugin Author Sayan Datta

    (@infosatech)

    Hi @galderna

    This plugin tested with WordPress Multisite. Let me clarify this:

    Both All Pages and All Post screens show one “Author” column and another “Last Modified” column.

    Author Column does not depend on this plugin. It is the part of core WordPress. Author Column shows the Original Author name of a post/page. You can change it from Quick edit option as well as Post Edit Screen > Author Meta Box.

    But Author Name on Last Modified column indicates the author who has just last modified post or page. Suppose you are the original author of a article and Mr. X edited that article by logging in to his account. Now Author Column shows your name and Last Modified column shows ‘by Mr. X’.

    If the “Display Last Modified Author Name” plugin setting is left as “Default”, the author name never changes and, as I said before, is that of the site-administrator.

    ‘Default’ indicates the author who has last modified a post by logging his/her account. If a post published by you, then author name and modified author name will be same, but after publication some other users of your website logging in to their account and edit your post then author name will be your name and modified author name will be that user’s name.

    If “Custom” is chosen, then the selected user name that is displayed at the frontend may differ from the actual author’s (updater’s) name of the page/post. There is no apparent connection between them both. Furthermore, when I choose a custom user name to be displayed, the same name is displayed for all the update reports of all pages and posts. This is not a suitable behavior.

    Custom option will become handy when you do not want to show original last modified author name to frontend. If you are a reader of wpbeginner, then you may noticed that they use Editorial Stuff as last modified author on Every Post. But using Custom Option, you can assign any account (may any role) as last modified user on frontend for all post.

    Thanks!

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