Last updated author name is not refreshed in 2.9.2

[misty9]

I've posted the question at Wordpress forum, but there have been no replies.

Two of the users on my blog both have administrator's privileges. A page is created by USER1, after USER2 had edited and saved the changes, the Last Update field still shows USER1 has last updated the page. Is it by design or something you can help me tweak it? Thanks.

[scribu]

See #12736.

[scribu]

Oups, I meant #12763.

[misty9]

Reopening the bug as per suggestion of mrmist made in bug ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12763#comment:23.

"I'm unable to reproduce this new issue. At the very least I'd suggest that this be taken up as a new ticket, because the originally posted issue is fixed. More likely this belongs in the forums, it's probably a plugin issue."

I have entered a question on the forum, but no one seems to have the answer. ​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-last-updated-author-name-is-not-refreshed?
replies=3#post-1625097.

Issue: The Last Updated remains the creator of the page rather than the updator Note: The existing page was created a couple years ago by Admin01 and it's been updated by Admin02.

Here are the steps to reproduce the issue that I have encountered in WP 2.9.2 and 3.0.1

1. Create a PAGE (not a post) named TEST as Admin01 2. Edit the PAGE TEST as Admin02 and press the Update button to save the PAGE 3. Refresh the TEST URL and it still says Admin01 has updated the PAGE:

"Last updated: August 2, 2010 by Admin01"

Let me know if you need anything else from me. Thanks.

[mrmist]

Potentially some kind of browser cache issue? What happens if you view in another browser?

[nacin]

Followed your steps to reproduce and it works for me. the _edit_last and _edit_lock postmeta values were updated to accurately reflect the state of the page at any given time.

[misty9]

Replying to mrmist:

Potentially some kind of browser cache issue? What happens if you view in another browser?

I have tested it with Chrome and Firfox which both show the creator of the PAGE instead of the updater.

[misty9]

Replying to nacin:

Followed your steps to reproduce and it works for me. the _edit_last and _edit_lock postmeta values were updated to accurately reflect the state of the page at any given time.

Thanks. Hmmm, I supposed that you did create A PAGE rather than a POST? I wonder if there are any settings can be tweaked in Wordpress Site Admin.

[misty9]

I am not sure if the following information is relevant to my issue. Here is the line that I've found in my PAGE.php:

<span class=""><?php post_updated('F j, Y'); ?> by <?php the_author() ?></span>&nbsp;

Where the post_updated is a plugin that I have on my blog.
​http://guff.szub.net/2005/02/22/post-updated/.

Thanks.

[mrmist]

Ahh, I thought you were referring to the actual status line shown in the editor, I believe you need to use get_the_modified_author() if you want to show the last editor in your theme.

On that basis, recommend closing this.

[misty9]

Okay. Thanks Mr. Mist.

Can you please show me the actual syntax for using get_the_modified_author()? I will close this ticket as soon as I test my page. thanks.

[misty9]

Fyi, I have upgraded to WP 3.0.1 already.

[misty9]

I have used the_modified_author() that works now. Thank you so much for your help.