"Last edited by" not correct username

[WorldWideWaiting]

The "Last edited by" text on the edit-post page shows current username, not username who has last edit.

I've done this:

• on a clean wordpress, latest svn
• login as admin
• make new post
• make new user, type "editor"
• login as the new user
• go to edit-post page of the created post
• it says "Last edited by [current username] on [date created] at [time created]"

[sivel]

Seems to work fine for me in 2.7-RC2-10167

I see the username of the person who actually last edited the post.

[vladimir_kolesnikov]

I think it is not a bug, it is a feature: when you are editing a page/post, WordPress puts a lock on it (wp-admin/post.php). First it checks the lock and if the post is locked, it says something like "Warning: %username is currently editing this post". If the post is not locked, it puts a lock on it and lock is owned by the current user.

[WorldWideWaiting]

Strange feature; when a post (of user A) is locked; it says (when viewing with user B) the good "last edited by" with the good "publish date". When post is not locked, it says "last edited by [current user]", with the time of publish or real last edit.

Isn't it strange, or am I? ;-)

[vladimir_kolesnikov]

Well, maybe strange... The problem is that _edit_last post meta is used both to identify the lock owner and the name of the user who edited the post last time.

As far as I understand, if the User B does NOT actually edit the post and close it, the lock will be eventually removed (or expire) and you will see that the User A was the last editor.

[miqrogroove]

This bug affected 2.6 as well. It has been very confusing ever since the revision system was added.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

my understanding is there's an autosave status now. might that have fixed it?

if not, patch needs to make WP look into revisions only, rather than revisions and autosaves.

[hakre]

Just tested against 2.8 Trunk. Can't reproduce. Usernames are properly displayed in the line below the textarea.

Can someone else please try to reproduce as well with 2.8 svn?

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

please re-open with a test case

[rooodini]

Hi there - I'm new to trac..

This ticket says "re-open with a test case". Can I reopen it please? I have this bug with 2.9.2

[miqrogroove]

This was a duplicate of #10004, please make a new ticket for 2.9.

[rooodini]

Ah ok no problem. Thanks!

[rooodini]

Actually, I'm not convinced this was a duplicate of #10004... I don't think the bug has anything to do with autosaves. But I'll make a new ticket for 2.9.2.

[rooodini]

New ticket: #12763