Header Images Set in Blog Profile Not Displayed in Mastodon

[cogdog]

Quick summary

On 2 sites blog profiles are not displaying a header image when one is selected, yet on a third site an image is shown on profile but is not selected in Blog-Proile

Steps to reproduce

1. Settings set for blog-profile
2. In the Blog Profile, select an image under Manage Header Image

For 2 different sites

What you expected to happen

A profile viewed in Mastodon should have a background image

What actually happened

The profiles do not have background images

Impact

Some (< 50%)

Available workarounds?

There is no user impact

Logs or notes

I have a third site on a different host where the profile does show a background image:

but there is no image selected in blog profile

Maybe I am confused as to where the background comes from

The fediverse addresses for this sites lacking imagesare:

@[email protected] (theme is a child of Fukasawa)
@[email protected] (theme is a child of Cover Version: 1.8.2)

The one that is showing an image is

@[email protected] (theme is a chold of Garfunkel)

[pfefferle]

The images seem to properly set in the ActivityPub Profile, so it seems to be a problem of our update routine. But Mastodon should update the image with the next cache update.

[cogdog]

Thanks Matthias. Who's cache gets updated? Is this through the site? the plugin? through Mastodon itself? I'm still not seeing any change, I have tried via other accounts in a different browser.

It also does not explain why this one @[email protected] displays a profile background image but none is defined in the ActivityPub plugin. The image appears to be the theme's header image.

It's not a critical issue, but seems inconsistent. I really have liked the new features to add more (like links) to the blog profile.

[pfefferle]

Who's cache gets updated?

Mastodon caches all profile informations for some time. The plugin should send an update on every profile change, to force Mastodon to update the cached informations, but there seem to be an issue in the plugin.

It also does not explain why this one @[email protected] displays a profile background image but none is defined in the ActivityPub plugin. The image appears to be the theme's header image.

We try to re-use as much as possible from core WordPress, so if there are other ways to set header images, the plugin uses these as default.

So long story short: All your changes are properly made and you can verify them, by adding ?activitypub to the end of your author-id: https://sadlyrobotic.cogdogblog.com/?author=0&activitypub

Your profile was not cached on the Mastodon instance I am using, so everything looks nice there:

So short story even shorter: You do not have to do anything, but publishing new content. Mastodon will update the cache soon and we will check why the update Activity is not sent properly ☺️

[cogdog]

Ahhh, so much more understanding now, appreciated. And I am enjoying seeing the data one can inspect view the ?author=0&activitypub trick.

I'm off to generate new content.

[pfefferle]

I'll keep it open until we checked the update mechanism.

[cogdog]

New post published on WP site for @[email protected] The header image appears when I am logged on to another instance where I have an account, user not cached, (yay) but still not my primary instance. It also has not updated the follower account. Will wait for cache cycle to catch up.