New users are seeing an unintended banner at the top of all pages until they dismiss it. I’m guessing someone inadvertently created a banner topic. How can I track down which topic was inadvertently pinned? Normally this would be easy- just search for the banner text and find the corresponding topic- but in this case, the text is auto-generated and occurs in hundreds of topics.
If I try to pin another topic, it tells me there is currently a banner topic. But where?
I’ve done that- the text in the banner is “This topic does not yet have a summary”. The problem is that we have hundreds of topics with that text, and I need to find the pinned one so I can unpin it and make the banner go away. (Assuming that’s even what is causing the banner.)
I must not be using the right terminology- here’s a picture. I impersonate a new user so I can see the “banner”. It only has text, no link- I can’t click on it to find the source or topic id.
Try creating a new account, granting it moderator or admin, and logging in as that account. I guess clearing the banner must be stored in a more persistent per account location.
You should see the “edit this banner” text on the banner topic, like so
I understand, this was unusual. We had a bannered topic with one post, which was working fine. Then we commissioned a plugin to auto-insert a wiki post as the first post of each topic, in hundreds of topics. So the newly-inserted wiki became the banner.