In a support thread titled “Published page not visible?”, piffy reports that pages marked as “docs” (via the Discourse Docs plugin) appear blank when published — though content is visible in browser inspector — even after removing the “doc” tag. The issue persists across themes and in safe mode. SaraDev attempts to reproduce the issue on their site (running 2.9.0.beta7) using Chrome and Firefox but cannot replicate it. They ask for details about the content and whether the issue occurs with identical content not tagged as a doc. piffy confirms the problem occurs only with doc-tagged topics, even after tag removal, and shares example links: a broken published doc page (https://www.elitefourum.com/pub/how-to-get-a-sprite-signature) and a working non-doc page with similar content (https://www.elitefourum.com/pub/doc-test-ignore). They suspect another plugin may be involved, but the consistent trigger is the doc tag. The issue remains unresolved and appears isolated to piffy’s instance.
I was playing around with the Page Publishing feature and noticed that pages that are also “docs” (Discourse Docs) do not appear as published pages.
That is to say, I can publish them and the page is generated but the page appears as a blank screen. The content appears to be there when I use the browser inspector but is just not visible.
I experimented with topics that are “docs” and they all have this problem (even when I removed their “doc” tags!) and topics that weren’t “docs” did not have this issue.
I attempted to navigate to the published page in safe mode but it didn’t seem to make a difference.
Just wonding if this is only a problem on my end (some weird plugin combination?) or if others are having this issue.
I tried to recreate this on my site also running 2.9.0.beta7, but was unable to reproduce this behavior.
What browser were you viewing your site with? It’s interesting that the content was present when you inspected the page, but was not actually displaying anything. For my testing I was using Chrome Version 103.0.5060.134 and Firefox 91.12.0esr.
Do you recall generally what kind of content was in the Doc topic you make into a published page? I’m wondering if there might be content from another plugin in the post that could be causing this issue besides the Doc plugin, or if the content was just using core Discourse features (plus the Docs plugin).
If you create a topic with the exact same content as the one that’s showing the blank published page, but never include the tags to make it into a Doc, is the issue still present? It’s odd that the issue with the publish page topic persisted after removing the Docs tag.
