Category Titles and URL Problems...
 

I'm not sure what caused this or exactly when it happened... it seems on December 22nd, everything was fine, but by December 25th, the problems started to arise. I don't believe there was anything done between those dates, however over the last few days I have been mass moving images and I added a few more categories. I also ran a few maintenance options to update counters.

On the vBGallery homepage, all of the category URLs are appended with "&userid=" like each category is set to be a member's category, although all of the settings are set otherwise. On December 22nd, the URLs didn't include that, but by the 25th, they did.

In each of the regular categories, on BROWSEIMAGES, the title of the category shows a member's username's Images instead of the actual category title. I have a plugin, that I added a long time ago, that pulls the category's title and puts it in the header, that and the title of the category in the navbar are the only locations on the page where the actual category title is correct.

Example here: Pit Bulls at Work

Currently, the page title (at the top of the browser) as well as various locations on the page says "EMac's Images." If you check Google's cache of the page, it was last updated on December 22nd, and everything is correct.

Again, I don't believe anything has been done that would cause either of those to occur... no settings have been changed. The only things that have been done are: added 3 new categories, mass moved several pictures around, and updated category counters, image information, and category cache from the maintenance options.

Any help to remove the appended "&userid=" from the category URLs and correct the issue with the category titles would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Shon

Hmm... after a little more research and testing, the category titles appear to be correct for guests. However, logged in as a user of any usergroup, the titles are as described above.

That sort of kills the timeline theory, so I'm not sure when exactly any of this took place.

Since guests do see the correct category title, that isn't as important... although I would like to get it fixed for members. It is really important that I get the "&userid=" out of the category URLs though.

Again, thanks for your support.

How about posting a login so we can try and see what you mean. what version are you using?

Pit Bull Pictures: Picture Gallery of Pit Bulls

Login: testuser
Password: test

I'm using vBGallery 2.4.3 and vBulletin 3.7.0

Thank you for you quick response.

Main Album - PhotoPost vBGallery

Have you made any changes, I post a link and am logged into a test vbgallery category and it shows the catname

Try redownloading the build and upload all the files and reinstall the templates.