Could you do a screencast? Something weird is going on if you can’t run the plugin normally.
The plugin runs ok and with older sites it shows the custom content types that I have already created but when I try it on a fresh install I can’t see the add post type button even with all plugins deactivated?
Oh and when I try removing the current version and using 0.9.3.3 it doesn’t show the new post types and when I add one and switch back to the new version that content type doesn’t show up but the one I setup with the new version does again…
Have you tried reinstalling? This sounds like an FTP error or something. In any case, I can’t reproduce the behavior, so there’s no way for me to fix it. Back-up your content type definitions (under the CCTM Tools menu), then do a complete reinstall. If the problem persists after a complete reinstall, you’ll have to do a screen capture (e.g. using Jing) so I can see what you’re doing. If it persists, then please file a bug in the bug tracker.
The data structure used in 0.9.3.x and 0.9.4.x is totally different, so flipping back and forth like that between versions will probably do any number of weird things: stick to the latest version.
One of the problems that occurred in the update script required some people to have to edit their existing definitions and re-save them: that forced the data to be rewritten in the new data format. So if you’re not seeing a particular post-type in your menus, try editing and re-saving its definition.
Beyond that, I really need to see exactly what you’re doing, so once again I’ll recommend that you do a screencast because it saves enormous amounts of time and it shows things that you might never think to mention in a forum post.
Tried it with a totally fresh install of WordPress and same problem, I recorded a screencast while I was doing it:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26091284/screencast.mov
Is there a way to manually add a post type?
By the way I just tried to import the exported JSON and nothing happened, the saved custom post types are still outputting to the browser as expected but I can’t access them in any way in the CCTM.
Oh and not sure I mentioned I’m using MAMP on Mac
PHP Version 5.3.2
MySQL 5.1.44
Latest version of Chrome and FF in the screencast
Craziness. Do you have PHP errors enabled? I’m guessing there’s some error going on that’s not printing. MAMP doesn’t print them by default — you have to edit your php.ini file and restart Apache.
If you visit this URL on your local installation directly, what happens?
wp-admin/admin.php?page=cctm&a=create_post_type
I’m pretty sure this is a problem with your environment and not with the plugin though.
Aha that url works! No worries I’ll try and get errors switched on and get back to you, thanks for your help by the way 🙂
Ok got errors on now thanks for the tip!
Warning: sprintf() [function.sprintf]: Too few arguments in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/2011/Client/PWB/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/controllers/list_post_types.php on line 9
Paste the first few lines of that file in here please. The line should look like this:
$data['menu'] = sprintf('<a href="'.get_admin_url(false,'admin.php').'?page=cctm&a=create_post_type" class="button">%s</a>', __('Create Content Type', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN) );
My guess is that if you viewed the source of the pages where the button is missing that you’d see the anchor tag there without clickable text.
$data = array();
$data['page_title'] = __('List Content Types', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN);
$data['menu'] = sprintf('<a href="'.get_admin_url(false,'admin.php').'?page=cctm&a=create_post_type">%s</a>', __('Create Content Type', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN) );
$data['msg'] = CCTM::get_flash();
$customized_post_types = array();
$displayable_types = array();
There’s an empty div when I use the code inspector <div id=”cctm_nav”></div>
