I’ve run into problems with my site after upgrading WordPress and PHP. WordPress 7.1.1, PHP 7.4.33 and Pods 2.9.19.5
The issue now is that I cannot manage my Pods fields, they aren’t displaying, and the problem appears to be related to JavaScript. I’m getting the following error, Incorrect use of < label for=FORM_ELEMENT >
Are there any other errors or warnings, especially in PHP error logs?
The JavaScript error means there is a <label for="ID_OF_INPUT_OR_SELECT"> element on the page, but a matching form field with id="ID_OF_INPUT_OR_SELECT" was not found not the page… it generally means what you already observed: the form field is not on the page.
The recent changes in that point update were security and output-sanitization related… unless there is more specific information, one known issue which might be related would be to verify labels of Field Groups and Fields do not contain any non-ASCII characters.
If there are no 404’s reported in Web Inspector Network tab, try clearing browser cache (shift-reload) and any CDN cache if in use (Cloudflare, Host, Caching plugins), as fields can sometimes not load after an update if the old version of field scripts are still loading.
I have cleared the browser cache and the cache at my webb hosting with no luck.
I ran a quick test by installing LocalWP on my local computer with WordPress 7.1.1 and an empty Pods 2.9.19.5. and I get the same phenomenon with the fields. Then I tried upgrading the Pods version on my computer to the latest one, and the fields started working again. It must have something to do with the WordPress upgrade.
I upgraded to the latest version of Pods on the web host and migrated my PHP scripts to files, then I had to fix a few errors in the PHP code. Now everything is working again 🙂
