Stopped working after WP4.4 update

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  • Thread Starter create180design

    (@create180design)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    P.S. – I reverted my site back to 4.4 and the search&filter form works again.
    I would like to update my wordpress version back to 4.4 but need to know that the search and filter will work.

    Plugin Author Ross Morsali

    (@designsandcode)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Hi there

    I took a look at your site the other day, and I saw the issue is not with S&F.

    If you do a search you end up with a URL like:

    http://www.centralflorida55plus.com/amenity/bocce-ball-courts/

    Well, when you had upgraded, S&F was producing this kind of URL correctly – but, the layout and results of this page was incorrect.

    I can tell you, this page:

    http://www.centralflorida55plus.com/amenity/bocce-ball-courts/

    Is actually not controlled at all by Search & Filter – this layout is controlled by your theme.

    If you disable S&F now (please try it) and access this URL:

    http://www.centralflorida55plus.com/amenity/bocce-ball-courts/

    You will see it is still behaving as it should.

    If you upgrade again, and disable S&F, you will find problems with this page.

    This to me looks like an issue with your theme not being WP 4.4 compatible or another plugins/custom code.

    Thanks

    Thread Starter create180design

    (@create180design)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    I deactivated all my plugins and still no change.
    I deactivated my theme and just used the 2015 theme and tried the url again and still no change. It keeps showing the content from the home page.

    The only thing that corrects this issue is if I revert back to WP4.3 instead of 4.4.
    I have a unique layout specific to the search results but it is not recognizing these urls anymore.

    Thread Starter create180design

    (@create180design)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Please, I need to get this working asap. I verified that I get a blank results page with the generic WordPress 2015 Theme. It is not my theme that is creating this error.

    Plugin Author Ross Morsali

    (@designsandcode)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi again

    As mentioned at the top of the forums in the sticky, support is limited.

    However, I do come on here occasionally, and fix bugs and work through issues with users’ – especially if they are the fault of the plugin.

    There have been approximately 4000 downloads of S&F since the release of WP 4.4. No other users’ are experiencing issues now.

    I also test on the default WP themes, 2014, 2015 and now 2016.

    The plugin works in all of those when testing on clean installs.

    All the data above, tells me that there is something different, something you are doing (perhaps not intentionally) that is non standard.

    WP changed a bunch of things in WP 4.4, whereas S&F has almost no changes at all.

    So your issue is coming from the upgrade in WP, or something else pre-existing in your setup.

    I’ve no idea how you are creating your custom templates, or trying to load them, but S&F does not choose which templates to load.

    WordPress does this, based on the URL

    What happens when you access this URL with S&F disabled AND on WP 4.4:
    http://www.centralflorida55plus.com/amenity/bocce-ball-courts/

    This URL is a WP url so if its not loading correctly with S&F disabled, then it is not a S&F issue.

    Thanks

    PS, you should be using the template hierarchy to load your custom templates:
    https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/

    Thread Starter create180design

    (@create180design)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    I greatly appreciate your quick response!

    I tried accessing this URL with S&F disabled AND on WP 4.4:
    http://www.centralflorida55plus.com/amenity/bocce-ball-courts/
    …and nothing changed. I am still seeing the home page.

    Perhaps it’s the way WP4.4 is handling custom taxonomies????

    Plugin Author Ross Morsali

    (@designsandcode)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Its really hard to say the issue, I don’t think its an issue with WP4.4 and custom taxonomies per say, as otherwise there would be quite a lot of people complaining on the internet that WP broke some fundamental functionality.

    However, it could be something to do with the way you define your taxonomies, perhaps there is something slightly incorrect in the way you do this, that was allowed in previous versions but no longer works.

    Or perhaps permalinks are not working correctly in your setup (to reset them goto the permalinks page and simply save the page again to refresh the settings).

    Either way something is buggy, because at least those URLs should be showing a 404 if it could not detect the taxonomies.

    My recommendation is always to try things on a clean install, and add in plugins/features one by one until you find the cause of your error.

    Thanks

    Thread Starter create180design

    (@create180design)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    I am using the WP-Types plugin as well and have contacted them to have them look at my permalink structure as well.
    When I removed the custom permalink structure option I was able to get 404 pages when multiple items were selected but when only one item was selected it was pulling in blog posts instead of the custom post type.

    When you say start with a clean install, are you referring to rebuilding the site??

    (sorry, I’m in panic mode now)

    Plugin Author Ross Morsali

    (@designsandcode)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    I just mean to setup a test site somewhere to figure out the issue – which you can delete afterwards.

    Thanks

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