Theme activation throws errors

  • crcderek

    (@crcderek)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    i created a theme using underscores as a base theme and everything was fine until today when I started getting errors on the ‘All Posts’ and ‘All Pages’ pages (only those two pages)

    Error on the page show above the right column above all listed posts and pages and churns out the same errors about a dozen times:

    Warning: preg_match(): Unknown modifier ‘d’ {…}/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 231
    Warning: preg_match(): Unknown modifier ‘d’ {…}/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 232

    Which points to:

    
if ( preg_match("#^$match#", $request_match, $matches) ||
    preg_match("#^$match#", urldecode($request_match), $matches) ) {

    At the time I was installing and configuring some plugins:
    Adminimize
    Client Dash

    So assuming it might be the plugins I deactivated and uninstalled them but the error still showed.
    I then assumed it maybe corrupt data in the db so restored the db to a known working backup but still nothing.
    I then tried activating a different theme and again nothing the error persists.

    Now all that said I decided to do an isolated install:
    I installed the theme on another server thinking it may be a server issue and noticed the issue has to be with my theme, as it starts when I activate it but even if I deactivate it and go back to the original default theme the error stays..

    Any ideas?

    Currently taken everything offline and will be starting a fresh install in the morning on the original server but any pointers to what may be causing this error and how to fix will help me a lot as I’m now looking at having to pull older versions of the theme from git and test each until I find at which point it breaks 🙁

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  • Thread Starter crcderek

    (@crcderek)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Update: Did a fresh install with a previous version of my theme and this is the exact error I’m getting repeated 19 times.

    Warning: preg_match(): Unknown modifier 'b' in /var/sites/c/<domain>/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 230

Warning: preg_match(): Unknown modifier 'b' in /var/sites/c/<domain>/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 231
    Thread Starter crcderek

    (@crcderek)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Update:

    Think I have narrowed the issue down to this WP action in my theme functions.php file that i added to force pages to autoscroll to a section on the blog page (so the header of the page is above the page load area):

    
/**
 * force set link structure to include #blog
 */
function smartest_set_permalinks() 
{
    global $wp_rewrite;
    $wp_rewrite->set_permalink_structure( '/%category%/%postname%/#blog' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'smartest_set_permalinks' );

    This was working fine until yesterday (Friday 25th November, 2016).
    Whether installing plugins stirred something I don’t know but I am now on a clean install of WP with a fresh DB and this function instantly breaks the ‘All Posts’ and ‘All Pages’ pages once my theme in activated.
    Even if I load a new default theme it stays broken so assuming actions are stored in a config that need resetting?

    Anyway unless someone can see a fix to make this function work as I intended I’m removing it and probably going to do the functionality with jQuery instead.

    Hope this helps someone else troubleshoot similar issues.

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by crcderek.
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