Cannot create new page title

  • Resolved trevor@trevorsweb.net

    (@trevorjordan)


    7 years, 5 months ago

    I have a family history website built with Elementor Pro using the GeneratePress theme. Recently it has exhibited two oddities:
    1. In the Dashboard, selecting ‘All Pages’ takes me to the ‘Posts’ page. If I then again select ‘All Pages’ I am taken normally to the list of my pages.
    2. When I try to create a new page the Title field is populated with the title of another, existing, page (‘Moxon Wills & Download Links’) and no matter what I try, that name will not be changed. I’ve tried in the Elementor page settings dialogue which briefly accepts the new name then switches back to the ‘Moxon Wills & Download Links’ title. The same happens in the New Page dialogue, and in the WordPress dashboard. Notwithstanding, the content of the new page is intact, so in the ‘All Pages’ list there are multiple instances of the same page title, all with the same name but with unique content. Of course, the rogue name shows up in all the menus, making navigation quite hopeless.

    I’ve tried deactivating all my plugins and using a standard WordPress theme (Twenty-seventeen), but the behaviour persists. I have reloaded WordPress from the Dashboard settings. I hope someone can advise.

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  • Joey

    (@leglesslizard)

    7 years, 5 months ago

    Hey,

    If the behaviour persists with everything deactivated then it points to a problem with the core files themselves. Have you tried re-installing WordPress? I’ve not heard of this behaviour but maybe you have malicious code somewhere causing a nuisance?

    I don’t think it would be but one thing that might be worth checking is that you clear/stop any caching you have going on just in case this is causing problems.

    When you say “recently”, can you think of anything that has changed? Behaviour only changes with an install when changes are made so maybe an update or similar has caused the change. If you could think what changes have been made it may help you track down the issue.

    Thread Starter trevor@trevorsweb.net

    (@trevorjordan)

    7 years, 5 months ago

    Hey, Joey,

    Thanks for the reply. I’ve loaded a cache plugin (Comet Cache Lite) without success. So I think I might now need to reinstall WordPress from scratch into an empty directory. I don’t want to start reloading all the media and text (there’s a lot of it) but wonder if saving and reinstating the wp-content folder might just retain whatever code might be the cause.

    All and any advice gratefully received.

    Joey

    (@leglesslizard)

    7 years, 5 months ago

    Well I think I’m right when I say when the plugins are deactivated the code inside the plugin folder does not run. (I can think of ways this code could run but it’d be a very strange situation!)

    One way to be sure would be to rename your plugins folder (e.g. OLDplugins) and then it shouldn’t be accessed at all. You could also re-install a default WordPress theme to make sure the theme hasn’t been altered at all. With all of that disabled I’d just be looking to ensure no core files had been changed (try a fresh install of WordPress) and go from there. With everything else out of the picture it can only be WordPress core or something extra added in that’s causing the behaviour I think!

    The caching suggestion was to make sure you ARE NOT caching. This avoids the possibility that something is being stored when it shouldn’t which can sometimes cause odd issues. So remove any caching that you can. I’ve never seen your specific issue but you do see weird things happening with caching sometimes.

    Thread Starter trevor@trevorsweb.net

    (@trevorjordan)

    7 years, 5 months ago

    I have found the culprit! It was a setting I had never found in LastPass which autofilled the title field when I tried to create a new page. Deleting that in LastPass solved my problem. But thank you for your help which I very much appreciated.

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