Links disappeared

  • treadsoftly

    (@treadsoftly)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    I upgraded to 6.0.35 today from 5.9??. Experience similar to others. No links displayed on any of the relevant pages or widgets, with message “All of your links must be assigned at least to one category to be displayed”.

    I tried to Re-import links as directed in your note but receive the error message “Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in /var/sites/t/treadsoftly.net/public_html/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 5122.”

    In the Category section, my Categories are all displayed, with articles in the link “count”. But in the Links section, only one link is listed with a message “Fatal error: Call to undefined method DateTime::setTimestamp() in /var/sites/t/treadsoftly.net/public_html/wp-content/plugins/link-library/link-library-admin.php on line 5708.”

    The Category numbers have changed. If I amend the shortcode in the relevant page, the update fails with message “Fatal error: Call to undefined method DateTime::setTimestamp() in /var/sites/t/treadsoftly.net/public_html/wp-content/plugins/link-library/render-link-library-sc.php on line 1319.”

    Now trying to reconfigure old version.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    There are a few issues to tackle here:

    – First off, have you been able to re-install the previous version to get back to a working state?

    – Sorry to hear that you are having trouble with importing links from the previous version. I have written things in the code to allow for execution that is longer than 60 seconds, but I guess that your host is preventing that code from actually running for more than 60 seconds. When you look at the All Links section, do you see a good portion of your links. A hidden function exists in the plugin to continue import your links, instead of the Re-import links function, which flushes all links from the new format before re-importing. To use the continue import function, just use the URL:

    http://www.treadsoftly.net/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=link_library_links&continue60update=1

    You might need to go through this link multiple times to get through the entire import.

    If you are still having problem after this, the next thing I could suggest would be to export your links when version 5.9 is running, then import them in version 6.0. You may not get 100% of fields, but most information should be there.

    – For the errors about settimestamp, I looked it up and these functions were introduced in PHP 5.3. I guess you are still running version 5.2 on your server. I just re-wrote these sections of code to be compatible with PHP 5.2. The fix is in version 6.0.36, which I just pushed out.

    Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    I just realized that I had made a mistake in this new code, which I corrected in version 6.0.37. Please let me know if you can now properly see your links in admin and front-end, and if the import continuation technique works. Thanks.

    Thread Starter treadsoftly

    (@treadsoftly)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    thanks for your notes. I have reinstalled Version 5.9.15.7 in line with your guidance note. There are some bugs, especially with pagination. I was probably working previously with an earlier version which I had managed to configure successfully. I’m pushed for time now and there’s not much point in you looking into it.

    I can see all my links in “All Links”. There are 690, according to the Link Categories counter – I think the true number is half this figure, because each link is tagged to All as well as an individual category.

    I have successfully exported all my links to a spreadsheet. I’d prefer to pause now as it looks as though similar issues are still being reported to you.

    ericbrotman

    (@ericbrotman)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    All my links are gone. Only the categories remain.
    I am running 6.1.3.
    I am not sure when I updated to 6.1.3
    What do you suggest?

    Eric

    Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    After the update, the Links menu should no longer appear in the backend, but there will be a new section in menu called Link Library. This is where your links should be.

    If you have duplicate links or no links under the the Link Library menu item, you should go to the Global Options page and click on the Re-import links button.

    Once you see links in the Link Library section, if you don’t see links on the site, it is most likely due to the fact that you had put options like category IDs in the shortcode to display [link-library]. If you have category IDs in there, you will need to update these to match the new IDs after the migration to version 6 and above.

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