Support » Plugin: ReOrder Posts within Categories » Plugin dysfunctional after WP 5.0 Install, turning category into “Nothing Found”

  • Resolved wayfary

    (@wayfary)


    I downloaded the Health Check Plugin and ran troubleshooting with it due to a “Nothing Found” Page on one of my category pages. Once I disabled the “ReOrder Post Within Categories” plugin, my site worked fine. All other plugins were clean (I checked just in case). I believe this has only been happening since the install of WordPress 5.0.

    More details: I have multiple category pages on my site, and all were working except one. Here is my site currently, in its fully functional state: http://www.sanfrancisco.wayfary.com/
    So the homepage was fine, all the menu links (which go to category pages), all the links to articles on the homepage, and all the links to articles in the footer worked fine. The only problem was the “Getting Around” menu link. When clicked on from the site, it was showing “Nothing Found” message. From my dashboard, when I tried to view (view, not edit) the individual articles from the Posts menu, I got the same “Nothing Found” message on all articles except one (I believe this was because the one functioning article in this category happened to be linked elsewhere on the site’s homepage, while the others were not).
    Anyway, I deactivate “Reorder Posts”, and my problem seems to be fixed. It would be ideal to be able to use my re-ordering plugin, but for now its deactivation is better than having an entire category missing. Let me know if you come up with any fixes for this. Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author Aurovrata Venet

    (@aurovrata)

    that’s odd. I made some tests on my local machine and the plugin is running without any issues with WP 5.0.2.

    Could you run your setup with WP_DEBUG mode enabled to see what kind of errors are being thrown in the back-end?

    Anyway, I deactivate “Reorder Posts”, and my problem seems to be fixed.

    this is not necessarily the culprit. The reordering is rendered by hooking into the posts_where and posts_orderby db search flow, and if another plugin uses these same hooks, it is possible that the resulting sql query is simply not able to return any posts.

    the only way to really get a handle on the problem is to look at the resulting sql query. You could use Query Monitor or Debug Bar to debug the sql query.

    Thread Starter wayfary

    (@wayfary)

    Ah, yes, it is WordPress 5.0.2, my mistake.
    Regarding the rest, I do appreciate the suggestions, but they are a bit advanced. But you’ve explained it very clearly and I understand what you’re saying. If I get the time to learn more back-end stuff and PHP, then I’ll look into it.

    Plugin Author Aurovrata Venet

    (@aurovrata)

    I do appreciate the suggestions, but they are a bit advanced.

    sorry to read this. Unfortunately there is no easy way to resolve your specific issue.

    This plugin was initially designed/coded by another person, but they abandoned it. So I adopted it and resolved to maintain it. I plan at some point in the future to re-write it in order to make it more compatible with WP core functionality. I will also try to find ways to make this kind of debugging requirements easier to handle.

    In the mean time, if you need specific help with your site, you could always hire my services by reaching out to vrata at syllogic dot in

    Thread Starter wayfary

    (@wayfary)

    Oh man, that’s how these plugins seem to go sometimes. Thanks again for your suggestions. If I ever come up with a budget for professional support, I’ll keep you in mind, thanks!

    Plugin Author Aurovrata Venet

    (@aurovrata)

    sure, you’re welcome.

    One quick and easy step you could do would be to switch on the WP_DEBUG mode by following these instructions and see if you get any errors reported. I would recommend you switch off the display mode and switch on the log mode (all details are in the page linked above0, this way you don’t get errors are logged in a file rather than being printed on your screen.

    this will not tell us anything about the SQL query being executed, but it will allow us to rule out any errors.

    Thread Starter wayfary

    (@wayfary)

    Ok I’ll try that, thanks.

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