Still supported?

Hi aecnews, thanks for using the plug-in. I’ll have a look at the warnings you’ve reported and issue an update.

The plug-in is small and usually ticking along merrily between WordPress updates, so there’s not been a need to update it.

But it looks like now there is, I’ll report back with my findings.

This part of the plugins accepts a list of posts (an array of retrieved posts after they’ve been fetched and internally processed.). If you’re seeing a warning that iterating on that is not possible then I suspect there’s an logic error on the theme, as an empty list should be returned.

Here’s the source https://github.com/svandragt/hide-trackbacks/blob/1.1.4/hide-trackbacks.php#L112

If you’d like me to give more details could you please provide the following:

– Can you reproduce it with one of the default themes, to rule out the theme?
– could you post a link to one of the pages where this warning is happening so I can inspect the html and derive context from it.
– do you know the php version you are using, this can be found on the site health screen.

Hope we can get this sorted.

Thanks, Sander

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by Sander van Dragt.

Hi John,
I’ve pushed a new version 1.1.5 where it’s being extra checks around this issue, and the PHP warning will no longer show.

I’ll mark the support issue as resolved.

The filter is this one: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/the_posts/
It is used by get_posts(): https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/get_posts/.

So to start, if you have Query Monitor active, navigate to a page where you see the warning happening (bar will turn orange). Query Monitor will tell you also what template is loaded. Search that for get_posts.

It also could be code messing with global $posts variable, if that’s happening all bets are off.

The fix depends on how it’s being used, I see you’re using a commercial theme so perhaps you’re able to get support. https://www.gabfirethemes.com/themes/advanced-wordpress-newspaper-theme/

Apart from the warning, there are no side effects.