Unique Plugin Information being lost on Posts Only

Hi,

I have searched in vain for an answer to my issue, but no joy anywhere!

The website is a uk youth football (soccer) team website. There are many age group related teams, each with different trainers, and contact information. Therefore the system I am using is that each team has its own page with static information, and then has four unique posts which link from that page (gallery, results, news, sponsors). each page and post for a specific team has its own unique contact details sidebar information. My client then just updates posts only, and page does not need to be touched.

Am using a WordPress 3.1.1 installation. Two plugins I am using are working properly on pages, but not posts. The offending plugins are 1) Graceful Sidebar (which enables the user to add customised information to the sidebar on pages and posts), and 2) All in One SEO Pack.

Both are doing the same thing, which is when you update a Post, if you just update the content in the Visual / HTML area, then click the ‘Update’ button, although the main post content has updated, the post has lost the Graceful Sidebar information when checked in the front end, and in the back-end all the SEO information is now blank.

The only workaround is that everytime you update a post you also add the existing information to the ‘Graceful Sidebar’ area and ‘All in One SEO’ areas too before clicking update.

The information for these two areas needs to be obtained before clicking into update the post, because also once you click the post update button, both areas of information disappear too. But if they have been populated before clicking update, although they disappear in the backend ‘update post’ screen, they do appear correctly as intended (i.e Graceful Sidebar area in frontend / All in One SEO in backend). However when you update a page all information is still there everytime you update in the backend, and never disappears.

Sorry to waffle on a bit, its easy to see the problem when looking at it, but not so easy explaining!

Although I appreciate this issue maybe a bit too specific, I was wondering if any of you have experienced a similar issue with other plugins that create another input area in pages and posts. Where pages seem less fragile than posts.

I guess the only final piece of information which is worth mentioning is that there is another plugin being used in posts but not pages called ‘related’ (which adds the ability to select other posts, which then appear underneath the post you are adding or updating as links (i.e. ‘You may also be interested in these posts’)).