physalis

You can in a way circumvent the problem by enabling ‘Display loading indicator for buttons (Helpful for slow sites with cache enabled)’ and ‘Include loading indicator image on page load’ (the latter does not show an image if you did not enable the loading image in the box above) in the ‘Display’ settings tab. This way there is a visible indicator that the page needs to load to 100% in order to succeed.

Edit II: This happens even WHEN the page is loaded. I click on the Fav button, it switches (and the count of user favourites changes too), then switches back to unfavourited, and the user fav count is going back too.
What I observed is that if possibly one of your plugin’s resources hasn’t loaded yet and you already click the button, the console throws an error, saying
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined for simple-favorites.min.js in line 1. Hope this helps a bit!

Edit: Well, it seems to happen when a page needs long to load completely. When I click the button while the content is still loading, the button turns grey, reads ‘Remove’ and then switches back to its former state, and the post is not added to the favourites.

I simply have the same problem on a site I am using it with, but thought I hadn’t done it properly myself. However, other users of that site report it as well. Adding a post to favourites often doesn’t work immediately, only after adding it multiple times (i.e. hit add to fav, reload page –> state is not being saved, hit button again, reload, then it is saved). Is there something known to interfere with your plugin?

Yes, if you rely on it to filter the_excerpt, you’re pretty much lost with the plugin since quite a while.

If you’re only after changing the word count and the ellipsis characters, you can throw this into your functions.php:

* Excerpt length */
function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
     return 40
;}

add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );

/* Excerpt ellipse */
function new_excerpt_more( $more ) {
     return '…';
}

add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');

Edit: I don’t know what it was, but I had to switch themes and switch back to my current theme in order to finally see it! I just tested it out on another demo site and it worked there, so I tried the thing with switching themes, and it finally worked. Thanks for your support!

Thanks for your info, Kyle. You may help me out on this one, though. On the user’s favourites list page, I create the list plus the Clear button by inserting

[user_favorites include_links="true" include_buttons="true"]

[clear_favorites_button text="Clear Favorites"]

into the page. What I get is the list (without any buttons) plus the Clear favourites button, but no option/buttons to remove single items from my list. I checked the source code, but there are only the list items and no buttons for favourites removal. Am I doing something wrong on my end :)?

Thank you so much

physalis