Custom Post Types Disappearing

  • Resolved claireleee

    (@claireleee)


    3 years, 2 months ago

    I’m creating a website that requires many post types, and for some reason there are a certain post type that keep disappearing from the dashboard sidebar menu. Althought the posts within the types are still there and the advanced custom fields will automatically link when I recreate the post type again, they have been disappearing from the backend. Not sure if this is going to keep happening or if there’s anything in the settings that could prevent this from happening again, as I am handing this off to the client in a couple of weeks

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  • Plugin Contributor Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    3 years, 2 months ago

    Are you trying to make use of the “Menu Position” field for these? or are you letting that default to whatever WordPress internally recognizes in the end?

    Thread Starter claireleee

    (@claireleee)

    3 years, 2 months ago

    The first couple of times, I did position each of the post types using the menu position field. I did recreate them again, but this time didn’t position them, they are on the dashboard menu, but the last couple of times they disappeared, it was after about a week. Perhaps, they will stay this time since the other post types that didn’t disappear wasn’t positioned!

    Plugin Contributor Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    3 years, 2 months ago

    WordPress is slightly odd with the menu_position spot because last I knew, you could have positions overlap, and they don’t really throw any sort of warning/error/etc, it just overwrites.

    That said, gradual disappearance is also odd unless more got added in that time. If was just “yeah, haven’t touched the site at all this week, and they’re gone…” hmm.

    Thread Starter claireleee

    (@claireleee)

    3 years, 2 months ago

    My team and I updated and worked on the wodpress site throughout the week, so it was being monitored. Will update in about a week or two to report if they disappear again! Hopefully not setting positions will be the culprit!

    Thread Starter claireleee

    (@claireleee)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    After about 1 week of updating the site and 1 week of also not touching the site, the custom post types that disappeared before has stayed. Thank you Michael, you were correct about the positioning fields, not using them was the culprit for the original disappearances!

    Plugin Contributor Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Awww yiss. Let us know if you need anything else.

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