Issue with Advanced custom fields plugin

Hi there,

Another thing to consider that I have not noticed at first sight….
The issue occurs when I am the WPMU staging environment, not on the live one…

Hence I’d rather ask the WPMUDEV staff and mark this thread as resolved. Sorry !

Hola Ruben,

I reopen this issue about the ACF fields disappearing under the WPMU staging environment when gamipress is activated.

Here’s what the guys at WPMU dev replied :

“As soon as I deactivated Gamipress, the fields started showing up correctly.

I also tried to replicate the issue with the same setup on my own test site – both on production and on staging and wasn’t able to do so, it shows up correctly for me in all cases, no fields go missing.

In this case, especially since Gamipress seems to be causing some issue here and disabling it makes it disappear, we’d suggest it would be best and quickest to contact the support at Gamipress to check in much more detail what is causing the issue. It certainly be much quicker to get this issue solved from their end as they know the plugin in detail and may be able to more quickly tell what caused it.”

Another point : the guys at loco-translate also provided a fix for an early loading issue that prevented the translation of your plugin from their tool.

The very good comments and rating for gamipress is well deserved I think, it’s easy to set up, and well documented.

However, from my experience, it looks like it’s quite conflictual with essential plugins :

Locotranslate : 5 stars, more than 1 million active installs.
Advanced custom fields : 5 stars, more than 1 million active installs.

I’d be glad to help with the french translation on translate.ww.wp.xz.cn, but locotranslate, is, for instance, the easiest way to have our own translation strings really matching the philosophy of our gamification… Ranks, for instance can be translated “Grades” or “Rangs” or “Niveaux”…

Well, Quite a long post, sorry,

I hope we’ll hear from you, I am sure i am not the only one relying on your plugin and being frustrated by minor issues.

Que tenga un buen dia / Have a nice day 😉

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by tskpbls.

Hi Ruben,

So sorry for the late reply, I’ve had a hard time repairing my archlinux os.

I am not suprised that everything works just fine on a live environment. Still, there’s an issue when i am under staging environment of WPMU, with the standard WP 2020 theme, and only gamipress and ACF fields activated. (so, yes, I have tried with the basics)

Issue under staging only :

To be more precise, everything seems to be be working just fine in ACF with a very fresh gamipress install, but as soon I create a rank, or, well any data posted in gamipress, then ACF creates blank fields, or exisiting fields are marked with type : “unknown”.

Again, all of this is under WPMU staging environment, and ACF looks ok on live environment, so the issue seems to be between the staging environment and gamipress, but not with any other plugin…

I’ll be online all the time from now on. Sorry again for the late reply.

Fyi, here’s the last full post from WPMU Staff… I am not sure they tried to create any achievement or rank… With a bare plugin after install, no issue for me either…

Hello

Hope you’re having a great day!

I was able to track down the issue down to a conflict caused by Gamipress in this case. I tested on staging by deactivating almost all plugins and switching the theme to TwentyTwenty to make sure there’s no external interference.

I left the following plugins active:
– Advanced Custom Fields
– BuddyPress
– Tableau de bord WPMU DEV
– GamiPress
– GamiPress – BuddyPress integration

With those plugins active, I was able to still see the issue in the ACF edit screen, so I started deactivating plugins one by one, first “GamiPress – BuddyPress integration” and then “Gamipress” itself.

As soon as I deactivated Gamipress, the fields started showing up correctly.

I also tried to replicate the issue with the same setup on my own test site – both on production and on staging and wasn’t able to do so, it shows up correctly for me in all cases, no fields go missing.

In this case, especially since Gamipress seems to be causing some issue here and disabling it makes it disappear, we’d suggest it would be best and quickest to contact the support at Gamipress to check in much more detail what is causing the issue. It certainly be much quicker to get this issue solved from their end as they know the plugin in detail and may be able to more quickly tell what caused it.

As for our system of points, we use a custom solution we developed for ourselves :slight_smile:

Kind regards,
Pawel