Page break not working in posts

  • Esaú

    (@egozalor)


    5 years, 7 months ago

    Hi all,

    We publish a daily podcast with our WordPress blog, and we had been using the line break block in the block editor to inlcude a transcript of each episode in a second page. We want to have the transcript for SEO and accessibility reasons, but we don’t want posts to be so long.

    Since last week, probably after some plugin updates (specifically, updates to the core companion plugins of our theme, Uncode), the page break block has no effect in all our new and exisiting podcast posts. All the transcript displays on the first page, right after the post content. Page number buttons do display at the bottom of the post, but clicking on page 2 only loads the same page with all the content.

    I have tried searching for what could be causing this error, but with my limited knowledge of WP and PHP I have found nothing out of the ordinary. I have also not been able to find other support threads online describing this exact issue.

    It is worth mentioning that we are using a custom post type for these podcast posts, but we have also replicated the pagination issue in a standard post.

    I realize this is probably not a lot of information to work with, so please let me know what other details I could provide.

    Thanks a lot in advance! 🙂

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    You mentioned line break and page break, which are different. I’ll assume you meant page break.

    The way that paginated posts works is that when WP populates the post object, the paging parameter influences what is put into the ‘content’ portion. Then the theme simply displays whatever content is provided to it and outputs the links for the other pages.
    So I would guess that one of your plugins is filtering the query and messing up the page parameters or the part of the selection of the ‘content’.

    You can isolate the problem, without affecting site visitors, by using the Health Check plugin in Troubleshoot mode. It will help you disable plugins for your user only, as you look at paginated posts to see when they work correctly.

    Thread Starter Esaú

    (@egozalor)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    Hi Joy,

    Thanks for your reply! Yes, I am indeed referring to page breaks and not line breaks, my bad.

    It’s good to know that I can disable plugins only for my user with Health Check. I’ll do that right now and report back!

    Thread Starter Esaú

    (@egozalor)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    Hi again,

    I have tried disabling plugins one by one in Troubleshoot mode, and it seems like none of them is causing the issue individually.

    The only plugin that might be related is Uncode Core, our theme’s core companion plugin. When disabling it, the site automatically switched to the Twenty Twenty theme.

    In Twenty Twenty, even with all plugins active, the page break works without issue.

    So I imagine our current theme is somehow causing the issue. Any ideas on how could I further troubleshoot?

    Many thanks!

    Joy

    (@joyously)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    The theme should be able to run without the companion plugin.
    But it sounds like you have narrowed it down to the theme stuff (whether actual theme or the theme plugin), so if it’s not your theme, you should ask at that support forum. If it is yours, I would first try going back to the version that worked, and see if it still works. Then compare the versions and see what changed, to find the culprit.

    Thread Starter Esaú

    (@egozalor)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    So, I have not managed to fix the issue, but I’m leaving this update behind in case anyone is facing a similar problem.

    I posted my issue in Uncode’s open Facebook community, without responses. This is not an official support forum, I believe, so that was expected. We are internally evaluating if this is worth purchasing an Uncode extended support package.

    Wether it be that route or other, I’ll try to update this thread whenever we find a fix that allows us to keep our theme.

    Thanks Joy for the tips!

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Esaú.
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