Plugin completely breaks Polylang
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Polylang is a very popular localization plugin:
https://en-ca.ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/polylang/
For my example, I have a custom post type with the slug “product”, and three taxonomies registered to the “product” CPT.
I’ve set Polylang to translate the CPT and its taxonomies.
Now, when I use Simple Taxonomy Ordering to reorder any one of the three taxonomies, I run into major issues.
1. Any WP_Query for the “product” CPT will result in incorrect permalinks when using get_permalink() within that secondary loop (the permalinks are missing the language slug).
2. When WP is doing ajax (DOING_AJAX = true), any WP_Query for “product” will fail and simply return results for the primary language set in Polylang.
3. Deactivating (and even completely deleting) the plugin only fixes issue #1. Unfortunately issue #2 doesn’t get fixed. I suspect that the plugin does not clean up after itself once it’s deleted.
So my question is, how do I undo what this plugin has done to the database? If deleting the plugin doesn’t purge what it’s done to the database, then would it be possible for a quick and dirty explanation on what needs to be undone so that I can fix it manually?
Thank you for your time.
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Hi @brian1037,
Sorry about that. I will look into this later today and hopefully get back to you with a solution.
Kevin.
Yup, the free version. I should’ve included more details in the first post.
Plugins:
YIKES Simple Taxonomy Ordering 1.2.4
Polylang 2.1.2 (free version)Wordpress 4.7.3 set up as a network, with 4 additional sites installed. The sites are configured as sub-domains. I don’t think this is part of the issue though.
To reproduce the issue, create a template with this code
<? // Template name: Test template $posts = new WP_Query(array( 'post_type' => 'product', // or any post type with taxonomies who's orders are managed by Simple Taxonomy Ordering 'posts_per_page' => -1 )); if( $posts->have_posts() ) : while( $posts->have_posts() ) : $posts->the_post(); echo get_permalink() . '<br>'; endwhile; endif;With Simple Taxonomy Ordering disabled, you get the correct permalinks. For example, it would be http://example.com/en/product/product-slug.
But, when Simple Taxonomy Ordering is enabled, and is configured to reorder a taxonomy registered to the post type, then the URL’s turn into this: http://example.com/product/product-slug. The language slug disappears.
Thanks again for your time
I really appreciate the detailed post. What I’m doing should be equivalent, but I’m not seeing the
http://example.com/en/product/{product-slug}coming through.I have a home page template, and I set my home page to be static, pointing towards my template. I also sent polylang to translate the home page (so it goes to http://www.mylocalenv.dev/en or http://www.mylocalenv.dev/es).
I’m fetching a CPT with taxonomies (ordered by Simple Taxonomy Ordering), and echo’ing the permalink. I see
www.mylocalenv.dev/{cpt_slug}/{cpt_name}I disabled and deleted Simple Taxonomy Ordering and I see the same thing:
www.mylocalenv.dev/{cpt_slug}/{cpt_name}Am I missing a polylang option somewhere? Do I need to tell Polylang that my CPT should be translatable and returning the language code for the permalink?
Edit: I apologize I’ve never worked with Polylang. Thanks for working with me.
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