PatJ
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On investigation I find that the structure of the ngg_album table has changed and my update did not change it.
Maybe I skipped an update of two but surely this should be catered for?
It wasn’t the solution though – that is somewhere in the wp-options I think, because deleting nextgen from that site and the ngg tables and any obvious ngg/photocrati/imagely options in the options table and reinstalling a new ngg download still didn’t fix the issue with displaying galleries in dashboard.
Works OK on a new clean site and on my live site that hasn’t skipped updates, but not on my photo blog play site which I don’t touch very often.I had a functioning version 3 site on my local wampserver and the upgrade failed. On investigation I find that the structure of the ngg_album table has changed and my update did not change it.
Maybe I skipped an update of two but surely this should be catered for?
It wasn’t the solution though – that is somewhere in the wp-options I think because deleting nextgen from that site and the ngg tables and any obvious ngg options in the options table and reinstalling a new ngg download still didn’t fix the issue with displaying galleries in dashboard.
Works OK on a new clean site and on my live site that hasn’t skipped updates, but not on my photo blog play site which I don’t touch very often.To add to above:
The WAMP server is recent, running Apache 2.4.62.1 with PHP 8.3.14 and MariaDB 11.5.2 and WordPress 6.9 with Twenty Fourteen theme (all updates applied)
NextGen upgrade also breaks on other sites on that server running different themes including Twenty Twenty Four and Twenty Twenty Five
I’m running the free version and it’s now the only plugin running on this site.
It originally had some legacy types chosen but I reset those to default (under 3.59.12) and upgraded again and still had the problem.
The gallery setting for Basic Slideshow has only “Legacy” as a display option so that has to be left.
This site is a fairly basic WordPress site with only external plugins (currently only NextGen plugin) and nothing fancy – I started it as a learning WordPress features site and hardly use it.
So any deprecated code is in either WordPress as supplied or NextGen plugin as supplied!
I use NextGen on one web site and the upgrade worked on that on the live site.
PHP Extensions: Maybe something is missing here?
Any help welcome.
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It’s rather strange because it is working now, though I have the previous csv export to prove that it wasn’t. There has been an update or two since which may have helped.
I haven’t re-tested XML or json though.
I am running a clean WordPress 5.9.3 install with no plugins or additions to the database on my local WampServer and yet I stil get the white screen when selecting Appearance and then Editor.
There is no htaccess file and all my other WordPress local sites are running fine using other themes and the same version of WordPress.
My site address is http://127.0.0.1/wordpresstest/ and my site is in the www/wordpresstest folder so why doesn’t the editor work “out of the box”?Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Featured Image from URL (FIFU)] FIFU Images Stop Displaying@ahenna you make sure that any posts authored by author id 77777 do not get set to any other authr – these are attachment post types.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Featured Image from URL (FIFU)] FIFU Images Stop DisplayingResolved thanks to prompt response from Marcel (author). Excellent service.
Turns out that FIFU post records have author 77777 and a change authors plugin was changing that to my default author.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Featured Image from URL (FIFU)] FIFU Images Stop DisplayingAdditional info:
I then looked at the source generated for my home page which is a static page and all the FIFU image links have been preceded by the web address of the media folder.
So they look like http://www.mywebsite/media//http://mymedialink
I have the option Featured Image In Content set On for pages but not posts so the first image should come from FIFU.
The rest are in the display of posts on the homepage which is a WordPress standard Gutenberg block with Display Featured Image set to On and the posts have FIFU featured images. It all was working nicely until I touched the menu and that wasn’t the homepage entry!- This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by PatJ.
Finally got time to try this. New topic now opened.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Medialist] More file typesThanks. I’ve updated. Theoreticaly that should solve my problem but…
[medialist max=500 mediatype=SQL mediaitems=500 paginate=0 orderby=name globalitems=1]
just gives me “Info! No posts or attachments to display” message.If I change mediatype to images then it lists all the images perfectly.
My media admin page says for one of my files (of 400)
File name: AllCitations-RM7.sql
File type: SQL
File size: 4 KB
so I’ve tried both mediatype=SQL and mediatype=sql but no joy.
And mediatype=”SQL” and mediatype=”sql”The file was uploaded whilst editing a post with “add media” standard Gutenberg block.
Annoyingly although I’m an admin on this particular site, I don’t have control panel access otherwise I’d be looking at code and database entry!
I might end up setting up a test on my local WAMP server.- This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by PatJ.
I’ve had similar experience recently. I’ve been trying lots of different free themes against my existing website setup and decide to use OceanWP together with it’s Ocean Extras plugin. All worked well and FIFU saved the day by displaying featured image in pages. However when I changed theme, the FIFU images didn’t display, just a little link icon and caption. The metadata in the posts and pages was still there and the featured image url but no display. I had to update each individually, remove the featured image and the featured image URL and re-add it before it worked.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Twenty Twenty-One] Menu in 2021I’ve found the cause. Somewhere since WordPress 5.0, the description field in the actual menu items was populated automatically by the update. For categories, this put in the dategory description but for pages it put in the page content and often the entire page content!
Items added to the menu most recently don’t have that field populated.
Editing the individual menu items resolved the problem.Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Twenty Twenty-One] Menu in 2021I removed and re-added pages to the menu which is a pain in a large menu and the issue went away. However I did the same with a category item in the menu and the problem remains.
I am currently trying out a load of themes on my local WAMP server, including twentytwentyone, giving each one it’s own wordpress installation and copy of my live website database and I have seen the identical problem in some of these too, so it may be something in core not just the themes.Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Twenty Twenty-One] Menu in 2021Addenda: The pages were all created with classic editor (the original site was created 10 years ago) and even if I change a shortcode page to use the shortcode block the menu problem does not go away.
However if I add a new page and use the classic block and add that page to my menu the problem is not there for that page but still there for others.
So the menu doesn’t work with pre-existing pages, but there are an awful lot of existing pages out there and so it should be made to work. Re-creating every page is not an option for most websites.So today I went to another of my sites running 3.0.10 and all is well and no logo screen, the roles admin (and others) are at the top of the screen without needing to scroll.
Then I updated directly to 3.1.1
The horrid logo area at the top of the screen now appears and I have to scroll down to the bottom to find the roles admin.
I don’t see how flushing the cache can get rid of something that is in the plugin code and it certainly is not an acceptable fix for a bug.