Jeff Adams
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Paolo, I went to the staging site and updated the main GD plugin and this did not cause the problem, at least it did not appear to. Then I updated three plugins that are not GD related:
Akismet Anti-Spam
Beaver Builder
WPS Hide LoginAfter I updated those three I went to the front end and sure enough it did in fact create the problem. I’m not sure if the main GD plugin didn’t refresh or not when I checked the front end after updating it. But, assuming it did the problem was most likely from updating one of those three plugins.
Which one do you think it was? I wish I would have done one at a time. 🙁 I went ahead and deleted Akismet because I wasn’t using it. I like using WPS Hide Login to prevent someone from being able to go to wp-admin. I am assuming a lot of your users use Beaver Builder. I am really using that a lot on this site.
Here is a video of this happening:
Thanks for sharing those ideas with me.
I wasn’t working on the site, I was just adding a listing when I noticed the problem. The GD plugin update was several days ago if I recall correctly, I think sometime last week.
A developer setup the staging site not me, he’s creating a plugin for me. But, this was setup almost a month ago.
I understand it could have been many things and the importance of backing up. I currently don’t know the best way to go about backing up. I do have it being backed up automatically with my hosting provider. But I imagine that’s only in the even something catastrophic happens.
The problem is this. I may not notice a problem right away. So, I may back it up today, update a plugin, then add several listings, etc… and tomorrow create a backup, etc… and then I have to figure out when the problem occurred and backup and lose everything I did since that problem.
I’ve actually been trying to get someone else in the mix to help me manage the back end more (like security and backups independent of the hosting provider). It’s been hard to find someone local.
I also noticed that the font in listing view for the title of the listing is larger now and uncomfortably close to the listing image. See attached image, staging site on left is how it used to look and the one on the right is how it looks now.
Oh, and earlier I said 5 CPT’s, that wasn’t including the Events… 🙁
There has been countless times I’ve been working with custom fields and wished there was a better way to edit and save them. Right now it’s very time consuming and frustrating to only be able to edit one at a time. I’ve felt this way many times before but never said anything. Right now I’m really hating this workflow. Ideally I’d be able to open as many as I want and save them all in one click.
It would also be EXTREMELY helpful if there was a way to open all the custom fields in one click.
So you know, it only whipped out the locations for custom fields I created, not the default ones.
Man, I am boiling mad right now. My staging site doesn’t have “all” the customizations I had originally. So, I have to really think through all the locations where I had each custom field. This is going to take a long time, a long time I don’t have 🙁
The more I dig into this the more I realize it’s really going to take A LOT of time to fix this. I have 5 Custom Post Types and each has over 20 fields. This means I have to comb through over a hundred fields to see if I can remember all the locations I had everything. This couldn’t happen at a worse time. I, like most people I am sure, have way too much going on to be peddling backwards like this.
So, this caused me to miss my appointment with my customer. So, now I’m going to spend time trying to figure out exactly how I had things, redoing what was undone, and then check to make sure nothing else was undone… in case someone checks to see what the difference is and I’ve already added the locations back…
The site is VeganLinked.com
The examples are: https://veganlinked.com/services/united-states/north-carolina/shelby/neofilm/
and http://staging.veganlinked.com/services/united-states/south-carolina/gaffney/neofilm/
I have a staging site that didn’t have the updates and you can see for example how the custom fields were showing and now there now (see attached images).
here’s what I’m talking about on video:
