Custom Field "Show in What Locations?" changed

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  • June 13, 2018 at 5:37 pm #434840

    Jeff Adams
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    I just noticed that “Show in What Locations?” changed on my site. The “Show in what Locations?” for two different CPT’s has been cleared out.

    This is extremely frustrating because I am in a rush and I don’t have time to fix this and remember exactly how I had it setup. I have been out of town for over a week and the only thing I remember doing was updating some of the GD plugins.

    Here I am in the middle of trying to finally use my site I’ve been working so hard on and suddenly I’m stifled from meeting with a potential customer as I’m confused about what has happened my site.

    Does anyone have an explanation for what has happened here and how this may be prevented in the future. It had to be the recent GD updates.

    June 13, 2018 at 5:41 pm #434843

    Jeff Adams
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    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).

    June 13, 2018 at 5:42 pm #434846

    Jeff Adams
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    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/

    June 13, 2018 at 5:48 pm #434849

    Jeff Adams
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    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…

    June 13, 2018 at 5:59 pm #434853

    Jeff Adams
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    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.

    June 13, 2018 at 6:04 pm #434857

    Jeff Adams
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    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 🙁

    June 13, 2018 at 6:10 pm #434858

    Jeff Adams
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    So you know, it only whipped out the locations for custom fields I created, not the default ones.

    June 13, 2018 at 6:14 pm #434861

    Paolo
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    The show in what location of all our websites and all other members (thousands) where not affected as far as I know, so it is highly unlikely that the problem was caused by a bug in our code.

    Your database could be corrupted or some other plugin could be causing havoc.

    Don’t you have a back up?

    1st golden rule to manage a website successfully is to make a daily back up. If you love risk and don’t take it daily, at least take it before running any updates or code changes. This is website development ABC.

    Second golden rule is : Work on a staging website, never work on a live website, so that if you encounter problems on the staging website, you can fix them 1st, before bringing them over to the live website.

    Because you have a staging website, why were you not working on it?

    I flagged this for Stiofan to see if he can guess what could have caused this, but without being able to recreate a problem it is almost impossible to identify it.

    June 13, 2018 at 6:55 pm #434883

    Jeff Adams
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    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.

    June 13, 2018 at 7:04 pm #434885

    Jeff Adams
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    Oh, and earlier I said 5 CPT’s, that wasn’t including the Events… 🙁

    June 13, 2018 at 7:07 pm #434887

    Jeff Adams
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    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.

    June 13, 2018 at 7:21 pm #434890

    Jeff Adams
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    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.

    June 13, 2018 at 9:01 pm #434908

    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 Login

    After 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:

    June 13, 2018 at 9:10 pm #434909

    Paolo
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    I have no idea which one is responsible, but that’s a good finding, at least we have something to work on now.

    It’d be great if you could provide wp admin and ftp credentials of both live and staging site so that we can check directly.

    Let us know,

    Thanks

    June 14, 2018 at 1:08 am #434919

    Jeff Adams
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