Featured Image disappears after changing category that place is attached to

p.s. to be called a bug, you must be able to recreate it every time you perform an operation, can you?

Becuase we can’t.

I can reproduce this bug every time, I even gave you access to our system so you could try it out for yourselves, happy to help you reproduce, please treat this issue with the respect it deserves,

If you wish me to talk you through images getting deleted when places change categories on our system then please let me walk you through it, It happened again ten minutes ago.

I was proving that no records found on the front end home page message was as a direct result of an SQL query that only looks for places attached to top level categories for another thread I have running on here when I came accross the problem.

It seems to be frustratingly and unnecessarily difficult to get acceptance a clearly defined and re-producable bug.

If you care to add your own image to any one of the places in our site then I will just change the category that business belongs to and you can see for yourself that it has gone.

I would also appreciate a solution to the missing places on the home page which has absolutely NOTHING to do with map markers as indicated in this thread https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/front-page-map-markers-disappeared-after-updating-geodirectory/#post-196749

Kind regards

James

Thanks

In settings >> media, you had “Organise my uploads into month- and year-based folders” disabled.

Yes this was deliberately set to enable simpler ftp’ing of images, are you suggesting that disabling this setting does not work and the option to disable shouldn’t be there? or is there a mistake I have made? Perhaos this feature should be removed?
Thank’s for taking the time to look again.

Listings in GeoDirectory must be attached to both sub and parent category. it will not work if you only attach them to the sub catgeory.

It used to work, this problem appeared somewhere between version 6.0 and 6.2. I can restore to a backup made 9 days ago and all is good. I am aware that attaching to the top level category fixes the home page map as I pointed this out in the opening post.
The map on the listings page works fine without needing to attach to top level categories.
I could find nowhere in the changelogs that was deliberately introduced changed behaviour, I checked before posting

I restored to a backup made 9 days ago prior to upgrading Geodirectory.
and places were showing fine. I then went through upgradig every plugin one by one and checking after each upgrade and all was ok until the upgrade of Geodirectory and then everything disappeared with no places found messages.

It is odd that the listing map still works without needing places to be at top level and if this really is the new expected behaviour then it would have been useful to have had such a major change documented. Saves a lot of frustration.

Thanks again for taking the time to look into this issue

1 please see: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/basic-installation/#media

We can’t remove that setting being a WordPress setting and not a plugin setting. But it is mandatory to be enabled for GD to work.

Brilliant, thank you, I totally missed that. I’ll make the change.

I’ve just downloaded v1.60 to test and see if I’ve always been wrong all this time. I’ll let you know asap.

I’ll restore my site to a point that it worked so you can see if that is helpful?

Also the listings map works fine without places being attached to top level

OK, so for your information We were able to manually delete the top level category from a place in the admin area, in fact it was this action that caused us to notice the featured image going missing.