Fields missing in Add Listing Form
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October 5, 2017 at 4:46 pm #399045
Hi GD Team
I got a fancy issue in the “Add Losting” Forms no matter if its gd_place or gd_events.
I did set up some payed options so the people can choose from different options.
On first load the form looks fine, but when I change from one option to the next nearly all form fields get missing as shown in the attached screen shot.
Any help is highly welcome
October 5, 2017 at 5:28 pm #399060Please check the pricing package and make sure you select all the fields you want to show.
If you have any problems please provide wp-admin details in a private reply and we will have a look.
Thanks,
Stiofan
October 7, 2017 at 6:25 pm #399421Hi Stiofan
Sorry for the late reply.
I was looking a bit deeper into it and accidentally noticed that this happened in Firefox but looked ok in Chrome – I was quite surprised.
So I flushed the whole Site and restarted it from scratch and the issue is gone.
However I still wonder what went wrong, as I used the same plugins and themes like before.
Miracles?
Anyhow I got confronted with a new issue this time: I exported all the data and images, followed the instructions to import them.
All the data got restored fine after the import, except for the author, because it had a different ID.
Maybe here it would be nice if the importer would make a check if that author exists and if not if an alternative author should be used.I quickly changed the ID in Libre Office and did a next attempt. Now the author was there and I uploaded the images to the folder mentioned by the importer 2017/10.
All the pictures are there but in the Media Library I just got those grey placeholders… and the images show as unattached and of course dont show up on the site.
How could I fix this issue? Manually attaching them would maybe work but there are a few hundereds of them ….
Thanks for any hint, Peter
October 9, 2017 at 2:28 pm #399640I’m not sure i understand why the author ID changed?
What images are broken?
Stiofan
October 9, 2017 at 4:24 pm #399651Hi Stiofan
thanks for your reply
The author ID has changed because I did completely build a new new site from scratch and didn’t add the users in the same sequence on the new site.
I think this issue will arise sooner or later for everyone if they try to export some data from one site to use them in another site.
Maybe it would also be a nice to have exporter feature if it would bee possible to select records just from one or more users.
In the meantime I managed to solve the image issue – I used the wrong images – my fault!
Sorry to bother you about this.After using the right images all worked fine, sort of.
In the Media Library the images still showed the grey placeholders, but I got that working as well after running EWWWW Bulk optimizer scan.
What I personally don’t understand is why all the images have to get added into one folder and not into the original folder structure?
I mean, what if someone got thousands of images over the years and want to use the exporter because of rebuilding the site? And maybe even used some of them in articles and other places?
Maybe it would be nice if there would be an option in the exporter that lets the user choose if he wants to keep the original folder structure or not.
October 10, 2017 at 12:22 pm #399818I’m sure we could improve it in someways, for the images we thought about it and being folder agnostics overall seems to be the best solution. I’m not sure what we would do for Authors though.
Stiofan
October 12, 2017 at 12:31 pm #400181Hi Stiofan
thanks for your answer.
I just thought about to do an export right from the database with plain vanilla SQL.
Would you have any hints about what to care for and which tables I would need to export?
This would help me perfectly and I could also replace user id’s with SQL then.
Thanks again for the great support you and your team provides, thumbs up
October 12, 2017 at 3:38 pm #400226Its almost impossible to do it with just SQL, there are relations between the tables that would be to complex to do with just SQL.
Stiofan
October 12, 2017 at 7:22 pm #400299Hi Stiofan
this sounds like a little challenge 🙂
But tbh, I think this is a weak spot in the otherwise great GeoDirectory.
So for a migration it seems to be the best way then to export all users and import them to the target site before importing the GD data.
Do you know some good tools for exporting / importing users?
October 12, 2017 at 9:56 pm #400337Hi,
there are really plenty of options: https://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+export+import+users
Thanks
October 12, 2017 at 10:10 pm #400344Hi Paolo
thanks for your reply, but that was exactly the reason why I was asking if you know a good one. There are simply too many and everyone claims to have the best one to offer.
I thought you maybe have one that you have made some good experiences with.
Anyhow I’m getting closer to complete the SQL script to export the listings data.
October 12, 2017 at 10:20 pm #400346TBH never had to use one.
If I had to do this I’d probably use these 2:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/export-users-to-csv/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/Probably you’ll have to adjust the export to be compatible with the import, because they are from 2 different developers and I doubt they are compatible out of the box.
In any case it will be just few copy and paste of columns.
Let us know how it goes,
Thanks
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