Multiple (duplicate) Features post

[dawudraamah 0]

"Filter Posts in Pages" plugin is causing duplicate Features posts and box posts. It does not effect the regular frontpage post however. By the time I caught it I had thousands of boxes and feature posts. I would say the plugin has a bug, but it does not effect the regular WP regular post? If there is a fix I would be interested Thank you in advance. Enjoy the day

[catrina 103]

Have you tried deactivating other plugins you have (one by one) to see if any of them could be causing the problem?

[imaner 0]

I'm having exactly the same problem with this on a live site. I had over 20,000 feature 'posts' duplicated. I need to delete features entirely, however everytime I delete them the default 5 re-appear along with the category and then start duplicating again! How can I remove all features and boxes permanently? Or has anyone else come across this issue and has a fix?

[catrina 103]

Strange. Did either of you upgrade recently?

[imaner 0]

Catrina No this was a straight install on the latest version. It's on a live site. I'm going to have to get to the bottom of it and find out exactly when the feature and boxes posts are duplicated. However in the meantime I'm after a way of removing them permanently (because if there were no posts of either of these types then they could NOT be duplicated). My feeling is there must be a duplicate function call that is used by both plugins. It's a real pain as this site totally relies on showing posts in pages filtered by category (it's the foundations!). It would be really helpful if one of the pagelines team or anyone else could point me to the code that creates the default instances of the features and boxes, as I want to remove this as a starting point! Cheeers Andy

[Simon 248]

Andy, fix incoming...

[imaner 0]

Cheers Simon, it's the first of the month so my morning is tied up and knowing that you're on the case is a GREAT help! Many thanks.

[Simon 248]

Right, fix is simple Create folder `wp-content/mu-plugins` create a file in that folder `del_features.php` put into that file: `<?php` `add_filter('pagelines_default_boxes', '__return_null' );` `add_filter('pagelines_default_features', '__return_null' );` Reason it has to be a plugin, the defaults get loaded before child theme functions file is parsed, plugin files are always loaded first

[imaner 0]

I'll give it a whirl within the hour :-) and report back! Meanwhile I've got nearly 90,000 post meta's to sort out!

[Simon 248]

lol seems like a job for phpmyadmin

[imaner 0]

correcto mundo ;-)

[imaner 0]

Simon OK I tried this and it's not doing the trick. I'm testing it on the features. I'm wondering if the feature sets is also interfering with this: 1) Delete feature sets(only one called default-features) - this deletes OK, 2) Delete 5 default features. 5 move to trash and 5 re-created PLUS the feature set default-features reappears? I have done this with the 'List category posts' plugin active AND deactivated with the file below added: wp-content/muplugins <?php /* AW: file used to stop creation of pagelines pro default boxes and features which were being duplicated by post on a page plugin */ add_filter('pagelines_default_boxes', '__return_null' ); add_filter('pagelines_default_features', '__return_null' ); ?> Any thoughts? Andy

[Simon 248]

its mu-plugins not muplugins rename your folder, trust me it does work!

[imaner 0]

OK I changed that and now get a 404 from admin with following errors (which don't get if remove the file!): Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, '__return_null' was given in /home/iasjorg/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 166 Warning: array_reverse() [function.array-reverse]: The argument should be an array in /home/iasjorg/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/platformpro/sections/features/section.features.php on line 611 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/iasjorg/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/platformpro/sections/features/section.features.php on line 614 Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, '__return_null' was given in /home/iasjorg/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 166 Warning: array_reverse() [function.array-reverse]: The argument should be an array in /home/iasjorg/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/platformpro/sections/boxes/section.boxes.php on line 354 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/iasjorg/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/platformpro/sections/boxes/section.boxes.php on line 356

[imaner 0]

PS If I leave the file in I can't use admin at all :-(

[Simon 248]

LOL sorry about that, i didnt have debug on when i tested here is the correct filters: add_filter('pagelines_default_boxes', create_function( '', 'return array();') ); add_filter('pagelines_default_features', create_function( '', 'return array();') );

[imaner 0]

Houston, we have arrived! :-) Finally got rid of all those pesky features and boxes ;-). Cheers Simon. Just one other thing regards my 90,000 pieces of postmeta which are no longer linked to them feature and box posts - is the meta info like feature-thumb used anywhere other than in features and likewise feature-anything plus the box met is that just the_box_icon ?? I don't want to screw the database up by removing postmeta that is used in other places. Thanks for getting me this far. Andy

[Simon 248]

apart from feature-sets and possibly the taxonomy i think your safe to nuke, but of course, your making backups im sure

[imaner 0]

yes, have been making backups! Just one thing to say on this. I hadn't noticed the duplication of posts (features/boxes) because these elements were not being used on the site. However I had noticed a significant speed reduction on the site and was looking at caching plugins (specifically W3 Total cache). I was surprised at how long the cache was taking to create and thought I'd investigate the database - at which point I was surprised to see almost 22,000 posts 85,000 post metas and 20,000 term relationships (99% of which I had not created). I've seen people on the forum discussing how size affect speed using pagelines platform pro and all I can say is that it does continue to work, albeit slowly (maybe 9 sec page loads) at this size database. However even with caching on sites of this size the page load can be reduced to less than 1 sec using W3 Total cache (with page cache and css/js minification only) and if you are mainly using WordPress as a CMS without too much dynamic content then using pagelines pro with the base template overrides and 30 plugins is still a very good way to go, even with 20,000 'pages'! Looking forward to being able to output posts in pages via Pagelines Pro itself in future. Meanwhile I hope to try and find the issue with this plugin, as I may actually want features and boxes one day.

[Simon 248]

If you figure a way around it, and need a filter adding to core, dont hesitate to email me or open a ticket http://www.pagelines.com/trac

[eleake 0]

I've had the exact same issue but am a little confused on the solution. I created a plug in and installed to WP through the Add Plugin, Upload process. The plugin activates, but I do not see it listed and it has no effect. Pretty sure I'm doing something wrong here. Thanks for the help.