Recent Posts Block bug when choosing excerpt option?

  • Resolved dogel

    (@dogel)


    4 years, 2 months ago

    When I add a “recent posts” widget block to an existing page and choose the “display excerpt” option, I get a proper display in the editor, but when clicking “save” (“aktualisieren” in the German interface), WP shows an error message “Aktualisierung fehlgeschlagen” (“update not successful”). When I try to view the page, it’s completely blank. When I now remove that block in the editor, the page content is displayed again.

    This happens in a theme I created myself, but please note:

    1.) The “recent posts” widget block works properly with *all* other available options, *only* activating the excerpt option causes that error.

    2.) I am using excerpts on other pages of that website (using the_excerpt() in the php template) without any problem. But using that block won’t work with excerpts, also when I try to use it on a new, empty page.

    Could it be that there’s a bug, or can I do anything to work around that, for example in functions.php?

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by dogel.
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  • Hello @dogel,

    Could you please try activating one of the default Twenty* themes? Then check whether the Excerpt option of the “Recent Posts” widget block is working. That will help you determine whether it’s your theme that’s causing the problem or something else.

    Thread Starter dogel

    (@dogel)

    Thanks for your reply, Niall!

    I did what you suggested. The 2020 theme makes no difference (same behaviour), but I additionally went through all the plugins again and found that the problem only appears when the “WP YouTube Lyte” plugin is active. So i guess I’ll have to contact the plugin author for this…

    You’re welcome! Great that you found the cause of this.

    If your question has been answered, it would be great if you would mark this topic as resolved in the sidebar. This helps the forum’s volunteers find the topics that still need attention and more people will get helped, possibly like you did.

    Thread Starter dogel

    (@dogel)

    Last report in this thread: Yes, the error was due to the “WP YouTube Lyte” plugin, but the plugin developer already fixed it after I reported it to him (in less than a day – great support!)

    Yeah, that’s great!

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