Viewing subscription page

Hi DJM,

thank you for your remarks, this is helpful!

* there’s no way (button, link…) to go back to the admin interface (if not opened in a new tab). Had to activate the “Show Toolbar when viewing site” user option.

Oh, I didn’t consider someone would hide the toolbar on the site. We’ll improve this, you can track the progress here: https://github.com/akirk/friends/issues/126

* on the Friends page, the “older posts” button doesn’t seem to work : doesn’t go to “/page/2/” although the page feed shows “20 posts”.

Actually it should load the next page in the background and add it to the bottom to provide endless scrolling. Maybe this didn’t work for you? Could you try again and see if you encounter a JavaScript error when scrolling all to the bottom?

Tracking this in https://github.com/akirk/friends/issues/127.

* Although I do have “image” and “video” type posts, they don’t seem to appear

By default, your own posts are not shown on the friends front page except on the status page. We’ll figure out a way to improve this inconsistency that probably confused you, tracking this here: https://github.com/akirk/friends/issues/128

* when using Yoast SEO, 2 new taxonomies are created: Reactions & Feed URL.

These should not be exposed, tracking this here: https://github.com/akirk/friends/issues/129

Thank you for reporting these and sorry for the trouble! I’ll look into solutions for the above soon.

Alex

Hello,
OK, I should add more context to my report, to help better understand 2 & 3 above.

W3N is the RSS “server”: doesn’t have AP or Friends. Uses the Astra theme that allows post formats. I have posts in the following formats: video, image, standard, link & quote. The feed serves 20 items (Settings/Reading).

WWW is the Friends RSS “client”: uses the Twenty Twenty theme that has no native support for post formats. In Settings/Reading, “Blog pages show at most” is set to “1”. I only subscribed to it, not “friended” (although it appears like that in “Friends & Requests”) as the Friends plugin is not insstalled on W3N.

Both sites use W3TC and AIOWPS.

A – I open “/friends/” – page called “Main Feed” – only 1 post appears (although it says 21 at the top of page). If page refresh, same. If click on “Older posts”, where link says “friends/page/2/”, I’m back to /friends/.

B – If I click on “Image” => “/friends/type/image/” => Message “Your friends haven’t posted anything with the post format Image yet!” Not true – page title is “Sorry, Page not found” and I get a 404 error flagged in the backoffice (using the Redirection plugin). Same for video. Status is OK, with the fact I friended W3N a few hours ago, and the box to publish a new one.

C – now, if I click “Refresh”, the feed is updated, I now have 23 posts available, and endless scrolling is there. Images appear in posts, but not YouTube videos or other oEmbeds (such as tweets) [limit of RSS?]

D – all posts are declared as “standard” by default in the menu on the right near the collapse button. This might explain why “image” & “video” give empty results.
I should try activating “Always enable Post Formats, regardless of the theme support” in Friends settings to see what happens…

E – “/friends/?public” shows the first post from the W3N feed in the WWW theme. The number of available pages is 23, consistant with point C. If I click on 2 or 23 or “older posts”, I get back to “/friends/” although the link says “/friends/page/2/?public”

Re: Yoast SEO – when installing Friends, 2 new taxonomies are created in Search Appearance – Reactions and Feed URL. By default “Show Reactions in search results” is ON

Re: 403 Forbidden
* go to /wp-admin/users.php?role=friend%2Cacquaintance%2Cfriend_request%2Cpending_friend_request%2Csubscription then from the top bar, click “My Friends Feed”, page appears. Now click on the browser’s back button => 403 Forbidden You don’t have permission to access this resource.

Hope this helps.
Sincerely
DJM