Post content in large posts fails to display with 6.0.1

There were changes made as to how links were processed to aid performance.

Do you have the plugin configured to only apply to content and comments or set for Globally (entire site?)

What’s the site’s url?

given that nothing is displaying, I’m assuming there is probably some error or warning getting issued. Is it possible you can turn on WP_DEBUG in your wp_config.php and reactivate the plugin to see if a message is occurring?

Thanks

Here’s the error reported by WP_DEBUG (occurs with v.6.1):

Notice: Undefined variable: p in /../wp-content/plugins/efficient-related-posts/efficient-related-posts.php on line 318

In the settings, “apply global is not checked.

The site’s URL is https://opensiddur.org

Pages are displaying fine with the plugin deactivated, but here’s an example page which the plugin would break:
https://opensiddur.org/siddurim/sefarad/mahzor-aram-tsoba/

The plugin would only break large posts with a certain amount of text, not shorter posts.

Aharon,

Thanks for the more detailed info on the problem. I did grab the entire page source for the page you mentioned and processed it on my development server. The good news is that nothing in the content broke. In fact I ended up with a mirror of your page but with the external links info applied.

I do notice when I click on the link above the page takes a bit to load. A few things come to mind…

1) The execution time setting in php.ini is only set to 30 seconds (or a low value). I would try and increase that on the server (or have your host do that)

2) Check that php output buffering is enabled for your site

It simply seems that due to the page length, the server is just timing out the execution of WP given the amount processing going on. The added External Links time may simply be pushing it over the timeout setting.

In terms of the overall page length you might consider using the WordPress page break functionality simply to shorten the overall page length to a multi-paged post/page. From a user’s standpoint it is very long and takes a while to scroll to the bottom and back to the top.

I doubt this is the problem given that it only cropped up when the external links version bumped from 5.4 to 6.0, especially since the new external links version is supposed to be snappier than the old one.

In any case, thanks for your time looking into this given that it’s one of your free plugins.

I should only have added that everything is running fine on the site since I rolled back to v5.4.

hmmmmm. I still lose sleep when there are issues that can’t be explained. You said you aren’t applying globally so then it falls to the link processing algorithms themselves.

I hate to keep releasing versions to track this specific issue down. Can you email me through https://www.semiologic.com/contact-us/ and I can send you a altered version to try?

Thanks

Aharon,

I know we came up with a solution for this. I’d be curious to know if the 6.3 version works with the page with Apply Globally off.

It works, on or off.