A problem with redirection

Glad to help.

What you describe does not happen on default WP install. But if you can provide basic steps to repeat the issue, it would enable me to investigate and try to resolve asap. Something like this will make it possible to follow along and try to help:

1. Install WP
2. Install/activate Theme Switcha
3. Install activate only two default WP themes
4. Click some link or do some action
5. Etc., until the issue happens

Let me know if any questions about this, thank you.

The issue occurs immediately on a fresh WP but I forgot to mention something important: the issue does not occur when I select a theme from the toolbar, it occurs when I change the theme from a link or thumbnail created by shortcodes: [theme_switcha_list display=”list”] or [theme_switcha_thumbs style=”true”] It always redirects to the last post visible on the page I am on.
However, the shortcode [theme_switcha_select text=”Choose a theme..”] from what I see does not cause any issues. But I would like to use thumbnails on my website…

• This reply was modified 3 weeks, 6 days ago by lex17.

Sounds great but I still need the basic steps so I can follow along, repeat the issue, and try to resolve asap. Not much I can do without the steps, thank you for understanding @lex17.

I do exactly what you wrote in the previous post:

1. I install WordPress.
2. I install and activate ThemeSwitcha.
3. I install two WP themes: “Twenty Ten” and “Dark TT”
4. in the Widget area I add the shortcode [theme_switcha_thumbs style=”true”]
   The issue is there, it looks the same as on the page I linked to in the first post.
   The issue does not occur only if there are no entries in the blog… (or if I’m using the shortcode [theme_switcha_select text=”Choose a theme..”] ).

Okay that is very useful. Can you elaborate on Step 4, maybe break it down to basic steps. There is a lot going on there and I want to make sure that I am following accurately, thank you.

I go to “Appearance” – “Widgets” and on “Primary Widget Area” I add “Shortcode”. I click “Update” and nothing else. I don’t add anything else, I don’t have any other active widgets, I don’t change anything, to take as few steps as possible. I can even show you a screenshot from the Dashboard: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yb9ro9ct1jsg4ubzjge33/screenshot_2024-10-31_20.46.49.png?rlkey=ogq9y3apel3vbxh4a3lrydw2q&dl=0

Ok thanks that is very helpful. I will be looking into this, and in the meantime one thing to try: notice in your screenshot the shortcode is using curly/fancy quotes for the style attribute:

[theme_switcha_thumbs style=”true”]

Try replacing the curly quotes with straight quotes like this:

[theme_switcha_thumbs style="true"]

Basically shortcodes work best when using straight quotes for all attributes.

Ok, thank you. I’m sure I copied the quotes correctly but I think Notepad “corrected” it… but correcting the quotes unfortunately did not help.

Thanks I am seeing it now, it does look like a bug with that particular shortcode. As you mention the other shortcodes work fine. I will investigate further and try to resolve, thank you for reporting this @lex17.