"An error occured, please try again" – All edits on content is failing.

  • Resolved muffinjello

    (@muffinjello)


    8 years, 7 months ago

    Just updated Tailor a few minutes after this major bug started happening in hopes of it fixing itself – not too sure of why this is occuring.

    I enter Tailor editor, and trying to edit anything (even pressing preview in fact) results in the item I’m editing completely disappearing, and a javascript console error such as: TypeError: this.view.el is undefined (full error below) and on top of that, when I go to try and save/publish the page, I get a “An error occured, please try again” message in the top right.

    Tailor was working fine a few days ago when I was using the site (but now I can’t edit any pages via tailor uhuhuhuu).

    The only plugins I have installed have to do with a child theme creator, Custom Post Type UI, and custom post fields (or something). Any ideas?

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  • Thread Starter muffinjello

    (@muffinjello)

    I put together a gif showing the issue in action, with dev tools open. Any ideas?

    The work I’m doing is fairly urgent, and I have no idea what could be causing this. ??

    https://pasteboard.co/7vJEnUtYp.gif

    Plugin Author Andrew Worsfold

    (@andrewworsfold)

    The issue here is actually being caused on the server side, as when calls are made back to the server to render an element or save the page, the response is not as expected. I am unable to reproduce this and it’s almost certainly being caused by PHP errors created by the theme or one of your active plugins (there are a few console errors caused by other plugins/the theme which may be symptomatic of a larger problem).

    Troubleshooting could be a little tricky because of this. Could you please:

    1. Disable all plugins aside from Tailor and see if this fixes the issue. Try and identify which one is causing the problem.
    2. Change to a default theme and see if this fixes the issue.
    3. Add the following code above the /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */ line in wp-config.php (a file in your root WordPress directory):

    define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true );
    define(‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true);

    That could highlight any PHP errors in the admin or front-end of your site.

    If you’re familiar with code at all, it would be helpful to check what response is actually coming back from the server, for both the render_element and save requests. If not, let’s start with the steps above.

    Cheers,
    Andrew.

    Thread Starter muffinjello

    (@muffinjello)

    Hi Andrew!

    Unfortunately none of the three things you suggested to me worked, or gave me any indication (boo!).

    I am a code developer (usually sticking to CSS unfortunately) and I have no idea how to check the server responses as you mentioned in the end. Is there some JS var I can console.log? Enabling WP_Debug didn’t seem to uncover any errors, unfortunately.

    Plugin Author Andrew Worsfold

    (@andrewworsfold)

    So you disabled all other plugins, changed to a default theme (e.g., Twenty Sixteen) and are still experiencing issues? Interesting.. Which hosting company do you use? Is there anything else unusual about your set up?

    Assuming you’re using Tailor 1.4.2 and have script debugging enabled (so it loads the non-minified versions of the scripts), the element rendering function is ‘onChangeAttributes’ on line 2907 in file assets/js/dist/canvas.js. It may be considering the request as successful, so try “console.log( arguments );” in the success function; failing that do the same in the error and complete handlers.

    The save action is handled from line 99 of assets/js/dist/sidebar.js. Try adding a similar check in the error handling function on line 131.

    Thread Starter muffinjello

    (@muffinjello)

    Hi Andrew, thanks for your help so far!

    I managed to get it to console.log the arguments, both in my main theme and in twenty sixteen. The log from twenty sixteen is as below:
    https://pastebin.com/1qLHaZWd

    From what it looks like, it’s like for whatever reason, the HTML being returned is the wordpress admin bar (???) instead of the HTML for the updated widget.

    Any ideas?

    Plugin Author Andrew Worsfold

    (@andrewworsfold)

    The response from the render_element call should be an object containing the element HTML along with the associated CSS rules. This is different, unexpected and not something I have seen before.

    There’s something very weird going on here, but it’s difficult for me to say what without more investigation. Would you be able to grant me temporary access to your server so that I can take a closer look? If so, you can contact me at hello at gettailor.com.

    Cheers,
    Andrew.

    Thread Starter muffinjello

    (@muffinjello)

    Hi Andrew, thanks for your speedy as ever response.

    I created an account with you as the email, you should receive a password by email or whatever it is WP does.

    Plugin Author Andrew Worsfold

    (@andrewworsfold)

    Thanks for that.

    I can log in, however I cannot delete the Tailor plugin. It’s deactivated, but when I try to remove the files it just sends me to the frontend of your site. Which host is this with, because that too is very strange behaviour?

    If possible, it would be great to get FTP access as debugging within WordPress itself is hard. Failing that, I’ll just need to be able to successfully add/remove plugins.

    Cheers,
    Andrew.

    Thread Starter muffinjello

    (@muffinjello)

    Huh, that’s bizarre. I wonder what’s up. No matter, I’m sending you the FTP details as soon as I confirm they work. Thanks!

    Plugin Author Andrew Worsfold

    (@andrewworsfold)

    Hi muffinjello,

    I know based on our discussions outside of this platform that your attention is on other matters now. Given that the issue seemed to be related to your hosting environment, there have been a number of releases since this issue was raised and that I cannot reproduce the issues I will close this one out.

    Please don’t hesitate to raise another issue if you encounter this or another issue again in the future.

    Cheers,
    Andrew.

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