Big Brother Theme by Automattic: Category page broken

  • With the latest update to wordpress, this theme became broken. It was originally downloaded from wordpress.com for use on a selfhosted site (behind a firewall), and the wordpress.com support had no solution other than to punt us to www.remarpro.com support.

    I have found the issue but cannot fix: the breadcrumb function no longer works. The page gets as far as starting to render the breadcrumbs but cannot complete. In order to get the site working, I have removed breadcrumbs from my child theme; however, it would be great if the functionality was restored. Note that the breadcrumbs on single pages still work.

    The following function is broken:

    function big_brother_the_breadcrumbs() .

if ( is_category() ) {
global $wp_query;
$cat = get_category( $wp_query->get_queried_object()->term_id );
$cat_parents = get_category_parents( get_category( $cat->parent ), true, ‘<span class=”sep”></span>’ );

if ( 0 < $cat->parent && ! is_wp_error( $cat_parents ) )
echo ‘<span class=”breadcrumbs-ancestor cat-parents”>’ . $cat_parents . ‘</span>’;
echo $before . single_cat_title( ”, false ) . $after;

}

    Anyone from Automattic have a comment?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Moderator Kathryn Presner

    (@zoonini)

    Hi @aparentdesign – I’m running Big Brother 1.1.0 with WordPress 4.8.1 and the breadcrumbs work fine on both category and tag archive pages.

    Could you please verify that you’re running the latest version of Big Brother (1.1.0)? If not, please download the latest copy from https://wordpress.com/theme/big-brother and let me know how it goes. Thanks!

    Thread Starter aparentdesign

    (@aparentdesign)

    Hi Kathryn,

    We checked for an update when we noticed the bug 7/27/17, and the theme we downloaded from the above link was version 1.0.11, same as what we had installed. Changelog from that version ends at Oct 29 2015. I just downloaded another copy today and that version is 1.1.0 and Changelog has all kinds of 2016/2017 entries. Looks like functions.php was updated with a breadcrumbs fix Aug 31, 2017. Maybe someone saw our earlier posts!

    We will give the new version a shot, thank you!

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by aparentdesign.
    Moderator Kathryn Presner

    (@zoonini)

    Let me know if that does the trick! We did update breadcrumb code across several themes a while back, so hopefully this fixes it for you.

    Moderator Kathryn Presner

    (@zoonini)

    Maybe someone saw our earlier posts!

    If you need any help with Big Brother in the future, please add the wpcom-theme tag to the tags area and we’ll be able to spot it more easily that way. (Looks like someone did that on this thread, which is how it came to my attention.)

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