Broken Press Release Links & Empty Press Coverage Page

  • Resolved gregsgraphics

    (@gregsgraphics)


    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    We installed the plugin and allowed the install of the initial starter pages. However, we’ve run into a couple of issues:

    1. We can view the “Press Releases” feed page, but when you click on each of the individual links, you get 404 “page not found” errors. In the settings for ‘Press Release’, we noticed that it includes the main directory of the website (which we would rather it not do). If we change the URLs for each of the individual press releases to include that main page directory, they work fine.

    2. We can get the main “Press Coverage” page to load, but none of the individual press coverages show, just an empty page.

    Any thoughts on what might be happening? Our site is https://www.chefgorji.com
    Thanks in advance.

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  • Plugin Contributor farinspace

    (@farinspace)

    Hopefully I can help you out …

    It is required that you set a URL for press releases and coverage (Go to: Nooz > Settings > Press Releases and/or Press Coverage).

    An empty value would not work.

    The follow are good examples:
    a) news
    b) news/press-releases

    I’ve taken a look at the site, let me know how you have things setup as i see the following URLs:

    /news-3/press-releases/
    /wp/news/press-releases/chef-gorji-serves-lone-star-delicacies-go-texan-restaurant-round/

    is “/wp/” a dedicated installation of wordpress? If you could let me know what your setup looks like I can try to recreate and debug what might be going on with the URL rewrites.

    Plugin Contributor farinspace

    (@farinspace)

    Another recommendation, after you make a URL update is to go to Settings > Permalink > Save Changes .. this will flush and clear the rewrite cache (The plugin should do this automatically, but you can do the above to be sure).

    Thread Starter gregsgraphics

    (@gregsgraphics)

    Thanks for getting back to us quickly.

    It is required that you set a URL for press releases and coverage (Go to: Nooz > Settings > Press Releases and/or Press Coverage).

    An empty value would not work.

    The follow are good examples:
    a) news
    b) news/press-releases

    We do have those fields filled in – “news/press-releases” for Press Releases, and “news/press-coverage” for Press Coverage. In fact I think they were already filled in.

    is “/wp/” a dedicated installation of wordpress?

    Yes. ‘WP’ is where the WP site is installed. It’s probably not a big deal to most people, but isn’t showing the main website directory in the URL a security concern? I’m not a security expert, of course.

    What other info/settings do you need?

    Thread Starter gregsgraphics

    (@gregsgraphics)

    farinspace, have you had a chance to look into this? See above reply to your questions. Thanks.

    Plugin Contributor farinspace

    (@farinspace)

    Apologies for the late reply, I have tried to recreate a similar installation (e.g. with WordPress installed in a subdirectory), but have been unable to recreate the issue.

    If you would like I can have a look at your installation, you can contact me at: support at mightydigital dot com

    Plugin Contributor farinspace

    (@farinspace)

    Let me know if you are still having issues, again it would probably be best if I have a look at your installation so that I may troubleshoot as well as learn from what may be going on .. you can contact me at: support at mightydigital dot com

    Thread Starter gregsgraphics

    (@gregsgraphics)

    Have you had a chance to look at this? We sent you login info almost two weeks ago and haven’t heard anything. Let us know if you are unable to help with this. Thanks.

    Thread Starter gregsgraphics

    (@gregsgraphics)

    farinspace,

    It’s now been a week since we sent you a request to look into our issue with your plugin. Please let us know if we are ever going to get any help with this, so we will know to start looking for other options.

    Thanks

    Plugin Contributor farinspace

    (@farinspace)

    Hi Greg, my apologies for not getting back to this sooner, you were second in the queue of another support request.

    The account that you sent over is pretty restrictive, my hands are tied. Other than viewing I can not view settings, adjust settings, view/edit code (via the editor) etc.

    If you are concerned with giving “Administrator” access, I would suggest that you create a fresh install of WordPress and then install Nooz. You can then continue to troubleshoot from there.

    I am guessing there may be some sort of conflict (third party plugin). Our last support request was just that, a bug in another plugin.

    I would also recommend using a “staging” install if chefgorji.com is currently a production install. This would help with troubleshooting and prevent disruption during troubleshooting (e.g. turing things on and off, etc).

    Thread Starter gregsgraphics

    (@gregsgraphics)

    Hi farinspace,

    We have changed you user status to admin. Please feel free to do the testing/settings/code that you normally do. However, please let us know beforehand if you are going to turn off any plugins.

    Plugin Contributor farinspace

    (@farinspace)

    From the list of enabled plugins, I am going to turn off all plugins and then incrementally turn one on at a time .. to find the conflict.

    Hence having a staging site is ideal, again we recommend it.

    Do let me know how you would like for me to proceed?

    Plugin Contributor farinspace

    (@farinspace)

    Solved with some vigilance …

    I checked the page that the press-coverage was setup “https://www.chefgorji.com/wp/news-4/press-coverage” and found that the shortcode was NOT in place.

    [nooz type="coverage"]

    I would also recommend that you adjust your URL/permalinks.

    What likely happened:

    By default, Nooz, will create the pages required to show press releases and coverage (Nooz prompts the user for this). These pages include the shortcodes necessary to display the press releases and coverage lists.

    It is likely that someone editing the site (you or another person) moved the page, created another page and did not place the shortcode correctly.

    Nooz attempts to mitigate the above and other issues, by on-boarding the user and auto creating the initial pages required. Additionally Nooz provides contextual help (e.g. the Help tab in the upper right) to assist and educate the user about the plugin, its

    Moving forward:

    I will look into other ways we can continue to simplify the UI and provide better guidance to those who need it.

    Thread Starter gregsgraphics

    (@gregsgraphics)

    Looks like it’s been fixed… thanks so much for your time and looking into it. We have been doing some revisions to our navigation/menus, so it’s possible something there caused a page break (unintentionally breaking the press release/coverage pages). Regarding plugins, it does seem like updating them and keeping them from fighting with each other is a full time job. We’ll let you know if we have any issues or questions.

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