Bug affecting Admin Menu Collapse

Bump. Can anyone else with this plugin confirm the same issue on your site? I’ve replicated it on two sites but they are both on the same server. I want to see if this is a server compatibility issue (PHP version or something).

Just try to collapse the admin bar (bottom option on the left side toolbar) on the WP Admin back-end… then try to expand it again. If it isn’t working as expected, disable this plugin and try it again. Once you have it where you want it, re-enable this plugin.

Can you replicate the issue?

I found your post because it started happening to me today, I tried changing the mfold option but it didn’t seem to work. Will let you know if I can get it working.

Try changing the mfold option to &mfold=t, that worked for me! Thanks.

So before doing the change to mfold=t, did you find the same repeatable issue being caused by this plugin? Or was your site doing this regardless of this plugin?

Also, any idea what the t option means? f obviously means fold. 0 means disabled… what’s t?

So… still no reply from the plugin author. Bug still exists. Can anyone else confirm?

Yea just tested this and caused the stuck menu, deactivated WPEC and got it back. The plugin authors appear to answer easy questions but ignore the difficult ones…

Hi all,

We’ve logged this issue here: https://github.com/wp-e-commerce/WP-e-Commerce/issues/2028

Please note: we do the best we can with the time we have on these support forums. It’s a free, open source plugin – and support provided in these forums is provided for free, as we are able to provide it. Of course we answer the questions that we’re able to answer easily and quickly first. ??

Just confirming that I am having the same problem. Menu collapse not working as described by milkboy31. I tried the same troubleshooting; disabling/enabling each plugin. With this plugin enabled, menu collapse is broken; with it disabled, it works fine.

Justin:
Thanks for working on this issue. Looking forward to a resolution – clients are not happy with a broken admin menu!

Milkboy31 and stevotivo:
Is your &mfold workaround working while the authors try to fix this? Can you supply more details? Where do I apply this workaround? Thanks!

1 – Edit wp-admin/admin-header.php with Notepad++
2 – Line 139, change
if ( get_user_setting('mfold') == 'f' )
to
if ( get_user_setting('mfold') == 't' )
3 – Save, upload file on server

done ??

If ‘t’ doesn’t work, try ‘o’ or ‘0’ instead

Thanks drageoco, the above trick worked. I changed (‘mfold’) == ‘t’ That fixed it.

Problem happened again after a WP update (to v4.5.2). Found another solution here : https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/166599/how-to-make-admin-sidebar-menu-always-be-collapse-by-code

To make the admin sidebar menu always be collapsed, try adding the following code in the functions.php file of your child theme, or add it in your site using a plugin like Code Snippets, or Add Actions and Filters.

global $user_ID;
$user_fold = get_user_meta( $user_ID, 'wp_user-settings', true );
$exp_array = explode( "&", $user_fold );
$search_array = array_search( "mfold=o", $exp_array );
if ( $search_array ) {
    $exp_array[ $search_array ] = "mfold=f";
    $exp_array = implode( "&", $exp_array );
    update_user_meta( $user_ID, 'wp_user-settings', $exp_array );
}

Hey guys.
There will be a 3.11.3 release for WP eCommerce that should adress that very weird bug .
Should be out soon

We have a site still on 3.11.1 and got hit by this – I ended up updating wp_user-settings in the wp_usermeta table in the database.

Or you can add this in the function.php file

function make_menu_unfolded() {
    print '<script>jQuery(document).ready(function(){jQuery("body").removeClass("folded")})</script>';
}
add_filter('admin_head', 'make_menu_unfolded');