Help! After years of using the plugin successfully no publications show

Hi,

Please check, if you see a database update message (“A databae update is necessary“) in the “All publications” screen of teachPress in the WordPress backend or under “Settings->teachPress“. If the message is still there, please click on the the “Update to …” link. The version 9 of the plugin requires a new column in the publication database table, which will be added with this database update. If there is a mismatch between the columns in the database table and the columns which the plugin expected, it leads normally to exactly the issues you have noticed.

If this doesn’t help, please check in your database if the table wp_teachpress_pub has a column award (wp_ is the default prefix – could be differentiate if you changed it for your WordPress installation). This is what the database update normally should add.

If this column not exists you can add it manually with the following SQL command (pleas note the table prefix could be differentiate):

ALTER TABLE wp_teachpress_pub ADD award VARCHAR (100) NULL DEFAULT NULL AFTER type

If the column is there and nothing is working, you should try to activate the debugging mode in WordPress: Debugging in WordPress – www.remarpro.com Documentation (WP_DEBUB = true). This should give you the opportunity to see the real error messages.

I hope that helps!

Kind regards,
Michael

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by winkm89.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by winkm89.

Hello,

The list of features on the teachPress plugin page include the following:

Direct data import from NCBI PubMed.

I could find nothing about importing from NCBI PubMed in the teachPress documentation. How do you do this?

Thank you.

David