Help! Conflict with CPT permalink

Hello @fibrojedi,

Thank you for contacting the support.

Can you please confirm if you are duplicating your posts instead of creating a new one manually?

Looking forward to helping you.

No, I have no need to duplicate posts. The one in question is updated every year, but always on the same URL.

Hello @fibrojedi,

Assuming you are using the latest version of all the plugins and the themes (please update if not yet), it would seem like a conflict with one of the plugins or the theme you are using.

To determine that, please follow this troubleshooting guide:
https://rankmath.com/kb/check-plugin-conflicts/

Here is a video you can follow as well:

Only the site admin would know and your users won’t be affected by this troubleshooting.

Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping you.

Hey,

Oh, it definitely will be. The problem is that it’s a CPT that I’ve developed a mini plugin for. But I couldn’t see anything in my code that could have had that effect on a non-CPT post.

I’ll have to keep looking. Since I resaved the CPT posts, the issue hasn’t come up, but that’s not the same as having identified and fixed it! I’ll get back to you if/when other questions crop up.

Thanks,

FJ

Hello @fibrojedi,

Let us know if the issue appears again so we can investigate this further.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch in case you need our assistance with anything else in the meantime.

Thank you.

Yes, it’s happening constantly at the moment and I cannot figure out why. I’ve tried all sorts of tweaks/changes.

My current save post function is (showing just saving one custom field)

function mounts_save_data($post_id){
 if(!isset($_POST['post_type']) || $_POST['post_type']!= "custom_type"){
      return;
   }
   /* extra checks */
   if($post->post_type !== 'custom_type'){
     return;
   }
  if(isset($_POST['mounts_year'])){
   update_post_meta($_POST['post_ID'], 'mounts_year', $_POST['mounts_year']);
  }
  return $post_id;
}
add_action('save_post_custom_type','mounts_save_data',101,2); // to be ahead of RankMath's update_post_info()

The last line did not help or hinder the process.

What happens when I save a custom post type is that RankMath then takes the slug of the CPT and then applies it to another post that is not a CPT.

I’ve checked

• The post_ID is correct before update_post_meta() is triggered
• $_POST['post_ID'] and $post->post_id and $post_id agreed. They did.
• Deleting a CPT and recreating it did not fix it.
• The value saved on the CPT but also on other posts. The URL slug changed on at least two other posts within the RankMath panel.

NB: the slug is not automatically saved as wrong, but when a non-CPT post is edited, the RankMath preview shows the slug of the CPT, which then gets saved if the post is saved (and if I haven’t manually changed it back).

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Fibro Jedi. Reason: Extra details added

I’m going to try your plugin approach for disabling plugins just for admin. I even made a new function to ONLY save that one field and the same behaviour occurred.

function mounts_save_data_NEW($post_id, $post){
  // bail out if this is an autosave
     if ( defined( 'DOING_AUTOSAVE' ) && DOING_AUTOSAVE ) {
         return;
     }

     // bail out if this is not an event item
     if ( 'custom_type' !== $post->post_type ) {
         return;
     }
     if(isset($_POST['mounts_year'])){
       update_post_meta($post_id, 'mounts_year', $_POST['mounts_year']);
     }
}
add_action('save_post_custom_type','mounts_save_data_NEW',10,3);

The only other symptom (as well as the Rank Math panel showing the wrong slug) is that the above field also saves on other non-CPT posts, which it shouldn’t, so something else is messed up somewhere.

Oddly, this doesn’t occur on my localhost version of my site but does on the live one. I’ll try your admin-plugin-disable thing and see what comes out the other end.

Well that didn’t work. I enabled the troubleshooting mode, got redirected to the dashboard, did a log out and back in…and nothing had changed.

So your plugin is incompatible with my site, apparently. I’ll find another way.

Right, I have found the cause – and as I said in my first opening post, it wasn’t caused by RankMath. I’ve turned off the thing causing it as it’s not a high-priority feature. But it means this thread is closed – sorry for bothering you all with it.

Thanks.

Hello @fibrojedi,

We are glad that you were able to resolve the issue. If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

Thank you.