Meta boxes not functioning properly on some pages

  • benmcd0nald

    (@benmcd0nald)


    6 years ago

    Hey, I’m tearing my hair out with a problem on a wordpress site and trying to get an idea on what’s causing it.

    It uses woocommerce and a whole array of plugins. The problem is that on a number of pages ‘products’ and in actual ‘pages’ for example meta boxes arent working. They are either randomly hidden or wont activate or resize. It also applies to the ‘screen options’ and ‘help’ pulldowns

    I had this problem a few days back and thought I fixed it by doing a reinstall of wordpress. Previously I had tried deactivating all plugins, reinstalling woocommerce and purging a load of data (it’s a production site). After the reinstall of wordpress it start working again but I may have misunderstood what action fixed it.

    Anyway, it’s back and I’m not sure why. I’ve also noticed it doesn’t happen on Firefox. I’ve also realised it doesnt happen if I change theme. When I look at it in Chrome I get the below error…..if I’m understanding properly it’s a javascript thing but reinstalling backups doesn’t seem to be able to touch it.

    Can anyone please point me in the right direction of where/how to start investigating the issue? I’m a bit upset as I’m so close to the site being ready and it keeps breaking ??

    Thanks
    Ben

    jquery.js?ver=1.12.4:2: Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: https://munkeykeys.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=wc_order_status
    at Function.fa.error (jquery.js?ver=1.12.4:2)
    at fa.tokenize (jquery.js?ver=1.12.4:2)
    at fa.select (jquery.js?ver=1.12.4:2)
    at Function.fa (jquery.js?ver=1.12.4:2)
    at Function.jQuery.find (jquery-migrate.js?ver=1.4.1:290)
    at n.fn.init.find (jquery.js?ver=1.12.4:2)
    at n.fn.init.jQuery.fn.find (jquery-migrate.js?ver=1.4.1:677)
    at jQuery.fn.init.n.fn.init (jquery.js?ver=1.12.4:2)
    at new jQuery.fn.init (jquery-migrate.js?ver=1.4.1:241)
    at n (jquery.js?ver=1.12.4:2)

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    That error is referring to something about Font Awesome. So it could be in your theme or in a plugin that uses it.

    Thread Starter benmcd0nald

    (@benmcd0nald)

    ok, so that’s interesting (thanks Joy). I think I have two things that might use font awesome.

    1) plugin called ‘custom order status’ but this error remains when it’s deactivated and that plugin seems to work fine…..though it looks like it might be mentioned in the error message also

    2) Visual composer….which funnily enough should probably appear on all the pages that seem to be effected. However a) I’ve updated this and b) It was working fine earlier today

    I’m not sure how to work out the exact issue the error has and I cant quite figure how that would suddenly start causing problems on a site that was working ok before

    I’m baffled and lost ??

    Thread Starter benmcd0nald

    (@benmcd0nald)

    slightly baffled and lost now…

    I managed to get the site back on. That custom order status was putting up a notice to read the documentation and once I dismissed that everything worked ok again.

    In an ideal work I’d like to get to the bottom of if it was something to do with that so I can contact the developer but mostly I’m just glad to be up and running again and will be try and spend a bit of time looking into the code more

    Thanks all (I hopefully wont be back on this topic)

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