Minify HTML causes some posts not to load

Hello,
Just to confirm, is this the post you are having issues with?
https://distanceparent.org/long-distance-parenting/what-long-distance-parenting-is-and-is-not/

Yup. That’s the one. I did just go through and edit every block as html to look for anything weird and there is no html save one link and paragraphs.

In my work on the site today, I had a few other pages that weren’t displaying and when I turned off minify, those are all working now as well. They are :
* https://distanceparent.org/page/10/ – on this one, there are three posts that have black diamonds with question marks (so it looks like they have characters that aren’t rendering)… but if you click on the post, those don’t appear – and in the html of those posts there are no strange characters or complex html.
* https://distanceparent.org/page/8/ – I can’t find anything amiss here
* https://distanceparent.org/tag/travel-expenses/ – same as the first one

https://distanceparent.org/page/9/ and 7 and 11 work just fine… it’s just these specific pages.

If I turn off html minification, they load fine. If I turn it back on, even with inline css and javascript disabled, these pages don’t load.

It has to be something particular to the contents because every other similar post or archive page loads fine. However, I did try wiping out the entire content area and replaced it with asdf, verified there was no extraneous html, published and it still wouldn’t load. And of course, I have emptied all cache so many times.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Carrie.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Carrie.

Hello,

As we understand that you need to disable HTML Minify in order for your website to display the content properly, But we need HTML Minify Enabled in order to inspect your page and check what might be causing this issue.
Otherwise, you should provide a copy test website.

I am happy to enable it temporarily if I know when! I don’t want to leave it enabled while you are not looking at it. When would be a good day/time?

Hello,
It really depends on your timezone
When is the most convenient for you?

Anytime 7AM-7PM Pacific Standard Time today thru Thursday. I could leave minify on between those times tomorrow (Wednesday), if that works for you?

Hello,
Yes sure. Leave the minify on and we will inspect the page.

Will do. I did just update to the latest new version of the plugin, turned on html minify and tried it and it still did not work. A view source on the affected pages when html minify is turned on is just empty. It shows the line 1 line number and nothing else.

Hello,
Can you please add the following in:
wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/lib/Minify/Minify/HTML.php replacing lines 346 and 347 with
$m[2] = preg_replace( '/([a-z0-9]=)\'([^"\'\\s=]+[^"\'\\s=\\/])\'(\\s(?!\\/)|>)/i', '$1$2$3', $m[2] );

$m[2] = preg_replace( ‘/([a-z0-9]=)”([^”\’\\s=]+[^”\’\\s=\\/])”(\\s(?!\\/)|>)/i’, ‘$1$2$3’, $m[2] );`

See if the issue persists.

That fixed it! Thank you so very much!

Hello @indigohat,

Glad to know the issue is resolved.

Hi,
This broke again when I updated to the newest version of the plugin. Is it possible to make this change in the plugin so that doesn’t happen?

Hello @indigohat,

This was not implemented in this release as the issue is depending on the use case.
Please repeat the procedure and add
the following in:
wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/lib/Minify/Minify/HTML.php replacing lines 346 and 347 with
$m[2] = preg_replace( '/([a-z0-9]=)\'([^"\'\\s=]+[^"\'\\s=\\/])\'(\\s(?!\\/)|>)/i', '$1$2$3', $m[2] );

$m[2] = preg_replace( ‘/([a-z0-9]=)”([^”\’\\s=]+[^”\’\\s=\\/])”(\\s(?!\\/)|>)/i’, ‘$1$2$3’, $m[2] );
Thank you for your understanding and your patience.

Hi,

I did fix it with the code you provided last time – is this something I will need to do after every update or will it be added to the plugin?

Carrie