Plugin has messed up Posts order

  • Resolved hamsteralliance

    (@hamsteralliance)


    2 years, 11 months ago

    Hello,

    In the WordPress Admin area, under Posts, the default order of the posts is by date, so that the most recently added posts are at the top.

    After installing this plugin that is no longer the case. Even after uninstalling this plugin whatever modification it made has remained.

    I know it’s this plugin because this problem exists in the Sandbox tryout of the plugin. I’m upset that I didn’t notice the problem in the sandbox before installing the plugin, and that uninstalling the plugin doesn’t fix it.

    Even in the sandbox the posts aren’t sorted by Date with newest at the top. If you click the Date column to sort it that way, then click Posts, it’ll go back to not being sorted that way. Whatever this plugin has done has also messed up the sorting in other plugins.

    Where in the code has this plugin made this change? Is it in the database?

    Can you tell me what to search for in the code to fix this, or can I send you my database file, or will you update your plugin to make it fix this upon uninstallation?

    Thank you,

    Jamez

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  • Plugin Author Matthias Günter

    (@mguenter)

    Hey @hamsteralliance !

    Thanks for your message.

    and that uninstalling the plugin doesn’t fix it.

    In general, Real Custom Post Order overwrites the menu_order field for a given wp_posts. This is the default field for using the menu order for WordPress posts.

    Do you have a backup of your wp_posts#menu_order database column?

    Where in the code has this plugin made this change? Is it in the database?

    Yes, it is in the database of wp_posts#menu_orde field. And this is done by inc/sortable/PostSortable.php#updateByIntSequence.

    I just tried to reproduce the issue you mentioned on a fresh WordPress instance, unfortunately I cannot. Can you please share a short screencast video showing the issue on a plain WordPress instance? On the sandbox system, the plugin is installed on sandbox-creation, so I do not have a before-after scenario.

    Regards
    Matthew ??

    Thread Starter hamsteralliance

    (@hamsteralliance)

    Hello!

    Thank you for your prompt reply, I appreciate it.

    Overall the crisis has been averted, haha. I hadn’t made an intentional backup in a few months, but then I remembered that GoDaddy’s hosting makes automatic backups that are separate. I was able to restore that backup and everything seems to be back to normal.

    Have a good day,
    – Jamez

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