Problem with posts, widgets occured Dec. 30

  • Resolved donshirer

    (@donshirer)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    ?????About 1:15pm EST on Dec. 30, while editing our development site, 3/4 of our widgets suddenly disappeared. To recover them, we backed up to a previous version. The widgets came back, but the url’s (Permalinks) of every post were replaced by long character strings and all posts gave ‘too many redirect’ errors. Creating a new post gave the same bad permalink and execution error. This never happened to us before.
    ?????We reloaded WP 4.9.1 and backed up to an earlier version with the same symptoms: pages and widgets ok, every post url messed up. Strange thing is that our public site, which is very similar, works fine, including the posts.
    ?????Were there any changes to WP on the listed date which might have caused this? We are baffled, and would appreciate any suggestions on how to proceed.

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  • Thread Starter donshirer

    (@donshirer)

    After analyzing the transmuted post url’s, we realized that they appear to be hexadecimal representations of the original. We’re still uncertain as to why that occured or how to fix it. The permalink field on the post edit form does not have a way to edit the url, and although we can select it, nothing happens when we attempt to type in a new permalink.

    Thread Starter donshirer

    (@donshirer)

    Running the inspection console after right-clicking on a link to a post (in Chrome) we get what appears to be some javascript with “Uncaught ReferenceError” messages as below:

    jquery-migrate.min.js:2 JQMIGRATE: Migrate is installed, version 1.4.1
    wppa-utils.min.js:1 At: 0:6:58.950 message: wppa-utils.js version 6.6.28 loaded.
    wppa-utils.min.js:1 At: 0:6:58.950 message: wppa.js version 6.7.09 loaded.
    wppa-utils.min.js:1 At: 0:6:58.951 message: wppa-slideshow.js version 6.7.09 loaded.
    wppa-utils.min.js:1 At: 0:6:58.951 message: wppa-ajax-front.js version 6.7.07 loaded.
    wppa-utils.min.js:1 At: 0:6:58.951 message: wppa-popup.js version 6.1.9 loaded.
    wppa-utils.min.js:1 At: 0:6:58.951 message: wppa-touch.js version 6.6.06 loaded.
    princess_ida_650.jpg Failed to load resource: net::ERR_INCOMPLETE_CHUNKED_ENCODING
    wp-fade-in-text-news.js:35 Uncaught ReferenceError: FadeIn_SetFadeLinks is not defined
    at FadeIn_FadeRotate (wp-fade-in-text-news.js:35)
    FadeIn_FadeRotate @ wp-fade-in-text-news.js:35
    29864wp-fade-in-text-news.js:47 Uncaught ReferenceError: FadeIn_bFadeOutt is not defined
    at FadeIn_Ontimer (wp-fade-in-text-news.js:47)
    FadeIn_Ontimer @ wp-fade-in-text-news.js:47
    setInterval (async)
    FadeIn_FadeRotate @ wp-fade-in-text-news.js:32
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    Similar results when we try this with other browsers.
    This is beyond our level of knowledge. Do you think this is a WordPress problem or something wrong with our Server?

    Thread Starter donshirer

    (@donshirer)

    Found part of the problem. Somehow the backup had changed the Settings:Permalinks option to “Custom” whereas it had always been set to “Post Name” since the site was created in 2011. Changing that setting back seems to have fixed most of the post error problems, but we will have to check all of several hundred posts to be sure. Ugh.

    So I am marking this topic fixed, but still unresolved is why the backup changed that, and whether it changed any other settings that will come back to bite us later.

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