Spots on Pages are blank, and Generating Bad Edit links, and drafts as of 4.0.1

I have the same problem. All my spots from short codes are replaced with “Click here to edit Spot id=”N”. (Replace N with ID number).

Everytime I view or preview the page a new spot i automaticly created called ”N″ – Draft. If I delete the Draft spot and empty the trash it is created again when I view or preview my page.

The “Click here to edit Spot id=”N” links to https://domain.top/wp-admin/post.php?post=428&post_type=spot&action=edit (I removed my actual domain in the link).

I’ve rolled out a new version (1.3.2) that should fix this issue.

The changes in 4.0.1 also included something that made quotes after a number different from normal quotes. The assumption being that they’re always to denote feet/inches.

The spot’s short code has to run very late in the content process to avoid making a mess of other plug-in and to avoid the same plug-ins making a mess of the spot. So when it came to the parsing the short code the spot ID was now wrapped in mismatched quotes. I’ve added something to fix the quote issue for the short code.

I’ve also added some extra checks in the short code that’ll ensure that the ID is always a numeric value so future breaks will just cause the spot to vanish rather than leave broken fragments and possibly causing confusion.

Thanks for quick response!

At first this did not solve the problem for me. The spots still didn’t show up. They vanish completely (as you describe).

But your explanation about the quotes helped me. I simply removed the quotes!

Works without the quotes:
[icitspot id=70]

When I insert a short code with be button “Insert a spot” the output now include a space after the last quote like in the example below:

[icitspot id=”70″ ]

I can’t get the short codes to work with any kind of quotes. Tried with single ‘ and double “.

I installed a fresh WP 4.0.1 on a development server with spots 1.3.2 for some testing. The spots have the same extra space afther the quote but everyting works fine even with the quotes. Same WP and spot version on both machines. Swedish WP. Strange, but they work on my main site now, thanks!

Thanks for your response! Spots are working great on my wordpress build now, thank you.

Thank you maglet!

I am having the same problem with the quotes and the extra space. My Spot disappeared from my home page. When I added the spot in again the blank space was there. removing it did not help.

Thanks to this thread I took out the quotes as well and now the spot displays properly.

The spots do not seem to have the same problem when embedded through the widget. Those are still working.

Now if only there was a way to see which pages contain spots so I could fix them all…

I’ve rolled out another version of spots that should fix this. Sometimes WordPress would have the quotes converted to their html entities and sometimes it would convert then to the numeric equivalent. Shouldn’t be a problem any more.

You may need to go to the spots settings page and change the cache time down to 0 for the fix to show up immediately.