Version 3.1.3 Obliterates Theme Settings

  • Installing this update wiped out previous theme settings on multiple sites. What were you thinking? Don’t do this with future updates. EVER.

    DO NOT REPLACE previously chosen sub-themes.

    DO NOT DELETE or remove previously chosen heading and menu settings.

    Didn’t you guys test this update?

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  • Thread Starter sffandom

    (@sffandom)

    As I review sites I find that some have not been reset. I am not sure but I think it may be connected to whether the old theme settings were saved in the WordPress database. If we saved them in the database (I think) then the old theme settings were retained. (ON EDIT: Nope. See below.)

    On at least one multisite only the root host’s theme was lost. Subdomain theme settings were retained.

    ON EDIT:

    Okay, found a site where the settings were not saved and the theme remained intact through the update.

    We used a plugin, WP-Optimize, on some of these sites to clean up the database. That is the only recent change on these sites that I can think of (since the February 18 update). There is no detectable pattern so far. We have not been working on these sites very much in February.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by sffandom.
    Thread Starter sffandom

    (@sffandom)

    Final note for the night. I have checked several other sites where we used WP-OPTIMIZE and they did not lose their theme settings. I have no idea of what triggered the loss of theme settings on several sites, but they all use Weaver Xtreme, they all had the latest version, and we did not do anything to the theme settings in February.

    Please report in details in the Weaver Forum, as this one is not monitored.
    https://forum.weavertheme.com/

    There is nothing known in the last version 3.1.3 that would cause loss of setting.
    If anything it implemented a safety feature to avoid a problem that was found in an earlier version and that could cause loss of settings.

    The issue is explained in the guide article below
    https://guide.weavertheme.com/host-configuration-php-max_input_vars/

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