Andrei Draganescu

Hi @motivmedia

Sorry to hear about the last minute action that you were forced into because of the update, that is unfortunate.

As @johnstonphilip mentions, deciding between opt-in and opt-out of features is very hard. This is so mostly because the notion of “perfect backwards compatibility”, in an ecosystem as large as WordPress, is an immense undertaking. So, many a time “backwards compatibility bugs” will appear even without new features being introduced, but even moreso when there are new features introduced.

Nevertheless, your post made me want to ask you: how would you prefer to hear about incoming major updates in WordPress so that you know about them ahead of time? This plugin for instance existed way before WordPress 5.8!

– An admin notice?
– An admin notice, but only in the affected area?
– A dashboard widget to check?
– Other ideas?

Thank you!

Howdy @soupbowl

Sorry to hear about the trouble ??

until I can figure out why it’s not working

If you do figure out what the problem appears to be, opening a bug report (issue) would be immensely helpful,

Thank you!

Hi @fitnsexy

I had permission errors with all widgets.

If you can opening a bug report (issue) with this would be very helpful,

Thank you!

Hi there @waltdogdesigns

I never got any heads up the widget area was going to have a makeover.

I wanted to ask how would you be open to receive such “heads up” notifications?

– WordPress Admin notifications in the affected areas?
– A dashboard notification?
– A dashboard widget?
– Other ideas?

Howdy @allan1978

Having them central was an idea initailly but it would become quite intricate and in the end it would become a dashboard of settings for all the WordPress opt out features. Also the name of that plugin is misleading, what if someone wants blocks in widget areas but not blocks in posts? Would they know that is the plugin? What about the other way around?

I now have to install and continually update another plugin on all of my clients sites.

These plugins could be easily managed via automatic updates as they have one clear purpose and have very trustworthy sources.

Also, for widgets at least and if you have the option to edit code, you can opt out without plugins via theme supports or filters?

Howdy @srobrien it should work now although the plugin did have some issues in the past because of some Gutenberg updates. Make sure to update Gutenberg and the plugin to their latest versions first. See if that works.

If that does not work:

– what version of the Gutenberg plugin are you using? You can see that by visiting Plugins > Installed plugins and look at Gutenberg’s row where it says “Version”.
– what version of WordPress are you using? You can see that by logging in and scrolling to the bottom of any admin page and in the right bottom you should see the “Version”.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by Andrei Draganescu. Reason: subscribed

Howdy @drtonyb ,

A lot of the problems in the new Widgets editor have been addressed but there is still a lot to solve. Thank you for testing. As the plugin’s descriptions mentions (perhaps too hidden):

The Gutenberg plugin gives you the latest version of the block editor so you can join us in testing bleeding-edge features, start playing with blocks, and maybe get inspired to build your own.

Hence some of the “bleeding-edge features” are prone to have in progress work, and the goal is to collect useful feedback from real world scenarios. Your use of the Gutenberg plugin and reporting of problems IS part of the testing ??

When attempting to update such well established parts of WordPress early feedback is required, that is why the Widgets editor is the default in the plugin. Other features are hidden in the plugin behind an experimental flag, but eventually they too will become a default of the Gutenberg plugin.

Now, back to the recent issue, is this happening while using this plugin ?

Howdy @saladgoat I believe the caption length in the gallery can be handled by some CSS. You can add custom CSS in the Customizer > Additional CSS panel of the WordPress admin. You can try this:

.wp-block-gallery .blocks-gallery-image figcaption, .wp-block-gallery .blocks-gallery-item figcaption {
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
}

Howdy @seniceguy are the images being uploaded and the media library doesn’t display them? I mean can you see the images if you browse the directories on the server itself? What error do you get when you try to delete an old image?

Howdy @overtheocean I visited your website and it seems your opacity problem is solved?

One way to edit a copy of an image is to download the image, using the image’s File URL, then uploading it again and editing the copy.

In WordPress 5.6 the function wp_slash_strings_only should not be in /public_html/wp-includes/formatting.php as it is deprecated, so it looks like an update that went wrong.

Try a rollback plugin that would allow you to downgrade. I would advise against manually deleting files and folders as usually this is exactly why auto updates will fail in the future. Usually when files are uploaded via FTP for instance, the permissions are wrong and the updater cannot do its job right.

Howdy @ketanco ! WordPress has a Trash. If you delete a post if goes to Trash and it can be restored, if then you go into the Trash and click Delete Permanently it is removed from the database forever.

If a post is removed from the database, some of it may be recoverable in other ways:

– from a backup if you had it enabled
– from wayback machine if the website was online for a while

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by Andrei Draganescu.

Hey @muhammadibtehaj are you referring to having different site logos on each page? I don’t think that is possible without some code updates to your themes.

hi @vromans it seems to me that some of your plugins cache the paths to certain folders and then they try to access them on your local setup. I think the best way to have a local mirror is to do:

– make clean default WordPress installation on your local machine
– install on the local version all the plugins you have on the live version
– export all data from the live site
– import the data in your local WordPress

Exporting and importing is not always easy if you have many plugins. There are some plugins that enhance the default exporting of data.

As @sterndata mentioned you should not have caching of any sort enabled on your local website as it only makes developing it harder for no benefit.