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Thank you for the reply. It looks like the culprit is the firewall plugin that I am using. For security reasons, I don’t want to leave that plugin disactivated so I’ll just have to live with the problem.

Hi Sean,

Thanks for the reply; you were absolutely on the money. The theme was missing the call to wp_head(). I’ve fixed it and now everything is fine.

Thanks again,

Ian

I upgraded to WP5.9 and got a ghastly looking splash advertising its arrival. I posted the following on the WP forum:

WTF is the new version doing by screwing up the dashboard on my site? It has changed all the styling and added some wretched balloons to it advertising its presence. How do I get rid of this monstrous instrusion? To say that I am angry with this appalling behaviour is putting it mildly.

This is just unprofessional and childish behaviour by the WordPress management team and we should expect better.

Fortunately, the new version of the plugin has removed the abomination.

I’m in a similar situation to Jeff; I rely heavily on the plugin. I appreciate you’re in a difficult position not of your choosing. Are you talking to WordPress about the implications on existing sites of v5.7? It seems to me that users in our situation (200K+?) should not upgrade to v5.7 until we know what’s happening.

I have similar questions but I totally understand that you can’t answer most of them. However, question 1 seems to be one that can be answered. No sidebar lasts forever but if I don’t want to change anything, will the existing sidebar still work? Is anyone talking to WordPress about this? I have a lot of sidebars based on your plugin and it’s taking a big risk just to await the arrival of v5.7 and then find out that your site doesn’t work anymore.

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the useful reply. I have a couple of additional questions:

1) Where is the redirect_canonical function? Is it somewhere in the core code that is triggered by the mismatch of slugs?

2) Would I be right in supposing that there is a time penalty involved in this situation while the system searches for the right page – so that it is best to make sure that the slugs match?

3) I don’t usually use Chrome. Where in the development tools will I find the 301 redirects that you mention?

Thanks again for your help.

Works brilliantly; thanks a lot.

Best regards.

That’s a pity. Is there, perhaps, a way in which I could ‘fire’ the widget on page load so that the banner is immediately displayed as I would like?

There was a request on here recently (Automatic Translation by rantaro) which looks similar to what I am trying to do. Rantaro wanted the page to be automatically translated; I would like things to stop halfway (so to speak).

Best regards.

Thanks for the reply. I’ve tried your suggestion with different browsers and got different results. The language of the WordPress site is set to English.

Firefox: With the browser language set to French, everything is OK. I also tried it in Italian and that worked as well.

Edge: Browser language was Italian: there was no banner but the widget appeared in Italian.

Chrome: Browser language was Italian: there was no banner and the widget appeared in English.

I’ve made a short video of screenshots of the results which you can see here:

Any ideas?

Best regards.

Thanks, Aamirkhatri, that was it. Phew!

The buck stops here – it’s me. I’m considering removing as much as possible from functions.php and gradually putting stuff back. Is there anywhere else I should be looking?

Steve,

Thank you for your reply. The Twenty themes work OK but the problem is there with my own theme activated and all the plugins deactivated so it looks as if it’s something in the theme itself. I have now found that the problem is more general. It happens with ANY widget that needs input. It wasn’t there in the first versions of the theme so it must be something that I have done since. Any ideas where I should start looking? Maybe anything in functions.php that has to do with sidebars?

I have found out how to do this.

You’re right. I just created a new post (and a new static page) and they worked fine. The problem seems to be with pages I created a couple of weeks ago. These were created on my laptop using an xampp installation of WP and recently transferred to my hoster’s server using the WordPress Importer plugin.

I’ve put a screenshot here.

By the way, is there a way to put an attachment in this forum? I don’t see one. As you will have gathered, I’m pretty new to all this and I appreciate you taking the time to sort me out

Thank you for the tips.