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It appears to have fixed the issue. The error/warning messages no longer appear and I was able to individually ‘block’ a plugin that I didn’t want updated. I’ll keep you posted if anything else occurs.

First, thanks for your responses. Truly appreciated!

Yes, I figured the same thing. Something is stripping the list tags completely. The only way I could get them to stick was to use inline CSS which takes precedent over external.

Unfortunately, in order to determine if it was the plugin or not, I had to replace yours with another. Once it was ruled out that the plugin(s) were the cause then I simply moved forward with adding the inline CSS. Also, the 2nd plugin required a purchase so once I did that I was pretty much stuck and too far invested time wise to revert back to yours. However, I thought yours was more capable of providing what the clients need in regards to administration.

I’m actually using a different plugin at the moment. But, it was also doing the same thing initially, removing any list formatting. So, what I had to do was write a bunch of inline CSS for the lists in order for them to maintain a ul typical format. For some reason both plugins were stripping out the code if there wasn’t any CSS included.

This is an interesting conversation because i’m really interested in learning the structure of all the components that make up a CPT.

Here’s an example of what I envision how CPT’s work. I’ve used many plugins on WordPress projects that enable the site to have ecommerce. A store, basically. Typically the store plugin creates a CPT, usually called “Products”. Within that menu section of the admin it also contains “Product Categories” which, when created, are totally separate from the regular ‘post’ categories (or, ‘blog’ categories).

This gives me the impression that one can create CPT’s and CPT categories. But i’m probably confusing the CPT categories with taxonomies. It’s fuzzy how they connect. But, again, in looking at ecommerce plugins like Woocommerce, they have the CPT to add a ‘product’ and assign it to a ‘product category’. How can this be emulated in the real world??

My CPT was set for Posts and Category capabilities. That’s why it’s a bit confusing, I mistook that to mean that I could make categories specific to the CPT and separate from the regular blog post categories.

Since I couldn’t continue burning up time to figure this out I simply switched to Advanced Custom Fields plugin and made a special page template for bulbs to hold and display the custom field data.

Here’s what it looks like: https://www.nativeled.com/par-lamps/rsl-par-30c-energy-star-lamp/

Originally I wanted to make the bulb ‘types’ into categories and the CPT of “bulbs” would be assigned to their respective category. Instead I just modified the menu so the top element was the type of bulb.

Yes, makes perfect sense. And, in checking, that’s what it does. It’s querying for ‘posts’. This brings up a new question, what would be my changes to that query? The name of the CPT? As in ‘bulbs’? And, would it automatically filter based upon the category ID clicked on?

And thank you for your quick response!

Hope you don’t mind me jumping in here, but I think I have this same issue or, more appropriately, same question.

I’m using your plugin to create a CPT called Bulbs. We’re going to offer replacement light bulbs of various types. There are several of each type. Normally this would lead me to believe that I would create ‘categories’ representing the types and add a new ‘bulb’ and assign it to the proper ‘category’. Which is what i’ve attempted to do. So, I have the following:

CPT named Bulbs
Need for categories such as
A Lamps
PAR Lamps
T8 Lamps
etc.

And, the ability to add ‘bulbs’ that would display within those categories. In the CPT setup I chose the checkbox next to Categories which then displayed Categories in the Bulbs menu section. I then added my list of Categories only to find out those also extend to the regular Posts categories as well (in other words, the categories I created show in both the Bulbs / Categories and Posts / Categories areas. I thought they would be specific to just Bulbs).

The goal is to have the bulb categories displayed in the main site menu (A Lamps | PAR Lamps | etc. | etc.)

However, what’s happening is when adding those categories to the menu and clicking on them, no results display. This is where i’m totally confused, how to connect the CPT to a categorical display.

I’ve created a special post template that displays various custom fields. That part is taken care of. The part that is whacking me out is the association to a category to get a product list display.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated!

I’m sticking with the older version. It’s obvious the ‘new’ owners have an agenda to restrict the plugin in order to force the ‘Pro’ version purchase.

You’re right, NGG is sinking to a slow death.

FYI, by turning off the image display option the dropdown appears. If images are on, the dropdown will not appear in https mode.

I”m having this same issue so I just thought i’d report on it as well so you’d know it’s not an isolated issue.

The dropdown does not display when the address is https. The http works fine. Unfortunately the site needs to be secure due to a built in shopping cart system as well.

I’ll look forward to a fix.

Ok, an update. It turns out it was one of my other suspicions, where it was clashing with another plugin. I replaced that plugin with another one that uses no javascript or jquery and the issue appears to be resolved.

Thanks again for your help. I’ll let you know if anything else surfaces.

I run a whole bunch of WordPress sites on this server without issue and use your plugin for each one. This is the first incident of this occurring so i’m going through a process of elimination to determine the cause.

What i’ll do next is deactivate all plugins, leave yours activated and see when it breaks by activating the others individually.

I’ll report back.

First, I really thank you for your immediate help. Much appreciated!

I did run that query and 0 results were found. Unfortunately.

I see a bunch of crap in the tables pertaining to this:

_site_transient_timeout_browser_11cb7ba63b8b1cca99 blah blah

There’s a hundred or more of those at least.

I did try it… it basically times out and goes kaput.

Was working fine until the update. Any change I can just get the previous version? Or, find the issue as to why it’s struggling here?

Also, FYI, we do have Jetpack installed. Sometimes plugins conflict with it.

Quick update, I did change the wp-config.php to add the following:

define(WP_MAX_MEMORY, ’64’);

Or whatever the tag was. Now it shows the 64 Mbyte and 30.55 usage respectively.