Query string parameters being stripped and we don’t know why

The last thing that was suggested to us by our host was to update WPBakery, which seemed to have an outdated javascript composer….compiler? We did that and its still messed up ??

>> he only thing left that I can think of right now is that I used WP Super Minify a couple months ago….maybe that could have done something? <<

What happens when you remove that plugin?

I removed it and its still a problem. Thats the thing. I used the plugin kind of unconventionally. Basically any time I made major changes to the site I turned it on for a bit and then deactivated it….thinking it had done its job

but I dont know if its effects linger after its uninstalled

What happens if you disable the Sucuri CDN and allow direct access to your site?

Also, check your Sucuri settings. By default, it removes query strings:

See https://i.imgur.com/lpQRMmL.png

I’ve disabled the Sucuri CDN, but sucuri says that you cant turn off caching of certain static assets like javascript. They gave me a link to clear the cache though and its still a problem :-(….I can’t find the area you’re refering to in your picture. and the internet says that section that you’ve circled is just for hiding the wordpress version?

here’s what they said about this:
The firewall isn’t capable of filtering out query strings out of your code as it is loaded. These query strings are hardcoded inside your actual website code, the firewall would have to be able to dynamically read through your code as it reads the response from the hosting server and filter them out. Which it is not, it is simply not capable of doing this.

To demonstrate that the firewall isn’t doing this, I have used a technique here to connect directly to your hosting server: https://kb.sucuri.net/firewall/Troubleshooting/bypassing-the-proxy-for-testing-and-development
I recommend asking your developers to use that technique if they believe the firewall is responsible since this will bypass the firewall and they can indeed check if the firewall is responsible.

Here are my findings, the code on the hosting server doesn’t contain any query strings:
So the firewall isn’t filtering anything out or performing any caching, the code is simply missing the query strings.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by joeborders.

I don’t know very much at all about coding, but we can see the correct code on the server.

The host confirmed that the correct code is not being shown and advised I update my plugins and try disabling all plugins. Neither of these things solved it. ??

…is there a way to change which functions.php is loaded in a theme? we have a child theme and a child theme 1.0 i am seeing the code we need in child theme, but it is loading like it is in child theme 1.0…….could the site maybe be loading the wrong functions.php?

When you have a child theme, functions.php is loaded in addition to the parent’s functions.php. (Specifically, it is loaded right before the parent’s file.)

but is there a way to define what functions.php file is loaded? or does it just load the one that’s in the folder for the child theme?

It loads both the child and parent theme’s functions.php, as noted above.

Yes, I know, what i mean is, we have the theme and child theme A and child theme B. is it possible that something has been mis-coded so that child theme A is loading child theme B’s functions.php?