2 bugs: redirects to a post & wp ‘customize’ fails to change

Glad to help:

1) This does not happen by default, as verified on default WP install. Most likely there is some plugin or theme that is doing something or conflicting somehow. Best advice here would be to do some basic troubleshooting. I would be glad to provide a free guide if it will be useful for you.

2) Right on the Theme Switcha homepage, like one paragraph in, there is this Important info:

“This plugin is not needed if you are using the WP Theme Customizer to make changes. In fact, your changes may not be remembered if you try to use Theme Switcha plugin together with the Customizer. Bottom line: use the Customizer to make changes as supported by your theme. Or use the Theme Switcha plugin to make changes to your theme template files. Do NOT use both together at the same time.”

Let me know if any further questions or issues, glad to help.

1) Hi Jeff, well your plugin is not very compatible. I tried many other similar theme selectors plugins, yours is the only one with this error of redirecting to a post.

2) Another old theme selector plugin – written 7 years ago – still works with the latest wordpress, and it is compatible with the WP Theme Customizer aslo. Perhaps you should look at the code for this one?
Reason this is important is that I wanted to check many themes quickly (why else would I need this kind of plugin?) and I also want to see what options are available to the theme. The WP Theme Customizer must be compatible..

one from 7 years ago:
www.ads-software.com/plugins/theme-selector/

another one that does not redirect to a post:
github.com/wpmudev/advanced-theme-switcher

If you want to share specific steps to replicate the issue you are experiencing, I will be glad to investigate asap. Understand however that on default WordPress, Theme Switcha works normally. So will need to know how to trigger it otherwise not much I can do.

For the Customizer, thanks for the links I will check them out and see what’s possible.

*UPDATE- I just DISABLED ALL PLUGINS except Theme Switcha…and it still redirects to a single post.

to clarify – I am using the admin bar part of theme switcha from the front end.

I tried different permalink settings in the WP admin and no change.

Definitely a bug.

to replicate it:
Start from front end.
Start at home page, or a category page – NOT a single blog page.
Use the theme switcha admin bar at the top
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(my default setting for home page is “settings->reading->Your home page displays ->Your latest posts)

cheers

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by ben303.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by ben303.

I am using PHP 7.2, WordPress 5.1.1

That is good infos, thanks! Will investigate this and resolve any issue. Ideally the user should remain on the same page after switching the theme, not redirect to a post. Unless of course they are on a post in the first place.

*update – I have narrowed it down. The redirect error happens on any page with the WP loop: search results, category and archive.

On a single page or single post there is no error.

Just to follow up with this. The issue with the theme-switch menu is resolved in the next plugin update (v2.1). Should be available later today or tomorrow. Thank you @ben303 for reporting.