Content Disappearing from Tabs

  • Hello,

    I am using your latest release of Page.ly multiedit on a self-hosted WordPress site. The latest version has been deleting content when a tab is switched to another and then switched back.

    Let me explain more fully.

    The default tab will at first show its content. Then, if you click on another tab it will show the content of the tab that you click on. However, if you click back on to the main tab, the content is blank and WP is automatically autosaving the blank content as a revision. Also, if you were to click back on the other tab clicked on previously, it will also be blank.

    According to this other post over on the WordPress support forum: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-pagely-multiedit-tabs-sometimes-load-content-or-are-blank-content-can-be-lost, you had addressed this issue a few years ago but perhaps recent changes to the WP core code has altered your fix. Can you please look into it and see if you have the same issue?

    By the way, we weren’t having this issue until recently when we updated to version 0.9.8.5.

    I appreciate your time and assistance.

    Best,
    Jack

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/pagely-multiedit/

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  • Confirmed, same issue here.

    The most recent update does not fix it for me: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/does-not-work-with-wordpress-41?replies=15

    Plugin Author joshua strebel

    (@joshuastrebel)

    Will take a look. It’s likely a javascript issue. Try this stopgap, I think as long as you click the main tab again before saving it should work. the click on the main tab does a few things to organize and store teh data.

    Not sure if this helps but on one test install I was playing with this on, this issue only happens if Advanced Custom Fields is activated. Deactivated all is good. Unfortunately, no console errors are reported when it does occur for me with ACF activated, which is strange.

    This is with ACF Pro – 5.2.5. However, I think it’s happening with ACF 4.4, but I can’t get access to the site I need test that until tomorrow.

    Confirmed. Same issues when using MultiEdit + ACF 4.4.2.

    Also, for me, clicking on main tab before saving is not helping, the content is lost after save.

    Update to previous post: with ACF 5.2.5 PRO I just noticed any page template with MultiEdit isn’t even saving, the update icons just keeps spinning. The content disappears too when you switch tabs of course, but page never saves. Sorry!

    Plugin Author joshua strebel

    (@joshuastrebel)

    Yeah, so we are swapping the content from the editor, into a custom field placeholder. So if ACF is changing in the middle there, I can see why it may break.

    When I get a chance I will change the model to just store the content in a js object, instead of copy pasta the actual text.

    But really, we want to save it in a custom field so the data is associated with the post and is not lost if you deactivate the plugin.

    Awesome, thanks for the quick reply. Hopefully this is something you can look at shortly so the folks with this issue can get back to editing their site, right now they can’t edit any content due to this bug.

    Cheers!

    Has there been any sort of progress/update on this issue? I just came across this plugin and experienced the same issue after installing ACF. I hope there is a fix, I’ve spent hours already setting all my pages up and creating the content. I hope I don’t need to find a different solution that plays well with ACF.

    Thanks.

    @csnodgr2 – Why can’t you just use ACF to create field type(s) for the content you’re trying to use Pagely Multiedit for? This way you can remove Pagely Multiedit altogether.

    Tell ACF to show your fields on that certain template/page/etc and call it a day.

    I don’t understand why you’re trying to get them to play together, when in my mind it’s really a matter of using 1 or the other.

    Thanks Jason,

    It just dawned on me that ACF works that way. I’m converting my page templates now and setting up the ACF to work with each. Thanks.

    Plugin Author joshua strebel

    (@joshuastrebel)

    Put it up on github, pull requests welcome.

    https://github.com/strebel/multiedit-plugin

    Happy to take patches and deploy back into .org plugin repo

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