[Plugin: Simply Exclude] This plugin make all my menus totally blank !!!

@marcoconut,

Yes, it was reported by someone via my blog
https://www.codehooligans.com/projects/wordpress/simply-exclude/#comment-81930

I’m looking into the issue today. I tested on 3.0.x up to 3.1rc3. So not sure if this is something new in 3.1 or what. Will post back when I update a fix. Thanks for your patience.

thanks for your answer.

Marcoconut,

So have tested SE 1.7.9 against WP 3.1 and WP 3.0.5. I’ve setup Genesis, Thesis, TwentyTen and some other themes. I’ve created multiple menus. I’ve create multiple dummy posts, categories and post tags. I simply cannot break the site. Meaning I don’t get a blank screen.

I’ve enabled WP_DEBUG and no errors, warnings etc. reports.

Can you give me an idea on how you have SE setup? Also what menus you have setup? Any custom post types or taxonomies? Those should not matter but thought I would ask.

Best,

Hi,
I’m running WP 3.1 and the Headlines theme from Woothemes. The two menus are the two included with this theme, there is a main menu and a menu called page nav. I don’t have any custom posts or taxonomies there are all “usual” ones.
I don’t know if it can help you but i found a post about the fact that in WP 3.1 there is a know issue about excluding categories (or just chose one like i want to do) from the loop of posts.
I tried to had the code
‘// Exclude category from home
function myFilter($query) {
if ($query->is_home) {
$query->set(‘category__in’,array(564));
}
return $query;
}
add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’,’myFilter’);’
in the functions.php file of my theme, it worked like your plug in, i saw the right category on the front page but, like with your plugin, the menus were broken.

Ooops i didn’t answer about the settings of SE.
All the settings are the basic settings when you install the plug in i’ve just checked “Include Only” instead of Exclude in the manage category exclusions menu in front of the “Front” action name and checked a category (id 564 for me).
In all the other menus of the plugin nothing is checked nor include only or exclude.
And no third party plugin in the “exclude option” part.
Hope it can help.

Marcoconut,

Thanks. Yeah that function is how I first started SE. It was built on that simple logic. Just a fron-tend UI to handle this.

Thanks for the details on the SE settings. Trying to nail this down. Actually just trying to reproduce any errors. I’ll keep you posted.

P-

I am using a modified version of Arras Theme on my website. I have the same problem with this plugin. My menus simply don’t load if the plugin is enabled. It also doesn’t work correctly when told to exclude the category from the category list widget. The only way to exclude a category from the widget category drop down list is to exclude the category from the archives. This doesn’t work very well, as I still want to display some of the categories I set to be excluded.

Same here. Going bacl to version 1.7.8 makes the site running again on WordPress 3.1. So I stay at this version.

SilviuT and KimHbel,

My apologies for issues from my little plugin. As mentioned above I’m still not able to reproduce on any of my development environments. Still reviewing the code. There is only a few lines difference between SE 1.7.8 and 1.7.9

Thanks for you patience.

Anyone still willing to test a hopefully fixed version?

You can download the beta version here
https://www.codehooligans.com/packages/simply-exclude-1.7.9.1-beta.zip

Thanks.

Hello,
I’ve just tried this new version but… it don’t work.
The good news is that my two menus are not broken anymore when i activate the plugin but the plugin don’t do the job, i make my “actu” category “include only” on the front page but nothing happens.
In fact it’s like what happens with the 1.7.8 version for me, menus are ok but no filter.
I hope this will help you findin out the problem.
Thanks for the beta version.

Marcoconut ,

Well, it helps in that the menus are no longer broken. But strange no filtering for you.

Alright found the issue not just guessing now. In old version of WP there was a status flag ‘is_front_page’. That has been replaced by the more correct ‘is_home’. Not sure how long ago that changed. That part of SE is 2 years old.

So another beta
https://www.codehooligans.com/packages/simply-exclude-1.7.9.1-beta2.zip

Hello,
I’ve just tested this new beta version. The filtering is ok but my menus went broken again.
Perhaps a mix between beta 1 and beta 2 will work ??

No updates on the issue ?