Publish button is missing

To be more accurate: the entire “Publish” metabox is missing, not just the Publish button.

Hi hommealone,

Thanks for reporting your issue.

This is not the expected behavior of Advanced Ads.

When you open the inspector of your browser, do you notice any errors in the Console tab there?

Best regards,
Joachim

Thanks for your reply!

On the “add/edit Ad” screen I get a couple of errors:

First) (seems to be about a badly formed font declaration in a social media feed plugin)

11:33:01.326 downloadable font: OS/2: Bad sTypoLineGap, setting it to 0: -64 (font-family: “SlickRemix” style:normal weight:normal stretch:normal src index:1) source: https://asbpe.org/wp-content/plugins/feed-them-social/admin/css/fonts/SlickRemix.woff?p9iqv 1 admin.css:1:11

Disabling that plugin clears the error, but doesn’t fix the missing “Publish” metabox.

Second)

11:33:05.142 SyntaxError: expected expression, got ‘?’ 1 build.min.js:2:300067

That one’s from here:
source:
https://widgets.wp.com/notifications/build.min.js?69ec0877ed8c70eb602c

Possibly related to Classic Widgets plugin? No, disabling that plugin does not clear the error. Maybe Jetpack?

Third and lastly, this notice [not error])

Missing data from PHP (wpNotesArgs).

Location:
https://widgets.wp.com/notifications/build.min.js?:2:300067

Any suggestions?

Sorry, I missed another one… or maybe it is the same one, displayed differently in the console in Chrome rather than Firefox.

From:
https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/notes/admin-bar-v2.js?ver=10.9-202219

Missing data from PHP (wpNotesArgs).

BTW, deactivating Jetpack does clear this error, but does not restore the “Publish” metabox.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by hommealone.

I also tried:

Download a fresh copy of the plugin in case there was an installation glitch;
Rename the plugin directory using FTP;
Manually upload the fresh copy;
Delete the old renamed directory;
Re-enable in the plugins admin screen.

No help :- (

A temporary workaround is to run the below in the dev console to update/publish the ad.

jQuery('#post').submit()

Cheers.

Thanks for sharing this workaround. I am still struggling to replicate your issues on a test site. We are investigating what happens here.

Best regards,
Joachim

@fishsaidno , @schmidt25

I do use a lot of plugins, and disabling them all to find a possible conflict is not a good option for me. Perhaps if we compare the plugins that I use with those that @fishsaidno uses, we might spot a few of the most promising candidates to test/disable. Perhaps we both use a plugin that’s relatively rare, or we both use one that seems more likely to interact with the “edit” screen.

Here’s my list. Hopefully @fishsaidno can post one here too.

Advanced Custom Fields	
Advanced Custom Fields: Theme Code	
Advanced Editor Tools (previously TinyMCE Advanced)	
Akismet Anti-Spam	
Auto Upload Images	
Better Search Replace	
Classic Editor	
Classic Widgets	
Contact Form 7	
CPT Bootstrap Carousel	
Custom Post Type Permalinks	
Custom Post Type UI	
Delete Pending Comments	
Disable Comments	
Duplicator	
Easy Updates Manager	
Feed Them Social 	
Heartbeat Control by WP Rocket	
Honeypot for Contact Form 7	
HTML Editor Syntax Highlighter	
Jetpack	
LH Archived Post Status	
List category posts	
Login Security Solution	
Post Snippets	 
Post Type Switcher	
Really Simple SSL	
reCaptcha by BestWebSoft	
ReCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7	
Redirection	
Reveal Template	
Sassy Social Share	
Simple Custom Post Order	
Term Management Tools	
Title Remover	
UpdraftPlus 
User Switching	
Widget Options	
WordPress Importer	
WordPress Users & WooCommerce Customers Import Export(BASIC)	
WP-Optimize - Clean, Compress, Cache	
WP Help	
WPS Hide Login	
WPZOOM Shortcodes	
Zero Spam for WordPress

Let’s see where we overlap!

I’m away from my machine for the weekend.

Though, looking at that list the only plugins used over here that I hadn’t already tried disabling are:

• Contact Form 7
• LH Archived Post Status
• WPS Hide Login

Suspicious on LH Archived Post Status, that one does add a metabox to posts.

Hopefully something there?

@fishsaidno @schmidt25 @shawfactor

@fishsaidno – your suspicion is correct. Disabling the LH Archived Post Status plugin corrects the issue with the Advanced Ads plugin, and the Publish metabox is again visible. You’d mentioned that you weren’t sure when this problem began for you. (I’ve just installed Advanced Ads for the first time.) Apparently LH Archived Posts Status has recently had a major revision; perhaps that’s when it broke things for you.

@schmidt25 – Perhaps you and the author of LH Archived Post Status @shawfactor can put your heads together to resolve this conflict?

I’ll post about this on the LH Archived Post Status WP forum as well, and hopefully the conflict can be resolved.

Here’s the post on the LH Archived Post Status forum:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/conflict-w-advanced-ads-plugin/

Please feel free to add to my explanation there if it will help.

Ivd made a change to exclude the advanced ads custom post type from eligibility for archiving in version 3.01

This should fix the issue but I’ve not tested it properly as I don’t use advanced ads

Side note: @hommealone Do not over use the @ notification anynmore, you are reaching abusive levels now.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/guidelines/#the-bad-stuff

Side note: Jan – sorry, no harm meant. I was just trying to bring together two plugin authors whose plugins have a code conflict. I guess I didn’t really understand the etiquette of @ mentions. Thanks for pointing this out, I’ll be more careful!

As noted in the thread in the LH Archived Post Status, the update to that plugin didn’t help for me.

fishsaidno: can you confirm that it is still not fixed in your setup?