Strange Theme Issue

  • Resolved SalCollaziano

    (@salcollaziano)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    If I duplicate a WordPress installation with an installation that was created using Duplicator – the third post on the front page (all using TwentyFifteen) blocks the left side/widgets. This has happened with 5 installations so far. I decided to use “newer” installations as they had less posts and media to delete after duplication – rather than the only non-duplicated site I have – which has a lot of posts and media which need to be deleted at the new, duplicate site.

    Anyway. Does anyone have any experience with this? I’d love to know how and why it happens – and if there’s a way to fix it without having to rebuild the sites again.

    Thanks in advance…

    Sal C.

    Original site:
    https://buickforums.com/buick-magazine/

    Site created from site that used “Duplicator”:
    https://genesisowners.com/hyundai-genesis-magazine/

    Site duplicated from original Buick site:
    https://toyotaowners.net/toyota-magazine/

    So as a recap, if I duplicate from the Buick site – which was the first site in this endeavor – it’s fine. However, if I duplicate a site that was created using Duplicator, the third post on the homepage blocks the left side/widgets…

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/duplicator/

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  • Hey SalCollaziano,

    For some reason it looks like the post id post-22 is not inside of your div id=content where it should be. You may have to debug the templates in your theme. The plugin only copies files and the database and updates the string URL in the DB, no other post data should be updated out side of the URL.

    Its a bit tough to tell why that is happening, the only way to really fix it is to echo out test statements in your theme templates that render the posts to see if the blog post somehow has an extra or missing div tag. One missing tag can cause the whole thing to render slightly off like your seeing.

    Hope that helps!

    Thread Starter SalCollaziano

    (@salcollaziano)

    Thank you Mr. Lamie. I turned debugging on but didn’t see any error messages. I’m not sure what you mean with the test statements. Can you show me how to add that code into a template?

    If I set the front page to only display two posts, something a little different happens. Please take a look:
    https://gmcowners.com/gmc-magazine/

    Does that narrow down where the issue is happening? If I set the front page to display four posts, each post past the third has the same issue.

    It actually starts happening at the bottom of the second post here (from my Infiniti blog):
    Posted on May 7, 2015Categories Infiniti NewsTags sales, sales recordLeave a comment Edit

    Sal C.

    Thread Starter SalCollaziano

    (@salcollaziano)

    …it’s something to do with the dpaBottomofPostPage plugin. If I deactivate it, everything is fine. It’s just strange that the issue is only happening with blogs created with duplicator. I’ll keep trying to figure out what the trigger is – if I can…

    Sal C.

    Thread Starter SalCollaziano

    (@salcollaziano)

    Okay. I have it working properly by turning off the ability for dpaBottomofPostPage to display on the front page. That fixed my problem in case anyone has the same issue in the future. Apparently my first site (the one where duplicates worked properly) had this turned off to begin with – and the others had it turned on.

    Sal C.

    Thanks for the update Sal!

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