Theres an issue with the “Only selected pages” setting

hello. first off, the version from the repository is 5.0.2 not 4.9.4.
also i dont know if this issue concerns the free plugin only, but ill still try to explain my experience.

when you try to multi-select, the first thing you notice is a jump. it clicks what you pointed at, then jumps up and click somewhere else.

so when trying to select some pages, or more exactly, all out of 45 but 2, i simply cannot. the settings page seems to not remember what clicked. if i shift click the whole list and then ctrl click to deselect some, it will not remember any of those after saving (thus reloading the page).

so i tried clicking one by one. this turned up to be a challenge, since the selection box is, well, tiny. i had to go and add a class directly to the code to make the list taller, and “selectable”. if the list of pages is too long, its simple unusable.

then i clicked one by one. because of the click jump i mentioned before, i had to ctrl click to re-select whatever got de-selected. this happens with every first click made on that div.

so i keep clicking-selecting my way down and saving after 5 or so items. they get selected and remembered after page is saved.

but then, if i skip one or two entries, it will not work and even after saving they will not be selected. not even if i ctrl click those skipped lines and try to save.

so i deselect everything and save, to start over, trying not to skip lines this time.
after a few tries, it became clear that the problem is the length of the list. somehow there seems to be a limit to what i can select.

my best guess is that when saving, all of this page names clicked travel in a string.. and if its too long it just wont pass and creating an error which prevent the saving.

i initially intended to leave out 3 pages, but i had to skip 5. so 40 pages is the most i can save to use the popup.

no javascript or php errors visible, though.

thats it. you may wanna look into this..

thanks!