Bill Weye

Duh. Brain fart. I see how I can un-archive the posts.

Plugin deleted.

I wasn’t clear. The posts disappear from the backend when I disable the plugin. When the plugin is active I know that I can see the archived posts via the horizontal menu on the Posts/Pages menus.

It seems like they are permanently marked as archived and not visible when the plugin is inactive. Unless you fix this issue, I can only do it by going through phpmyadmin and editing the DB. (And then deleting your plugin.)

That could be how it’s intended to work, and if so, it seems like a penalty to the user for using the plugin. All the archived posts should be visible to the admin. We should be able to un-archive posts.

Oh. About the posts appearing on the front page. When the plugin is active, it is a theme issue, which I find very strange because the theme developer is among the most popular on www.ads-software.com. WP themselves have even commissioned him to create a theme for them. He’s not some rag-tag operation.

I will try and rebuild the front page template (again). Technically, it is a theme issue. However, it seems kind of bizarre to make a plugin that only works with WP 20xx themes.

If you could tell me whether you will fix the permanent archive post issue, that would be wonderful. If not, I’ll have to dig into the db.

Fixed or not, I can’t trust your plugin and will delete it after I get my posts back.

Bill

@coleds Duh. I know you didn’t apologize (I was just pointing out that you didn’t).

I was rude? Hothouse flower, you are. Actually, I am very concerned with others, that’s why I took the time to point out this issue and not just delete the plugin immediately.

Dude, I didn’t say anything, but when I found your hard coding I already reported this plugin as a security risk. Way ahead of you! Best of luck.

@coleds Thanks for the apology (?). Still deleted. Not sure (don’t care) why someone would hard code URLs into a plugin dev and not be using variables. Too bad. As I said, there is definitely a space for this type of plugin (a SEO plugin without feature bloat). The search continues …

@coleds On trying to import Yoast data the action redirects to this link

https://wp.coleds.com/wp-admin/admin-post.php?action=sseo_yoast_import

You can find this link in your options code here:

~/Downloads/cds-simple-seo/app/Admin/Meta/Options.php:33: 		echo '<div class="notice notice-info is-dismissible"><p>'.__('Please').'<a  target="_blank"> '.__('donate to Simple SEO').'.</a> or <a href="https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/cds-simple-seo/reviews/" target="_blank">'.__('Leave a Review.').'</a> Or Both! Please email <a href="mailto:[email protected]">David Cole</a> with any questions.</p></div>';
~/Downloads/cds-simple-seo/app/Admin/Meta/Options.php:244: 		$content .= '<a  class="button button-primary" onclick="return confirm(';
~/Downloads/cds-simple-seo/app/Admin/Meta/Options.php:250: 		$content .= '<a  class="button button-primary" onclick="return confirm(';
~/Downloads/cds-simple-seo/app/Admin/Meta/Options.php:256: 		$content .= '<a  class="button button-primary" onclick="return confirm(';

I can’t recreate a php error again, but there was one having to do with Elementor, which doesn’t seem to do with the above.

I’ve been using WP since version .8. You are not dealing with a piker. I’m not a developer, but I know my way around WP. This is an intentional act.

Good luck, pal.

Actually, I DID find the error … in the wp-admin dir. Why? Because it in fact it’s not a php error, it’s an error integrating with Elementor (I guess). Not going to get into it or show you the error. Plugin isn’t ready for prime time. Too bad, there is definitely a space for a “simple SEO” plugin.

I’d love me some placeholder, please ??

These instructions are nowhere nearly enough to override any functions in this theme.

First, the theme functions in Clean Retina aren’t written to easily override them, so you have to write a bunch more code, which I’ll show below.

Developers, if you want people to easily override functions, please read this:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes#Using_functions.php

Now, here is an example of how to override the default text that is output in the footer:

// Removes cleanretina_footer_info from the cleanretina_footer phase
function remove_thematic_actions() {
    remove_action('cleanretina_footer','cleanretina_footer_info',25);
}

// Call 'remove_thematic_actions' during WP initialization
add_action('after_setup_theme','remove_thematic_actions');

// Add our custom function to the 'cleanretina_footer' phase
add_action('cleanretina_footer','bhw_footer_info', 25);

function bhw_footer_info() {
   $output = '<div class="copyright">'.__( 'Copyright ?', 'cleanretina' ).' '.'[the-year] [site-link]'.' '.__( 'Powered by:', 'cleanretina' ).' '.'[wp-link] '.'</div><!-- .copyright -->';
   echo do_shortcode( $output );
}

Notice that you have to first remove the function that you want to replace, then tell when to run this code (after theme setup), then run your new function that will replace the default.

If the developers change their functions to how WordPress prescribes, then we’ll just have to write our new function that replaces the default.

Hope that makes sense.

Oh, if you have more questions about this method, take a look here:
https://www.venutip.com/content/right-way-override-theme-functions

This is too crazy. I need to get a custom field value, which is working fine in get_pages, but it’s not possible to get meta values in get_page.

Strange.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

Thanks for that!

Frankly, between the broken functionality of this plugin (seems like issues are still lingering, from what I read here) and the downgrade of the useability, I’ll be working on coding all my hooks into custom functions when Thesis 2.0 is released.

Does anyone know if the plugin author was bitten by a zombie? Something happened.

How to downgrade OpenHook (or any plugin, most likely):

1. Deactivate then delete the plugin from your plugin page.
2. Download the zip file of the version you want to install. This can be found on the main plugin page, under FYI > Other Versions. For OpenHook you want version 2.3.2. Find that here:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/thesis-openhook/download/

3. When downloading DO NOT extract the zip file.
4. Go back to your plugins page and click on Upload. Follow the directions and then activate the plugin. That should work.

Marc,

What you might be looking for is the WordPress hook for the footer, which the developer has separated onto the “WordPress” tab. I know, it seems silly to create a separate tab for only 2 hooks. But it is what it is. Be happy this new version is working for you. Maybe.

Kate,

I might be able to top you. I sent an email to a client and told him NOT to update (trying to be proactive) and he didn’t pay attention to what I actually wrote. He updated immediately and broke his site.

Dunderhead!

I’m not telling my other clients anything.

I figured out the problem!!

duh, I had to give the tag slug, not the tag itself, in the custom field of the page.

Hero work, Michael! Thank you.