Dr. Moriarty

I have linked to your plugin on my site (which is not restored sans-widget for now):
https://alanwindhausen.com/links/

I greatly appreciate your help and will post again if I find the source of my trouble.

I compared your colophon data to mine, and changed what settings I had different to match. I still was having the same issue.

So I decided to do something a bit more drastic – I did a complete reinstall of WordPress on the site, and then added my WordPress account as an admin. I create a couple dummy posts and filled in some dummy data in for my biography.

I still had the same problems:
Front Page (Posts page, not static)
https://imgur.com/A4M0J,q56WL

Secondary Page
https://imgur.com/A4M0J,q56WL#1

These were the settings under my new install.

Array
(
    [wp_biographia_installed] => on
    [wp_biographia_version] => 321
    [wp_biographia_style_bg] => #FFEAA8
    [wp_biographia_style_border] => top
    [wp_biographia_display_front_posts] => on
    [wp_biographia_display_archives_posts] => on
    [wp_biographia_display_author_archives_posts] => on
    [wp_biographia_display_category_archives_posts] => on
    [wp_biographia_display_date_archives_posts] => on
    [wp_biographia_display_tag_archives_posts] => on
    [wp_biographia_display_posts] => on
    [wp_biographia_display_pages] => on
    [wp_biographia_display_feed] =>
    [wp_biographia_display_location] => bottom
    [wp_biographia_content_prefix] => About
    [wp_biographia_content_name] => first-last-name
    [wp_biographia_content_authorpage] => on
    [wp_biographia_content_image] => on
    [wp_biographia_content_image_size] => 100
    [wp_biographia_content_bio] => on
    [wp_biographia_content_icons] =>
    [wp_biographia_content_alt_icons] =>
    [wp_biographia_content_icon_url] =>
    [wp_biographia_content_email] => on
    [wp_biographia_content_web] => on
    [wp_biographia_content_twitter] => on
    [wp_biographia_content_facebook] => on
    [wp_biographia_content_linkedin] => on
    [wp_biographia_content_googleplus] => on
    [wp_biographia_content_delicious] =>
    [wp_biographia_content_flickr] =>
    [wp_biographia_content_picasa] =>
    [wp_biographia_content_vimeo] =>
    [wp_biographia_content_youtube] =>
    [wp_biographia_content_reddit] =>
    [wp_biographia_content_posts] => extended
    [wp_biographia_content_link_target] => _self
    [wp_biographia_content_link_nofollow] =>
    [wp_biographia_admin_new_users] =>
    [wp_biographia_admin_hide_profiles] =>
    [wp_biographia_category_exclusions] =>
    [wp_biographia_post_exclusions] =>
    [wp_biographia_global_post_exclusions] =>
    [wp_biographia_page_exclusions] =>
    [wp_biographia_admin_content_priority] => 10
    [wp_biographia_admin_excerpt_priority] => 10
    [wp_biographia_sync_content_wpautop] =>
    [wp_biographia_sync_excerpt_wpautop] =>
)

and users:

Array
(
    [3] => Array
        (
            [ID] => 3
            [user_login] => admin
            [wp_biographia_suppress_posts] =>
            [wp_biographia_suppress_pages] =>
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [ID] => 2
            [user_login] => awindhausen
            [wp_biographia_suppress_posts] =>
            [wp_biographia_suppress_pages] =>
        )

)

I went back and added the debug widget code and the code to my php.ini file to output it to my error file, but that remained empty too.

From all this, it seems that there is a disconnect somewhere in my server files. While there is a small glitch with having a static front page, the bulk of this problem definitely lies on my side somewhere, and without a debug trace, I’m not sure where.

Thank you very much for all the help you’ve offered, but I think I need to get the bug traced on my end somehow – when I get a chance, I’ll have one of my code buddies look over my server setup and see what about my files on inmotion’s servers is causing all this trouble.

For the mean time, I’ll keep the page-biography from WP Biographia, and play with it more when I have time.

Thank you again!

I haven’t manually modified the code at all. The only changes have been the in-dashboard options (changing logo image, background color, site tagline).

Beyond that, I have a static landing page and comments turned on new posts.

Yep, Nope, and Yep.

Source file is in the right spot and renamed, there are no caching plugins, and all other plugins are currently deactivated.

I greatly appreciate all the time you are taking on this – if it at any point is beginning to be too much, please let me know. Though I would prefer the widget and though I am game to keep work to find and fix the source of this error if you are, I can content myself with using the biography display on the pages rather than the widget for the time being, if needed.

Okay, I get how the widget ‘show biography’ toggles work now, and have both checked on. That experiment was a bit of a detour, then.

Alright, back to the error logs: Double, triple, and quadruple checking the error log setup in php.ini, wp-config.php, and using that error-log widget, my error log file is still empty. For some reason, nothing is being left in there – looking over the debug widget file you put on github, it looks like it should be outputting the settings (like the debug trace example you posted above), correct? If it’s not outputting those, would that imply the widget-code is not being fully called upon, for some reason?

Thank you for all this work! The debug version should be up and live, and I’ve been loading the site on a couple of computers to try and generate the logs.

Apologies for my php-inexperience, but I do not believe the widget is outputting the errors to any log that I have set up (or, more likely, any log that I know where to access).

I have a ‘php-error.log’ file on my home/<username> of the server, but that file remains empty. I also installed Error log Monitor as a dashboard plugin, but that too has an empty log. Do I need to create a separate log file somewhere for the wp-biographia-widget.php to dump to?

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On the other side of things, I ran some more tests regarding the static landing page. I changed the site to have a landing page of posts (even though there are no posts to speak of besides Hello World), and the widget had two sections: a ‘Written By’ (empty) and a ‘About Alan’ (with avatar, but no biography). This is only on the landing page. The other pages still show a blank ‘contributors’ section in the widget with no other data.

I went back to the widget settings, and changed it to show BOTH ‘Show User’s Short Biography’ and ‘Show User’s Biography’ – and the text in the from the short section appeared in the widget (but only the short biography, not the long as well…)! The text from the long biography appeared in the plugin box at the end of the posts.

I then went BACK to the widget settings, turned OFF ‘Show User’s Biography’ (leaving only ‘Show User’s Short Biography’ checked), and the avatar still appeared but NO text from EITHER biography appeared.

I currently have the widget with both the short and long biographies checked, and have left the posts landing page up on alanwindhausen.com, if you would like to see.

Here is the colophon information as well:

[wp_biographia_installed] => on
[wp_biographia_version] => 321
[wp_biographia_style_bg] => #FFEAA8
[wp_biographia_style_border] => top
[wp_biographia_display_front_posts] => on
[wp_biographia_display_archives_posts] => on
[wp_biographia_display_author_archives_posts] => on
[wp_biographia_display_category_archives_posts] => on
[wp_biographia_display_date_archives_posts] => on
[wp_biographia_display_tag_archives_posts] => on
[wp_biographia_display_posts] => on
[wp_biographia_display_pages] => on
[wp_biographia_display_feed] =>
[wp_biographia_display_location] => bottom
[wp_biographia_content_prefix] => About
[wp_biographia_content_name] => first-last-name
[wp_biographia_content_authorpage] =>
[wp_biographia_content_image] => on
[wp_biographia_content_image_size] => 100
[wp_biographia_content_bio] => on
[wp_biographia_content_icons] =>
[wp_biographia_content_alt_icons] =>
[wp_biographia_content_icon_url] =>
[wp_biographia_content_email] => on
[wp_biographia_content_web] =>
[wp_biographia_content_twitter] =>
[wp_biographia_content_facebook] =>
[wp_biographia_content_linkedin] =>
[wp_biographia_content_googleplus] => on
[wp_biographia_content_delicious] =>
[wp_biographia_content_flickr] => on
[wp_biographia_content_picasa] =>
[wp_biographia_content_vimeo] =>
[wp_biographia_content_youtube] =>
[wp_biographia_content_reddit] =>
[wp_biographia_content_posts] => extended
[wp_biographia_content_link_target] => _self
[wp_biographia_content_link_nofollow] =>
[wp_biographia_admin_new_users] =>
[wp_biographia_admin_hide_profiles] =>
[wp_biographia_category_exclusions] =>
[wp_biographia_post_exclusions] =>
[wp_biographia_global_post_exclusions] =>
[wp_biographia_page_exclusions] =>
[wp_biographia_admin_content_priority] => 10
[wp_biographia_admin_excerpt_priority] => 10
[wp_biographia_sync_content_wpautop] => on
[wp_biographia_sync_excerpt_wpautop] => on

My landing page is a static page, yes. I do have full access to my files, and added a php_error log on my WP-config.php file, which I have outputting to a separate file. Opening the site in a different browser with no cache of the site, I haven’t seen any errors added to the log, but I’d be happy to insert some tracing messages as well (though I might need to be pointed in the right direction for where in the plugin php file using the WordPress editor).

Thank you for the quick reply! I did enable Avatars (having followed through your setup guide on your website), and have the shorter biography filled out. Both appear on my non-landing pages – you can see this on https://alanwindhausen.com/assignments/

I am, in fact, using StartupWP.

Today I tried deleting the plugin and reinstalling, but I’m still in the same boat. I also played with adding dummy information for my other user account, and making that user an admin and even deleting that user – but this changed nothing. The widget shows ‘contributors’, even though I only have one user one the site at this point, so it’s assuming the site has multiple writers. Any ideas on where to check next?