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@mh Themes: Happy to hear you validate your themes. A lot of people don’t. ??

With regards to Felin’s validation error. It looks like this is due to the validator being incorrect at this point of time: https://adrianroselli.com/2015/08/where-to-put-your-search-role.html
So, probably safe to ignore. But I still say it’s always good to validate! ??

I think validating your HTML should always be recommended. Most browsers, and Google can cope with badly formed HTML but some do not. Valid HTML really helps with accessibility.

https://make.www.ads-software.com/accessibility/handbook/testing/how-to-test-for-accessibility/

Google may not stick to their own guidelines… but for the first time, they do now stipulate “Valid HTML”. So it may be an indication that they are using this as one of their ranking factors: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en

Validation is also a good way of finding non-closed links etc in the content. A good way to spot any HTML ‘typos’.

That’s very interesting Dave. I’ll go back to WP Engine and run that past them.

Thank you! ??

No, I didn’t find a solution. On another install on WP Engine the podcast worked fine. So I don’t think it is a problem with WP Engine.

I tried a different theme, disabling all plugins, but to no avail, it just won’t work.

Thanks angelo,

Yes, I had tried them, but you inspired me to try private=1, which worked!

Not sure why this should be the case? These are not private locations. But hey, it works!

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No worries alancdev, glad you have sorted your issue! ??

I believe I have worked out that the location shortcode will only work if the location has had or is having an event.

For example:
[locations_map post_id=”6405,6416,6435,6440,6461″ limit=”0″]

Only displays locations which have/or will be having an event. So this is nothing to do with my location custom taxonomy. Again, all locations are shown while logged in. But when not logged in just the locations which have had or are to have an event are displayed.

Any solutions for this, aside from creating events at these locations?

Sure, it looks like I need to fire up my code editor… ??

Thanks for the help caimin_nwl and angelo!

‘type’ is a custom taxonomy, I created for the location CPT used by EM.

That’s a shame it’s not possible to filter by a custom taxonomy. Strange it works perfectly while logged in.

Thank you

On the hotels page I am using this

[locations_list type="hotel" town="Beaulieu" limit="0" ]
<div><span class="alignleft" style="padding-right: 20px;"><a href="#_LOCATIONURL">#_LOCATIONIMAGE{150,150}</a></span>
<h3><a title="#_LOCATIONNAME" href="#_LOCATIONURL" rel="bookmark">#_LOCATIONNAME</a></h3>
#_LOCATIONEXCERPT

#_LOCATIONADDRESS, #_LOCATIONTOWN, #_LOCATIONPOSTCODE

</div>
[/locations_list]

On the visit page I am using this:
<ul>[locations_list limit="20" type="tourist-attraction" ]<li><a href="#_LOCATIONURL" title="#_LOCATIONNAME" rel="bookmark" itemprop="url">#_LOCATIONNAME</a></li>[/locations_list]</ul>

In both cases, when logged in everything works as expected. When logged out only some of the locations are being displayed. The visit page for example is showing just 2 attractions when not logged in. When logged in there are 16 locations showing.

The EM Version is: 5.5.7.1

This is on many pages of the site where I have entered the shortcode into the text editor in WordPress.

Thank you.

No, I do not have WPML installed.

Glad to hear your back up and running. I suspect that this is some kind of file permissions issue. Your original post though still troubles me:

The last time I had this, every time I recovered the site from a backup, the WSOD would return the next day. Just like clockwork. In the end I had to reinstall WP and start from scratch.

Could there be some kind automated server task that is causing this? With unhelpful hosts, and actually it’s probably unfair of me to label them like that. It could be you have an unmanaged account. But either way, long term I would still try and find a more supportive host if I were you. I don’t believe this is a WordPress issue.

Hope it proves more reliable going forward. ??

That’s cool, and thanks again. ??