kfawcett

I’ve managed to figure out that it has something to do with the donate shortcode.

If I remove the shortcode [pfund-donate] from the Cause page, then everything else on the page works.

Any ideas?

Maybe I didn’t explain that clearly. I had already put the thumbnail call in my loop.

After restoring a previous database, everything now works. Maybe it was a fluke, but something must have been corrupted in the DB.

Thanks for your help.

Not sure what I was supposed to get from visiting that link.

I just restored a backup from before installing SWT and restarted. Everything seems to be OK.

All the themes use the featured image.

I’m leaning towards it being a combination of the theme and possiblly something wrong in the DB. Does SWT write anything to the database?

My reasoning behind something in the database being incorrect is because, my theme has a few if else statements for what image to show. The last else statement shows a “no image” picture if there isn’t a thumbnail. This is what was showing up when I first installed SWT. After changing that else statement to show the_post_thumbnail the images started to show up. I had to do some adjustments to get the thumbnails sizes correct and then I deleted all the post to repopulate the main blog.

Somewhere along the way something happened as now when I try to import all the blogs, it only imports one of them — this one happens to be a different theme than the rest and the images show up for it. The only way I can get the other child blogs to show up is to specify the blog id and import them one by one — but the images don’t show up.

If I change the main blogs theme to another then the thumbnail images work.

OR

If I don’t put any images inside the post and only have a thumbnail image, then the thumbnails will show up on the main blog.

I think I’ve narrowed down the culprit to the theme that the posts are coming from and/or the them the main/parent blog is using.

I have one site that is running a different theme and that is the one that is pulling the images correctly. How could a theme cause this?

See this: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-compatibility-test-errors?replies=7#post-1627402

I’ve got the same issue. I’m trying to determine the cause too.

There is an Import/Export Settings area at the bottom of the General Settings of W3TC. There you could export the settings you already setup and import them into the new sites.

Sure, it’ll be later on today before I can upgrade. I’ll let you know.

No problem, it didn’t bring down my server or sites, but the plugin stopped working. Luckily I had backups. ??

While this might not work for you, it did for me.

Check out my post for how I fixed it for my sites.https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/minify-broken-in-latest-update?replies=20#post-2185335

Yeah, it appears that a lot of extra features have been added since the 9.1.x releases and with that comes extra complexities. With a plugin as complicated as W3TC you cannot test every possibility, especially when you are giving the plugin away for free. Unfortunately that leaves us, as users, to help with identifying bugs and helping to improve the plugin.

If you’re not comfortable with doing that, then the best option would be to stay with an older version of a plugin and wait a longer period before updating. This is how most larger corporations work too — They are usually never first adopters because there are almost always bugs.

Yeah, W3TC usually does it without intervention also, but it’s an extremely complicated plugin that has been designed to work across multiple system configurations. The author has put tons of time into it and sometimes it takes a little extra user intervention to configure it for your specific system.

Not all files can be minified, especially JS files. A lot of time if the JS file is compressed it could end up corrupting the file due to the JS code not being written correctly.

Are you running 9.2.3? If so, then you went into the config file, deleted the files in the array, then went back and re-added the files through the help wizard or manually. Once all that was done you re-enabled minify?