Paul Menard

Great. Glad to hear you were fixed.

Marcoconut,

You are probably correct there may well be a conflict. Both plugins appears to ‘filter’ the wp_query object. The project is there is no ‘context’ to the wp_query object as it is passed from WP to the various plugin who massage and filter the query options. This is how I was stuck with the issue you and others reported before on the nav items gone missing.

I’ll need to investigate the Post Page Associator plugin.

Thanks.

SilviuT,

Not via the SE plugin. But here is what I would try. First for SE don’t set the Archive exclude.

In your themes functions.php setup a add_filter call for the ‘widget_categories_args’ filter like:

add_filter(‘widget_categories_args’, ‘my_widget_categories_args’);
function my_widget_categories_args($cat_args)
{
$cat_args[‘exclude’] = “3”;
return $cat_args;
}

Replace “3” with category ID to exclude. See the Codex on the wp_list_categories exclude argument
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories

SilviuT,

I updated Simply Exclude this morning to the www.ads-software.com code repository. The patched version is 1.7.9.1. This should fix your missing menu issue. Let me know if it causes other side effects.

GMacSpark,

Thanks for the post. Yes, I’m aware of the issue reported by others last week after WP 3.1 dropped. I’m working to address the issue within the SE plugin.

Alright found the issue not just guessing now. In old version of WP there was a status flag ‘is_front_page’. That has been replaced by the more correct ‘is_home’. Not sure how long ago that changed. That part of SE is 2 years old.

So another beta
https://www.codehooligans.com/packages/simply-exclude-1.7.9.1-beta2.zip

Marcoconut ,

Well, it helps in that the menus are no longer broken. But strange no filtering for you.

Anyone still willing to test a hopefully fixed version?

You can download the beta version here
https://www.codehooligans.com/packages/simply-exclude-1.7.9.1-beta.zip

Thanks.

SilviuT and KimHbel,

My apologies for issues from my little plugin. As mentioned above I’m still not able to reproduce on any of my development environments. Still reviewing the code. There is only a few lines difference between SE 1.7.8 and 1.7.9

Thanks for you patience.

justinph,

Meant to thank you for pointing this earlier. This tweak will be in the next release of Media-Tags.

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Marcoconut,

Thanks. Yeah that function is how I first started SE. It was built on that simple logic. Just a fron-tend UI to handle this.

Thanks for the details on the SE settings. Trying to nail this down. Actually just trying to reproduce any errors. I’ll keep you posted.

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Marcoconut,

So have tested SE 1.7.9 against WP 3.1 and WP 3.0.5. I’ve setup Genesis, Thesis, TwentyTen and some other themes. I’ve created multiple menus. I’ve create multiple dummy posts, categories and post tags. I simply cannot break the site. Meaning I don’t get a blank screen.

I’ve enabled WP_DEBUG and no errors, warnings etc. reports.

Can you give me an idea on how you have SE setup? Also what menus you have setup? Any custom post types or taxonomies? Those should not matter but thought I would ask.

Best,

@marcoconut,

Yes, it was reported by someone via my blog
https://www.codehooligans.com/projects/wordpress/simply-exclude/#comment-81930

I’m looking into the issue today. I tested on 3.0.x up to 3.1rc3. So not sure if this is something new in 3.1 or what. Will post back when I update a fix. Thanks for your patience.

I agree. I always thought WP kept things like Categories and Tags and any of the new Taxonomies sort of separate. Not happy with that either.

Actually I’m wrong. I must have been tired or looking at the wrong system last night. Just checked with a fresh 3.0.5 install. No plugins activated not even Media-Tags.

I went straight into the Categories panel. I added a new Category named ‘Flowers’. Then I go to Post Tags panel. I added a new tag named ‘Flowers’.

Then I went back to the Categories panel and changed the name to ‘Flowers xxx’. When I went back to the Post Tags panel the new ‘Flowers’ tag also changed to ‘Flowers xxx’.

This is not something with Media-Tags. Appears the terms are shared across taxonomies if they match.