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can't delete a post!!!

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Jan 21, 2014 · 2:29 pm · Edited

Hi

Delete btn is there, even after clicking on delete, it asks me “Are you sure you want to delete this post” but after a little “thinking” returns to same url with no error …

nothing toolbox > error logs  either

any idea please? 

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YS Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 21, 2014 · 3:06 pm

Let’s ask the obvious question first… are you using some sort of WP caching plugin?

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Jan 21, 2014 · 3:22 pm

have excluded the forum path for the plugin and am able to see new/edited posts so not a cache issue 

YS Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 21, 2014 · 3:30 pm

Another possibilty is a script conflict – with your wp theme or another plugin – which needs to be fixed. This codex article explains what this means and what to look for:

http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/faq/troubleshooting/what-is-this-jquery-conflict/

Sadly comes along every now and then.

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Jan 21, 2014 · 3:32 pm

yeap saw that article, thanks… all js sources are pointing to our own site… 

hmmm… but u r right … it is kind of conflict… post has the tinyMCR editor but edit for the same post doesnt… the toolset doesnt show up … so yeap … has to be some kind of conflict :S

any other suggestion except for internal source of jquery libs?

YS Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 21, 2014 · 3:39 pm

Can we have a link to your forum page so that we can see what is loading?

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Jan 21, 2014 · 3:45 pm

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/forum

and lots of thanks

YS Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 21, 2014 · 4:52 pm

Well yes – mostly things are being loaded correctly except for…. that WP theme you are using is force loading a second copy of jQuery from within it’s own folders breaking the WP API and standards. To make matters worse the copy it is loading is ancient – V 1.2.4 –  when the latest WP and SP requires V 1.10.2 !!

I am also seeing a set of 5 scripting errors (in the script console) which I have no idea about. In other words not sure what is causing them but it could simply be the above scenario. It might also be something else and once an error occurs jQuery scripts often just stop functioning.

So the first task is to get rid of this erroneous jQuery loading which means tracking it down in the theme code and correcting it.

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Jan 21, 2014 · 5:01 pm

k thanks

cleared a few in dev… am getting msDropDown not defined… but… yeah let me find and remove the second call you mentioned first and get back to you thanks

 

 

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Jan 22, 2014 · 1:47 pm

found the dinosaur hard-coded jquery and removed it from template… and TADA everything works amazingly

Thanks a lot 

YS Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 22, 2014 · 3:29 pm

Oh that really is great news. Sometimes it feels like you blame this stuff on a theme but you’re never quite sure if that really is the culprit… so you feel like you are just passing the buck. But always nice to get one right :)