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Some of my existing filters don’t work anymore.
So the first thing to try is creating a new filter. The dropdown menus don’t work. (for Post types, Tags, Categories etc.)
I tried in a few ways, but can’t see them. Also for existing filters, the dropdowns don’t work.
Also interesting is that one of my existing filters breaks the page completely. The other filters on the same page work as they should. When I look at the Filter settings, all kinds of variables from other filters are shown.
So the simple solution would be to create a new filter and delete the old one. But therefore I need the dropdowns to work, to select the category.Less important but maybe related. In the editor the button Add [show-post] also does not show a dropdown menu.
Please let me know if you need screenshots or other information.
@Weaver will need to comment.
There is a new version just release this evening. The only issue I was able to find was downloading the Filter or Slider saved to a file options. That seems fixed, but I think they were broken for some time due to changes in the WP version. If you are still having issues, I need more details about ecactly which drop down menus your mean. Do you really mean drop down lists of options, because technically menus are the choices found on most web sites. Or do you mean the choices like Show Posts, Filters, Sliders. I did have some issues showing a blank page for the tabs, but just clicking on a tab would display the options. That seems to have been fixed.
But my testing was pretty thorough, and I have not seen any issues with selecting tabs for option sets.
But try the new show posts that is version 2.0.3 which should resolve saving and loading options to a file.. And if it is still now working, provide some specific examples – exactly what you are clicking on, and which options you expect to see.
Thanks for the quick action!
The one filter that broke one page, is still not showing, but at least it does not break the page anymore. I will investigate more and come back to that in a new thread.
Less important but maybe related. In the editor the button Add [show-post] also does not show a dropdown menu.
That issue is solved too.
I’ve found the main issues with the lists, and have a fix in progress. I was trying to hard to get the plugin returned, and didn’t do totally complete testing. All involved getting the output “sanitization” the plugin validator rquires. It does it stupidly – requiring EVERY output to be filtered without taking full context of the issue into account. And there are several ways to filter that output depending on what kind it is (plain text, various HTML statements, etc.), and I got that wrong on those drop down lists. Should have a fix posted later today.
Back in the day when servers were slower, WP wasn’t so absolute in requiring everything to be sanitized, which does take a bit of processing for every instance. Now that computers are faster, WP has decided for total “safety” even if not needed for some contexts. And for every bit of HTML output (forms, lists, etc), the needed sanitizing is different. Got some lists right, others not. All will be fixed.
And all of this is because hackers can find lots of holes. Most of these issues affect only code on the admin side of a wp site – and the vast majority of sites will not have bad actors with full admin capability. But for the few that might, WP wants everything protected.
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