Title of first and last post on Events List page are wrong.

[Marlinda]

I noticed this today, I don’t know why this is, I also don’t know if this has always been, or is something new (maybe because the first event has already begun, or something.)

But looking at the page: http://www.cerem.co/b/kurakura/events You see the first event is missing the title. This title however is displayed as the title of the LAST event in the list. (The funny thing is, the Link of the last event, points to the event it should point to. It’s just the title that’s wrong)

I have not altered or overridden any page. It’s a pretty standard out of the box installation.

[Barry]

That’s definitely rather strange and not something I recall being reported previously: can you try deactivating all other plugins and switching to a default, unmodified theme such as Twenty Twelve?

It’s not impossible that some filters are in place which play with post titles to achieve some other affect, for instance.

[Marlinda]

Wow, I did a quick check, when switching to 20-12, the link does indeed show up. This doesn’t make sense to me at all. I’m not a WordPress programmer, so that might have something to do with it 😉

So yes: When switching to the 20-12 theme, the problem is solved. However this is obviously not a good solution. So do you have any recommendations how to debug and fix this?

[Barry]

So if we know the issue lies with your theme we would need to look at that and try to determine what the problem might be. That may be outwith what we can do for you here, unfortunately, but can you tell me what theme you are using (and ideally provide a link to its homepage)?

[Marlinda]

The theme is Dynamix. http://themeforest.net/item/dynamix-business-corporate-wordpress-theme/113901?WT.ac=portfolio_item&WT.seg_1=portfolio_item&WT.z_author=themeva

However not the latest version. I’m using 2.9 of the theme (I tried to update it to the latest version, but the guy I took over from did so many custom changes that upgrading is a bit of a pain.)

So I should be on the lookout for Filters? Where would these be? in Functions.php? or also in other places?

[Barry]

OK. I’m a bit concerned about troubleshooting an out-of-date theme that isn’t readily accessible; would you be able to try updating in case that happens to solve this (on a test site if not initially on the live site)?

[Marlinda]

I was out of the running for a while. This reply is to let you know I’m still working on it. Yes, I will try that, I think today. I will let you know the reults 🙂 Thank you so far.

[Barry]

Sure thing 🙂

[Marlinda]

Okay, I haven’t gotten the new version of the theme installed yet. However, I did a print_r of (with my limited knowledge of the insides of WordPress, I got to : print_r(get_post(the_ID())) which seemed to work. )

What I see in the object is that clearly the post title is empty on the first one and filled on the consecutive posts.

I know this isn’t what you asked for, sorry about that. But is this something that tells us anything? It’s all I got so far, I will continue looking.

[Barry]

Are you still using 3.2? I wonder if this might actually be related to a known bug that we solved in 3.3, albeit taking a slightly different form. To test this theory out (if you are indeed still on 3.2) can you try adding the following fairly close to the top of your wp-config.php file:

define( 'TRIBE_MODIFY_GLOBAL_TITLE', false );

Does that impact on this at all?

[Barry]

It’s been a while so I’ll go ahead and close this thread. Of course if you need further help for this or any other issue please do feel free to create a new thread or threads as needed. Thanks!

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