Suffusion 3.1.0 and a few problems i am having

[Dark_Fox28]

Hi

Hope you had a good new year.

I updated today to the latest edition of Suffusion but my front page featured content has stopped working and just shows a blank black area on the screen.

One of the Widgets which i installed called Enhanced Recent Posts is now refusing to show more than 1 entry where as before the update i had 30 entries on the sidebar.

I just update using the update facility built within wordpress thus i don't have backups of the last update.

Is it possible to either provide a link so i can download the last edition or possibly help with a fix for the two issues i am having.

I changed two things with the header and comments section but i have changed those two things for the last few updates without issues.

I can't understand why the featured content is just showing a blank black space and have currently turned the feature off.

In the Header section i have this code.

<title>
<?php
if (function_exists('ghpseo_output'))
ghpseo_output('main_title');
else wp_title('', true);
?>
</title>
<meta name="generator" content="Blu Ray Reviews at <?php bloginfo(''); ?>" />

In the Comments section i have this as i have turned off comments and wanted to mention the RSS feed.

<p><?php _e('Subscribe to our RSS Feed to always get the latest reviews as they are posted', "suf_theme"); ?></p>
<?php

[sayontan]

Can you add back the featured content? Put it on another page if you don't want it on the front page.

[Dark_Fox28]

I switched it back on and also switched it back on to category view.

The featured content works on category view but not on the front index page. Thats a mystery to me since it was working before the update.

Could this be a plugin interfering with it ? As far as i know i don't have any plugins which should cause issues with JQuery and if there was one it should cause problems on the category view not just the front page.

I can probably try and use another widget for the recent posts but it's a shame the featured content has stopped working for the front page of my site.

I just checked and the issue is there for me with Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.5.6 and the latest browser versions of Opera, Google Chrome and Safari.

If you have spare time and wish to look at the code of the front page it's http://www.darkrealmfox.com/film_reviews/

[sayontan]

What are the conditions you have set for articles appearing in your Featured Content? The reason I don't see anything on your front page is because there is only one post in the slider (JQuery Cycle doesn't initiate with one post only). Rather weird problem, because your category pages have more than one post in the featured content. List out all the settings you have - maybe something is not playing well.

[Dark_Fox28]

I have the Suffusion theme options set to show 5 items in the featured content but have a plugin called Post limits set to show 1.

I tried changing the Post Limits to 5 and cleared the cache and now 5 items show up on the front page and the featured content now shows up also.

This is a mystery though as before the latest upgrade i could set the Post Limits to show 1 written review and Suffusion to show 5 items in the featured content but now it's only showing what Post Limits is set to.

Interesting i adjusted Post Limits to 2 for the front page and 2 show up. Suffusion is set to show 5 though and 5 show on the categories page.

There must be some conflict between Post Limits and the latest upgrade.

Is there a fix for this without losing Post Limits which i find very useful for the categories section.

[Dark_Fox28]

I just noticed that 2 posts are also showing on the recent posts sidebar widget. 30 should be showing. Obviously Post Limits is the problem and i wonder if there was a recent upgrade which i installed ( but have forgot about )

Strange though how it can interfere with the theme and a sidebar widget the way it is.

Just checked Wordpress site and i note Custom Post Limits was updated on 30th december 2009. So i think whatever was in their upgrade has unfortunately caused issues with Enhanced Recent Posts Widget and your Suffusion theme.

I'll maybe have to disable or find another plugin which can perform the duties that Custom Post Limits does or hopefully they will produce an upgrade to fix the issues soon ( assuming they are aware of the issues )

[sayontan]

Plugins and themes interact with core WP functionality using "action hooks" and "filter hooks". These hooks can be used to modify core WP behavior without modifying core WP code. Unfortunately what happens sometimes is that two plugins or a plugin and a theme try to modify the same hook for different purposes and the result is an incongruous outcome. A lot depends on the sequence in which functions are called. Probably what has happened here is that the call in Suffusion was made first, then the results were removed / padded by your plugin