Webcomic Post content Only Shows Latest Comic's

[Mihari]

As the subject says, the webcomic postbit only shows the latest comics text area, the title, and meta data all changes correctly, but the post does not.

[mgsisk]

Can you link to an example? Dynamic navigation is usually the culprit, but this doesn't quite sound like a dynamic navigation issue…

[Mihari]

http://paprika.katbox.net/
http://peterandcompany.katbox.net/
http://addictivescience.katbox.net/

Any of our newest comics using the latest inkblot seem to be having the issue.

[Mihari]

I already checked the child theme and made sure the webcomic/content.php and the webcomic/display.php that were altered for our purposes were only different with the widget areas I added, so it's not the child theme.

[Mihari]

For the record this is Inkblot 4.3

[mgsisk]

That's… really interesting. It took me a minute to see what was going on. XD I'm not even sure this is an Inkblot issue, actually; I'd assume Webcomic is the culprit, but it's hard to tell. Which Webcomic are you using?

[Mihari]

Version 4.3.2

[mgsisk]

Can you try removing the Select a collection dropdown from the Webcomic nav's? I'm tempted to believe those are causing the trouble…

[Mihari]

Removing them did resolve the incorrect display.

[Mihari]

I was wondering how something like this could escape the majority of users, but being the dropdowns would do that.

[mgsisk]

Well that's really annoying. Didn't I already fix this once? Specifically because it was causing issues on The Katbox? XD Those are just [Webcomic] Collections widgets, right?

[Mihari]

Well, yes, but I don't know about it being specifically because of the Katbox. I just seem to notice all the issues most people don't use! :D

However, yes, it is that one, funny too tho, cause we were just talking about the dropdowns recently in the chat. XD

[mgsisk]

Yeah, it was mgsisk/webcomic#186

I was (mostly) joking about fixing it for Katbox; it shouldn't be doing that for anyone. In fact it really shouldn't be doing that now; I'm not even sure how that's happening on those sites, because if you're using Webcomic 4.3.2 you should already have the fix.

The exact line numbers might be off, but can you check /webcomic/-/php/tags.php for:

public static function webcomic_dropdown_collections( $args = array() ) {
    global $post; $temp_post = $post;

    …[lots of code in here]…

    $post = $temp_post;

    return apply_filters( 'webcomic_dropdown_collections', $output, $r );
}

It should start on or around line 2496.

[Mihari]

    public static function webcomic_dropdown_collections( $args = array() ) {
        global $post; $temp_post = $post;

        $r = wp_parse_args( $args, array(
            'select_name'      => 'webcomic_collections',
            'id'               => '',
            'class'            => '',
            'before'           => '',
            'after'            => '',
            'show_option_all'  => '',
            'show_option_none' => '',
            'hide_empty'       => true,
            'hide_if_empty'    => true,
            'collection'       => '',
            'order'            => 'ASC',
            'orderby'          => '',
            'callback'         => '',
            'webcomics'        => false,
            'webcomic_order'   => 'ASC',
            'webcomic_orderby' => 'date',
            'show_count'       => false,
            'target'           => 'archive',
            'selected'         => ''
        ) );

        extract( $r );

        $selected    = $selected ? $selected : self::get_webcomic_collection();
        $collections = self::get_webcomic_collections( true );

        if ( 'name' === $orderby ) {
            usort( $collections, array( 'WebcomicTag', 'sort_webcomic_collections_name' ) );
        } elseif ( 'slug' === $orderby ) {
            usort( $collections, array( 'WebcomicTag', 'sort_webcomic_collections_slug' ) );
        } elseif ( 'count' === $orderby ) {
            usort( $collections, array( 'WebcomicTag', 'sort_webcomic_collections_count' ) );
        } elseif ( 'updated' === $orderby ) {
            usort( $collections, array( 'WebcomicTag', 'sort_webcomic_collections_updated' ) );
        }

        if ( 'DESC' === $order ) {
            $collections = array_reverse( $collections );
        }

        $output = $options = '';

        foreach ( $collections as $v ) {
            if ( ( $readable_count = wp_count_posts( $v[ 'id' ], 'readable' ) and 0 < ( $readable_count->publish + $readable_count->private ) ) or !$hide_empty ) {
                if ( !$collection or $v[ 'id' ] === $collection ) {
                    $readable_count   = $readable_count ? $readable_count->publish + $readable_count->private : 0;
                    $collection_title = apply_filters( 'webcomic_collection_dropdown_title', $v[ 'name' ], $v );

                    if ( $webcomics ) {
                        $the_posts = new WP_Query( array( 'posts_per_page' => -1, 'post_type' => $v[ 'id' ], 'order' => $webcomic_order, 'orderby' => $webcomic_orderby ) );

                        if ( $the_posts->have_posts() ) {
                            if ( $callback ) {
                                $options .= call_user_func( $callback, $v, $r, $the_posts );
                            } else {
                                $options .= '<optgroup label="' . $collection_title . ( $show_count ? " ({$readable_count})" : '' ) . '">';

                                while ( $the_posts->have_posts() ) { $the_posts->the_post();
                                    $options .= '<option value="' . get_the_ID() . '" data-webcomic-url="' . apply_filters( 'the_permalink', get_permalink() ) . '"' . ( $selected === get_the_ID() ? ' selected' : '' ) . '>' . apply_filters( 'collection_dropdown_webcomic_title', the_title( '', '', false ), get_post(), $i ) . '</option>';
                                }

                                $options .= '</optgroup>';
                            }
                        }
                    } else {
                        $options .= $callback ? call_user_func( $callback, $v, $r ) : '<option value="' . $v[ 'id' ] . '" data-webcomic-url="' . ( 'archive' === $target ? get_post_type_archive_link( $v[ 'id' ] ) : self::get_relative_webcomic_link( $target, false, false, '', $v[ 'id' ] ) ) . '"' . ( $selected === $v[ 'id' ] ? ' selected' : '' . '>' ) . $collection_title . ( $show_count ? " ({$readable_count})" : '' ) . '</option>';
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        if ( $options or !$hide_if_empty ) {
            $output = $before . '<select' . ( $select_name ? ' name="' . esc_attr( $select_name ) . '"' : '' ) . ( $id ? ' id="' . esc_attr( $id ) . '"' : '' ) . ' class="' . implode( ' ', array_merge( array( 'webcomic-collections' ), ( array ) $class ) ) . '">' . ( $show_option_all ? '<option value="0"' . ( 0 === $selected ? ' selected' : '' ) . '>' . $show_option_all . '</option>' : '' ) . ( $show_option_none ? '<option value="-1"' . ( -1 === $selected ? ' selected' : '' ) . '>' . $show_option_none . '</option>' : '' ) . $options . '</select>' . $after;
        }

        $post = $temp_post;

        return apply_filters( 'webcomic_dropdown_collections', $output, $r );
    }

[mgsisk]

I'll admit, this one still has me stumped. If anyone else has experienced this issue please chime in.

[Mihari]

We can try that debug code this Wednesday if you like, or if you want to arrange a time sooner, let me know.

[metafarion]

I'm experiencing something similar to this, except in my case it DOES appear that dynamic navigation is causing it. If I disable dynamic navigation, all the page content changes as expected. With it enabled, the image and meta data change, but the post content does not. Webcomic 4.3.2 and Inkblot 4.5.2.

[Marajade208]

Metafarion, thank you for your post! I was having the same issue with the posts and when I unchecked the dynamic navigation, it fixed the problem. Thank goodness for an easy fix! So immensely helpful, I was stressing.

[metafarion]

It's an effective fix in a pinch, but it sure would be nice if we could get DN working to cut down on loading and scrolling :-P

[mgsisk]

@metafarion and @Marajade208, can you provide a links to your sites?

[metafarion]

Ok, since the site is not in production yet, I'm switching back to vanilla Inkblot and re-enabling dynamic navigation so you can see: http://elainetipping.com/peter-pan/

Something I just noticed actually: I'm using the Webcomic Homepage template, and the main tag where the post content resides is not within the post-webcomic div which has the data-webcomic-container attribute. That's necessary for DN to work isn't it?

[Marajade208]

http://pastelmancer.com/

[Marajade208]

There's a lot of pressure on my end to make the site as customized as possible. My client (who's actually doing the web comic) loves the layout of a lot of the comics on http://www.thehiveworks.com/
I am really enjoying your theme @mgsisk