You can close it Jordan. I didn’t see a way to do that myself.

Thanks Günter, I just updated to the new version and the issues seem to be fixed.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by mikehartrich.

Yes, it works! Thank you Mike!

Thank you Mike, I’ll try that.

onlylettersandnumbers wants to try the update too. See their comment above.

Hi Mike, I turned off all of the plugins, cleared the cache, and the problem still existed.

I asked the host if they disabled ORDER_BY_RAND() in MySQL queries. The support agent went to look into it and said, I can’t help you. They wouldn’t tell me if it was disabled or not! I will try to go back later and see if I can get a different support agent who will help me.

In the meantime I created a phpinfo() to check if that had anything about the function listed, it didn’t. Is there anything else I can do, any piece of code that could tell me if it’s disabled or not?

Hi Ismael,

Yes the filter was added too. Sorry it was right beneath the comment so I missed it when I copied the other code. Here is what I actually have:

// Randomize the trade category listings so members appear in random order each time
add_filter('avf_magazine_entries_query', 'avf_magazine_entries_custom_query');

function avf_magazine_entries_custom_query ( $query ) {
$query['orderby'] = 'rand';
return $query;
}

• This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by mikehartrich. Reason: Edited to put the code into a code block so it appears correctly

This issue is happening again, the category listings that we want randomized are in fixed position always the same. The order is newest first instead of random.

This code is in the functions.php file:

function avf_magazine_entries_custom_query ( $query ) {
$query['orderby'] = 'rand';
return $query;
}

The pages affected are using the Blog element and each page shows a different blog category, with thumbnail and excerpt. We are using a caching plugin, and host’s CDN (which I found out from our host only caches the images). But I have turned every off, cleared the cache, even had them clear the CDN and also try to find out if it could be the CDN or caching plugin (which the host installed). They said they cannot find any reason for this to be happening on their end. There are rules added to the caching plugin that should exclude these pages. Obviously something is not working.

The caching plugin is called W3TC and in the WP Dashboard it is listed under Performance.

Update: I have now turned off the caching plugin and deleted the caching folder that was left behind. I have cleared the cache on the CDN and turned it off. Still the page is not randomizing. At least now though you should be able to see what is happening without any of the caching interfering.

Since our host recommends, installed and configured this plugin I checked with them and confirmed that add page exceptions (to not be cached) I put those page URLs into a field called “Never cache the following pages:”. I checked that I had the format of the URLs correct (must start with / and don’t need the domain name, only page).

I think the issue is with Enfold. is this code still valid? Can you take a look and see what is going on?

It’s fine to clear the cache, turn the caching plugin off temporarily.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by mikehartrich.

I’d love to create a child theme. We make changes to another file as well so it would really help. I don’t have the budget for it though.

Sorry Ismael, I set up the color section and ID on a different page, and then removed it when it didn’t work. I’ve set it up again on the page in the private data.

The code is set up in the Functionality plugin. We don’t use a child theme, and I don’t have the option to create one due to budget constraints, and of course putting it directly into the functions.php file is a bad idea. The Functionality plugin is supposed to work the same way as a theme’s function.php file.

Yoursefzade, that is a different issue, you should open your own topic for that and include your site details so they can take a look. I am not an Enfold developer nor moderator on this forum, but I know that they will ask you to do that. Otherwise they may not be able to help you.

@Rikard is there any ETA for a fix to this problem?

Hi Rikard,
Thanks for your reply. I downloaded the theme from Themeforest. After reading through the thread you linked to it looked like I could just install as normal through the ‘upload a zip file’ method. But when I tried that I got an error message:

Unpacking the package…
Installing the theme…
Destination folder already exists. /home/santacru/public_html/wp-content/themes/enfold/
Theme installation failed.

So… what do I have to do to get this to work? If I have to upload all of the files manually and overwrite what is there, then I have a question… has there been a change to the comments.php file since version 4.4.1?