Jeez, guys. You’re good!

That did it.

Can’t thank you enough for your help

Thanks for your thoughts. I’ve turned off extensions and cleared cookies. remember that this happens on three different browsers so malware might be a possibility, but Malwarebytes shows no issues. It’s all just confusing and annoying and I can seem to get no handle on it. However, I’ll keep trying! :-)

Latest update is that, after some time Opera began acting in the same way, ie reloading everything. Admittedly, it was a much quicker reload, but still it happened. So now I’m going back to Chrome but using an incognito window. The only minor annoyance is that I have to copy and paste my credentials to login, but, fingers crossed, there is no reloading going on… at least for the time being.
Still haven’t been able to identify the culprit, but if/when I do I’ll break open the champagne!
No need to respond to this.
I’ll keep this open in case anything else happens.

Well. the good news is that I can edit in Opera using my normal account. However, when the page or post to be edited is loading, I see a warning in the address bar of content being blocked. I can see nothing which is missing from the backend.
I can therefore only conjecture that there is some setting in Chrome and Firefox which is causing this and which is absent in Opera. I have previously tried turning off all plugins and extensions in Chrome but that had no effect.
I don’t know if this will be of any use to any others on this forum, but I offer it for what it’s worth; if you have issues writing or editing in either Chrome or Firefox, try Opera…
Fingers crossed that this situation will last!! :-)

I genuinely don’t know if you can reproduce the problem. After all, my wife, on an identical machine, has no problems. It must be something about my machine, I suppose, but how that could affect only one WP site and not others is beyond me. The fact that it happens in two different browsers is also strange.
I’ve searched online, I’ve been to Mac forums, to wpengine, to wordpress and to you and I still have no clue as to why it happens or what might be causing it. I must admit, coming to you was my last resort. I don’t know why pages and posts reload, only that it happens only in Enfold and only on my machine and in Firefox and Chrome. Anything else I do in the admin area, such as reply to comments, apply settings to plugins and so on, they all work normally. Only when I edit pages or posts do I have the issue.
Thanks for trying to resolve the issue which I suspect has little to do with the theme. At least I know I’ve tried every avenue open to me (apart from buying a new machine).
If you have any ideas at all, please let me know because I’m out of them.
Thanks again.

All I’m seeing on themeforest is version 4.5.1 for download. Where is the version you referenced, 4.5.7?

Plus, if this is how this is to work in the future, how do I know if there is an update if it’s not now showing in the admin area on wordpress?

Thanks

Many thanks. I’ll try this later today. If you hear nothing it will have worked :-)

After looking more carefully, I see that there were extra links added to the menu which acted to push it over. the reason it looked wrong was because the extra links were in black, instead of white text. Which leads me to the next problem with this menu. I’ve set the links for the main menu to be white text on black backgrounds (as you could see in the image. However, the new links were black on black. I’ve tried adding quick CSS such as

#menu-item-4583 > a >.avia-menu-text {
color: #ffffff !important}

but this did nothing for the new links (which I’ve got rid of).

I’ve also tried .avia-menu-text {color: #ffffff !important} as a way of forcing menu links to be white, but this still did not work with the new links. Is there some way of forcing all top menu links which will be added from now on to be white on black that I’m missing? At least then I’ll know if it’s some peculiar new link arriving because I’ll be able to see it!!

Many thanks

Thanks. That’s what I feared :-)

Thank you. I have no idea why it didn’t work when I set it! Perhaps it just doesn’t like me :-(
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to look into it!

Nigel

Details sent. Didn’t see any change.

Thanks

Sorry for the delay.

Finally got round to trying this out on a staging site.

I installed and activated the child theme, then followed the directions for the coding but it doesn’t work. Looking at the Woocommerce documentation, I tried altering the file path, ignoring the ‘template’ subdirectory, but still no luck.
This worked for me when I directly altered the original file, but I must have done something different this time, because it is not redirecting properly to the new store url.

I’ve tried wp-content/themes/enfold-child/woocommerce/cart/cart-empty.php
and wp-content/themes/enfold-child/woocommerce/templates/cart/cart-empty.php and, in both cases, copied and pasted the url I want in the appropriate location in that file.

As it’s a staged site, the url is different to the original coding, and that’s the only thing which I can think of as being different.

What else could I be missing?
Any help or suggestions gratefully received!

Thanks for those ideas.

Actually, I’ve found a simpler way of doing it and thought it might be helpful if I share it here for others in similar situations.

Firstly, the shortcode [add_to_cart_url id=”123″] does not seem to play nicely and (as of this post’s date) has been noted to produce odd results.

However…. If I create a button in Enfold, I can then use the following link to direct them to the cart page directly (and, of course, have it styled and say what I want): The link is
http://mywebsite.com/?add-to-cart=123 (with the numbers at the end being the product id)

Of course, you could also make the button however you wanted, as long as it has this link in it.

Much simpler and cleaner! For those who are looking for more details to pass with the button, I suggest you check out https://nicolamustone.com/2015/09/18/creating-custom-add-to-cart-url/

Hope this helps others resolve this issue!!