Site automatically refreshes in certain browsers when switching between desktop and mobile styles

[alexbruno]

Site here

In Chrome (Mac/PC/iOS) and Safari (iOS), some pages will automatically refresh when switching between desktop/mobile styles (video example ). The automatic refreshing doesn't seem to happen in Firefox (Mac).

I think it has to do with custom phone layouts? For example, this page does not have a phone layout setup, and does not refresh when switching between mobile/desktop CSS.

Wondering if this is a technical necessity of the phone layout feature, maybe to render new HTML? Or a bug? I tried searching the documentation for info on automatic page refreshing but didn't see anything.

If there's any other info I can provide please let me know. Appreciate any help!

Thank you.

[mariusjopen]

Dear @alexbruno
the page should not refresh on resize.
Do you use any plugins or custom code?

Best!

Marius

[alexbruno]

Hi @mariusjopen

Thank you for the clarification.

I've tried removing all custom css + html, deactivating all WP plugins, deactivating Chrome extensions, and clearing the cache, but the auto-refresh still happens on some pages.

Still trying to narrow down what is making the refresh happen on these particular pages.

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Some details about my install:

• LayTheme version: 2.7.6
• Wordpress version: 5.2.1
• Apache Version: 2.4.39
• PHP Version: 7.2.13
• MySQL Version: 10.2.12-MariaDB-log

[alexbruno]

When I click on the URL for "work" in my primary navigation, this is what network inspector shows:

When I resize the page and it auto-refreshes, this is what it shows:

So maybe there's an extra redirect being added in here that's causing the issue... ?

Sorry for multiple posts, just trying to keep track of the problem.

[mariusjopen]

Dear @alexbruno
ok. Thank you for going so deep in it to explain the issue.

We will have a look and see what is going on.

:-)

All the best and thank you for using LayTheme.

Marius

[alexbruno]

Thank you Marius. I'll keep testing + posting results in the meantime.

[arminunruh]

Hey,

When you use a shortcode in your website, your page will refresh.
This is to make shortcodes work properly with lay theme.

I see you use a shortcode as your footer menu, you could try to make the footer not use a shortcode.

[alexbruno]

Armin, thank you very much! This is indeed what is happening.

The presence of a shortcode module (even with my shortcode plugin deactivated) will cause the page to refresh upon resizing the browser window to mobile/desktop width.