Anyways. Shit happens. Didn’t want to be in your skin yesterday ;)
Glad you’ve reacted quickly though.
Just a wish from my side: Please keep people informed if such a major issue happened. You have the licensees email addresses also for that reason.
The time you’ve discovered a major break happened and as well when it's been fixed, including a guide on how to restore functionality.
Long story short, a client website basically crashed because the auto-update to v9.5.6 installed a faulty theme package which is missing crucial files such as the style.css or other functional php files.
I assume this issue is not unknown to the developer team.
I didn’t read anything about this in the (outdated!) change log on the website (https://laytheme.com/version-history.html).
In terms of vulnerability concerns I kindly ask to give full transparency regarding this issue.
Did someone just sleep and publish a wrong release or is this a security issue which needs further attention?
LOG
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[15:17:11] Start comparing "/Lay Theme Versions/lay 9.5.5" ↔ "/Lay Theme Versions/lay 9.5.6"
[15:17:11] Scanning "/Lay Theme Versions/lay 9.5.5"
[15:17:11] Found 763 entries
[15:17:11] Scanning "/Lay Theme Versions/lay 9.5.6"
[15:17:11] Found 628 entries
[15:17:11] Creating stats for diff result
[15:17:11] Compared 1391 entries
SETTINGS
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Abort on Error: true
Excludes: "**/.DS_Store", "**/.git", "**/.hg", "**/.svn", "**/CVS", "**/node_modules"
Ignore Contents: false
Ignore End of Line: true
Ignore Byte Order Mark: true
Ignore Leading/Trailing Whitespace: false
Max File Size: 0
Use Case Sensitive: false
INFO
---
Compared: "/Lay Theme Versions/lay 9.5.5" ↔ "/Users/admin/Downloads/Lay Theme Versions/lay 9.5.6"
Entries: 1391 (1124 files, 267 folders)
Size: 18.84 MB (19753611 Bytes)
Left Path: "/Lay Theme Versions/lay 9.5.5"
Entries: 763 (615 files, 148 folders)
Size: 9.84 MB (10322053 Bytes)
Right Path: "/Lay Theme Versions/lay 9.5.6"
Entries: 628 (509 files, 119 folders)
Size: 8.99 MB (9431558 Bytes)
RESULT
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Comparisons: 763
Diffs: 159
Conflicts: 0
Created: 0
Deleted: 135 (106 files, 29 folders)
Modified: 24 (48 files)
Unchanged: 604 (970 files, 238 folders)
Ignored: 0
I fixed the client website by manually installing v9.5.5 and disabling auto-updates.
For everyone else, here is the code for the two shortcodes. Not the most elegant solution, but it does what it should do:
<?php
function lay_previous_post_thumbnail_shortcode() {
global $post;
$prev_post = get_previous_post(false); // Remove category restriction
if ($prev_post && $prev_post->ID === $post->ID) {
$prev_post = null; // Reset if it's the same as the current post
}
if (!$prev_post) {
// No previous post found, get the first post
$first_post = get_posts(array(
'numberposts' => 1,
'order' => 'DESC',
'orderby' => 'date',
'post_status' => 'publish'
));
if (empty($first_post)) {
return 'No posts available.'; // Display message when no posts found
}
$prev_post = $first_post[0];
}
$prev_post_id = $prev_post->ID;
$thumbnail_id = get_post_thumbnail_id($prev_post_id);
$thumbnail = wp_get_attachment_image_src($thumbnail_id, 'full');
$project_description = get_post_meta($prev_post_id, 'lay_project_description', true);
$markup = '<a class="layprevproject thumb" style="" href="#layprevproject">';
$markup .= '<div class="thumb-rel">';
$padding_bottom = ($thumbnail[1] != 0) ? ($thumbnail[2]/$thumbnail[1]*100) : 0;
$markup .= '<div class="ph" style="padding-bottom: ' . $padding_bottom . '%; ">';
$markup .= '<img src="' . esc_url($thumbnail[0]) . '" style="position: absolute;top: 0;left: 0;width: 100%;height: auto;" alt="Previous Post Thumbnail">';
$markup .= '</div>';
$markup .= '</div>';
$markup .= '<div class="lay-textformat-parent below-image"><span class="descr">';
$markup .= $project_description;
$markup .= '</span></div>';
$markup .= '</a>';
return $markup;
}
add_shortcode('lay_previous_post_thumbnail', 'lay_previous_post_thumbnail_shortcode');
function lay_next_post_thumbnail_shortcode() {
global $post;
$next_post = get_next_post(false); // Remove category restriction
if ($next_post && $next_post->ID === $post->ID) {
$next_post = null; // Reset if it's the same as the current post
}
if (!$next_post) {
// No next post found, get the last post
$last_post = get_posts(array(
'numberposts' => 1,
'order' => 'ASC',
'orderby' => 'date',
'post_status' => 'publish'
));
if (empty($last_post)) {
return 'No posts available.'; // Display message when no posts found
}
$next_post = $last_post[0];
}
$next_post_id = $next_post->ID;
$thumbnail_id = get_post_thumbnail_id($next_post_id);
$thumbnail = wp_get_attachment_image_src($thumbnail_id, 'full');
$project_description = get_post_meta($next_post_id, 'lay_project_description', true);
$markup = '<a class="laynextproject thumb" style="" href="#laynextproject">';
$markup .= '<div class="thumb-rel">';
$padding_bottom = ($thumbnail[1] != 0) ? ($thumbnail[2]/$thumbnail[1]*100) : 0;
$markup .= '<div class="ph" style="padding-bottom: ' . $padding_bottom . '%; ">';
$markup .= '<img src="' . esc_url($thumbnail[0]) . '" style="position: absolute;top: 0;left: 0;width: 100%;height: auto;" alt="Next Post Thumbnail">';
$markup .= '</div>';
$markup .= '</div>';
$markup .= '<div class="lay-textformat-parent below-image"><span class="descr">';
$markup .= $project_description;
$markup .= '</span></div>';
$markup .= '</a>';
return $markup;
}
add_shortcode('lay_next_post_thumbnail', 'lay_next_post_thumbnail_shortcode');
Hi there,
I was wondering if anyone has experience with using LayThumbnail class to display next/prev project thumbnails automatically at the end of a project using the globally defined (via Customizing ▸ Project Thumbnails) thumbnail settings.
I want to create a shortcode for next and one for prev, placed in the project footer.
Thanks!
Dear @mariusjopen
It’s been a time, but I want to get back because I am facing this issue again.
I think you misunderstood me here. I wanted to request a feature with the post. :)
In the admin panel under the menu item "Lay Options" → "Cover Options" is the setting "Darken Cover when scrolling down".
This option darkens the cover region from 1 to 0 via the CSS filter brightness in realtion to the scrolling depth.
My suggestion was to add another option to the "Darken Cover when scrolling down" option alternatively or in addition. For example "Change opacity instead of darken the cover region".
The only difference is that now instead of "filter: brightness(var)" "opacity: var" is changed inline.
This would extend the possibilities you get with the cover option:
For example, instead of darkening everything, you could hide the background image of the cover by the opacity loss. Or a color could become visible. etc.
I don't know if you are open to suggestions for improvement... If so, I hope this is something other users are also looking for.
Thank you! Best
(can't edit the initial post)
Or even better: Another option to change the opacity. So it turns to the body background-color.
This is pretty nice when the rows have a transparent background.
Hi Lay Community!
As I am working on a design which is using high key images as main visuals the entire appearance is very light and clear.
Therefore I would like to change the "Darken Cover when scrolling down" option to a "Lighten Cover when scrolling down".
@mariusjopen @arminunruh I therefore would like to make a suggestion to rather changing the option to "Change Brightness when scrolling down" with a brightness (%) control compared to the one from the project thumbnail hover customizer section.
What do you think about it?
And: Is there a workaround which is quickly applied?
Thanks,
C
Hey @mariusjopen
thanks for the input. I duplicated the page and deleted the duplicate. The faulty page could restored to have a further look.
Adding an empty row and saving the original afterwards solved the problem for that page.
Thanks.
Thanks for the response. Thats exactly the current setting. I did send you an email with the necessary information. Thank you!
Hi again.
Unfortunately the bug appeared again.
This time another page is affected, which wasn't before. Please have a look at:
http://2017.mono-space.com/jobs
I will leave the page untouched so you might figure out whats wrong.
Best,
Christoph
Hi!
Unfortunately the desktop version of our website is not running. There is a strange error in the console.
Have a look: 2017.mono-space.com
It appeared after saving the permalinks settings page - pretty links are applied.
One more thing which might help identifying the error:
Before the whole website broke, the projects category archive page had ‘category’ inside of the url right before the actual category slug.
Besides that some pages are running regularly. Also single projects are displayed correctly.
Thanks for your help. Much appreciated.
Edit: I was able to restore the functionality by saving the affected pages after a simple change like adding an empty row.
But still the having 'category' in the slug, which wasn't there before.
I am just questioning why the categories aren't hierarchical, as the category taxonomy usually is by default.
Did the setting cause any trouble? I would like to activate it in a child-theme, so I can output categories automatically with a shortcode as a list inside a project.
I would like to create a child theme and comment the include of "/assets/plugins/radio-buttons-for-taxonomies/radio-buttons-for-taxonomies.php"
in the functions.php
Seems to work, though ... Anyone tried that before?
Thanks!