Miscellaneous Issues During Test

[imfaisalkh]

I'm testing MerlinWP with my theme on my local installation. It surely seems a big improvement in end-user UX. Props for that. That being said, I encountered a few issues during my testing.

1: If WP_DEBUG is enabled I'm getting following errors on onboarding screen. This error is triggered as soon as I get to the "Import Content" step OR I start the onboarding process again after finishing it.

2: After import, "Menus" are not assigned to their respective theme location. The user manually has to assign them after the import process. And if the user visits the "Menus" page to assign the menu he encounters the following error. However, once the menu is assigned this error goes away.

3: The Posts page is also not assigned automatically, it requires manual action. Although, the Front page is assigned automatically.

4: On firefox, during onboarding process the image is not aligned centered:

5: If for some reason the plugin installation fails, it still shows big green arrow mark at the top, which seems confusing.

Note: I'm using WordPress v4.9.8 and PHP v5.6.25.

[SecondLineThemesHQ]

1. What are the exact PHP errors are you getting? Looks like this might be related to one of the plugins you are using.

2. Are you positive you added the menu configuration properly?

3. Same for the posts page setting ^

We couldn't find issues with the navigation or page_for_post setting in the few tests we ran.

[richtabor]

1. You may need to manually config your menus, like this. In the sample filters file there's an example of how to add your demo content's menu, options and home/posts page.

2. You can use this filter if your homepage on the demo content is not named "Home".

3. You can use this filter if your posts page on the demo content is not named "Blog".

I'll look into the other issues. 👍

[imfaisalkh]

Thanks, I didn't know about the filters. It worked like a charm. Now issue number 2 and 3 are solved and 1, 4 and 5 are remaining. I'll keep an eye for any update.

[richtabor]

5: If for some reason the plugin installation fails, it still shows big green arrow mark at the top, which seems confusing.

I'm not sure what we'd want to do here. The check marks the end of the step and the procession of the next one.

[richtabor]

1: If WP_DEBUG is enabled I'm getting following errors on onboarding screen. This error is triggered as soon as I get to the "Import Content" step OR I start the onboarding process again after finishing it.

Can you paste the actual errors?

[imfaisalkh]

Sorry for the delay in reply. As for point # 1, the issue seems to be caused because of a plugin named 'Profile Builder". Following is the more easy to understand version of the error.

and the following is the exact code which is causing issue from the plugin.

Do you think I should contact the original plugin author or is it something which you can fix on merlin wp?

[imfaisalkh]

5: If for some reason the plugin installation fails, it still shows big green arrow mark at the top, which seems confusing.

I'm not sure what we'd want to do here. The check marks the end of the step and the procession of the next one.

I understand the checkmark shows completion of the step, irrespective of whether all or any plugin is installed correctly or not, but I think from UX aspect, if any plugin installation fails it should say so below check mark (e.g. "Some plugin(s) were not installed correctly.") otherwise user could be under an illusion that he had installed all plugins correctly.