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Newsletter Plugin: Broken Image at Bottom of All Newsletters

Added by Mark Webb over 5 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

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2018-08-29
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Description

Hi,

I am writing on behalf of the Center for Place Culture and Politics. We are having an issue with the Newsletter plugin. Every time we send out a newsletter using this plugin there is a broken image with the letters Hr at the bottom. I do not see anything in the html code of the newsletters to indicate why this appears. I have attached what it looks like here. Any ideas what is going on? Thanks!


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Updated by Boone Gorges over 5 years ago

Hi Mark - Could you please attach a copy of an email message here? (You should be able to "Save as" in your email client.) Alternatively, could you please look at the source of the message to see what the URL ('src') of the missing image is?

Actions #3

Updated by Boone Gorges over 5 years ago

Thanks, Mark. Could you please also forward the message to ? The PDF doesn't have all the info I need to debug.

Actions #4

Updated by Boone Gorges over 5 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Reporter Feedback
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Thanks for sending the email along. It looks like the email template is set to include an image at https://cpcp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/plugins/wp-mailinglist/includes/themes/simplyelegant/images/hr-large.gif, which does not exist. See https://cpcp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/admin.php?page=newsletters-themes&method=save&id=6 (and perhaps other templates - I haven't looked). I'm guessing the "hr" means "horizontal rule", which probably means it's meant to be a simple horizontal line. I think you can probably safely delete the image from the template.

Actions #5

Updated by Mark Webb over 5 years ago

Thanks,

I can't seem to find that image when I click on the link to the template. What am I looking for?

Actions #6

Updated by Boone Gorges over 5 years ago

Earlier, when I'd loaded the admin.php URL above, it showed the PCP-customized template. Now, when I click it, I see the default newsletters-lite template, and when I click on the "HTML code" radio button, I see nothing at all. This looks like a series of bugs in the newsletters-lite plugin, and I'm afraid we don't have the resources to do deep-debugging on this kind of tool.

As a workaround, I went into the database and manually removed the string from the template in question. However, the hr-large.gif element is still showing on the preview page: https://cpcp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?wpmlmethod=themepreview&id=6 I started digging into the code to see if there is a stray cache somewhere (that isn't flushed with a regular WP cache flush) but the plugin is very complicated, and I'm unsure how to begin debugging it.

Ray, armed with the information above (and see also the attached script I used to change the value), could you please take a few minutes to see if you can figure out what's going on? Ideally, the dashboard editor would work as designed, but barring that, it would probably be acceptable if the plugin just used the value from the database, as I've rewritten it.

Actions #7

Updated by Raymond Hoh over 5 years ago

Earlier, when I'd loaded the admin.php URL above, it showed the PCP-customized template. Now, when I click it, I see the default newsletters-lite template, and when I click on the "HTML code" radio button, I see nothing at all. This looks like a series of bugs in the newsletters-lite plugin, and I'm afraid we don't have the resources to do deep-debugging on this kind of tool.

I can confirm this behavior.

I think somewhere along the save process, the data got corrupted. Boone, I put a var_dump( $Theme ) call directly after this line:
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/blob/master/wp-content/plugins/newsletters-lite/wp-mailinglist.php#L6756

And locally, the correct template data is shown. On production, the $Theme->data property is empty. That's to the extent of my debugging.


Mark, what I would recommend is to create another email template by duplicating one of the defaults (probably the "Snazzy" template since that looked like what the CPCP site was using), make customizations in this duplicate, and then, set this template as the "Send Default". Next, try previewing the email or send a test to see if it works as expected.

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