CUNY Academic Commons

Actually, reimporting them duplicates them and uncategorized some of the duplicates. So, it is a bug!

Boone Gorges wrote:

Hi Raffi - Could you look through the issues being reported to the author at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/link-library to see if one of them matches what you're reporting here? Some of them sound similar, but I don't know enough about the plugin (read: I don't know anything about it!) to be able to judge.

If you don't see the issue listed there, and can give me specific steps to reproduce, I can take a quick look. I might be able to see fairly quickly what the problem is, and report it to the plugin author.

(For context, the plugin was updated on the Commons on July 24, as part of an update from v5.9.15.7 to 6.0 Beta 9.)

Sounds similar to https://wordpress.org/support/topic/after-update-all-links-are-gone/. I noticed that I can see "Links" as well as the "Link Manager." Perhaps that has something to do with the duplication?

May also be related to https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-links-dissapeared/.

Filed https://wordpress.org/support/topic/after-reimporting-links-duplicate-and-categories-dissappear/.

Thanks for posting that, Raffi. I read through a couple of those threads (which, as an aside, are a small but good illustration of what it's like to be a free software maintainer) and it looks like there are definitely some issues with the 6.0 upgrade routine. Hopefully the plugin author is able to work through the issues with you in the thread you started. Please ping me here if there's something I can do to help (aside from updating the Link Library plugin after its next release).

Boone Gorges wrote:

Thanks for posting that, Raffi. I read through a couple of those threads (which, as an aside, are a small but good illustration of what it's like to be a free software maintainer) and it looks like there are definitely some issues with the 6.0 upgrade routine. Hopefully the plugin author is able to work through the issues with you in the thread you started. Please ping me here if there's something I can do to help (aside from updating the Link Library plugin after its next release).

Thanks, Boone. I am having trouble removing the links from the trash (request URL is too long, apparently). Could we have the plug-in the author suggested? https://wordpress.org/plugins/bulk-delete/

Boone Gorges wrote:

bulk-delete installed in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/446bfc8b10e5db5f6461d8ce15363e8ec0f9f774. It will be available after this morning's release.

Thanks, Boone!

Let's bump the ticket to the next milestone. Raffi, I see that you've had a back-and-forth with the plugin developer - let me know whether/when you think the issue is sufficiently resolved for us to close this ticket (or if there's something you need me to do to intervene).

I just worked around it. It seems it only happens as a result of an initial import after the upgrade. It's not great because I probably didn't notice it for some time and it was a pain to resolve manually. No further action on this end needed. Thanks again!