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Popup Maker plugin problems

Added by scott voth over 6 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

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Resolved
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WordPress Plugins
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Start date:
2018-06-03
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Description

There seems to be issues with the Popup Maker plugin on the Commons. I tested it on a non-Commons site and it works quite differently (and nicely).

First - after you create up a popup and then go to a page where you want to use it, there is a new tool bar icon. When you click on it, it creates a drop down of two items (Triggers and Subscription Form). Neither of these are working. On my non-Commons site, clicking on Trigger opens up a dialog where you can select which popup you want and whether you want a hyperlink or button trigger.

I got around this by creating a button and using the class, but I notice the first time the page loads, you see the popup content in the footer. See - https://ivanhoetest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/sample-page/ - (has just the one plugin and default theme)

Second - there are five themes for the popup's look and feel - none of them seem to work.

I have attached some screenshots. Thanks!


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popup maker.jpg (11.9 KB) popup maker.jpg scott voth, 2018-06-03 01:05 PM
popup maker 2.jpg (36.1 KB) popup maker 2.jpg scott voth, 2018-06-03 01:05 PM
Screenshot_2018-06-04_13-21-49.png (12.7 KB) Screenshot_2018-06-04_13-21-49.png Boone Gorges, 2018-06-04 02:23 PM
Screenshot_2018-06-04_13-19-22.png (37 KB) Screenshot_2018-06-04_13-19-22.png Boone Gorges, 2018-06-04 02:23 PM
Screenshot_2018-06-04_13-25-17.png (22.2 KB) Screenshot_2018-06-04_13-25-17.png Boone Gorges, 2018-06-04 02:26 PM
Actions #1

Updated by Matt Gold over 6 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Assigned
  • Assignee set to Boone Gorges
Actions #3

Updated by Boone Gorges over 6 years ago

Ray, could you please have a look?

The first issue is a JS error related to shortcode-ui. I don't know enough about how this plugin registers TinyMCE views, so it would likely require me to dig into the TinyMCE internals to figure it out. Ray, I seem to remember that you might've spent a bit of time with shortcode-ui in the past, so maybe you'll have a better idea where to look?

The second issue appears to be that the popup-maker plugin is generating dynamic CSS, but it's not being loaded and interpreted as CSS by the browser. Kind of a guess, but I'm wondering if this has something to do with the way the style URL is generated by the plugin - look at the format in the screenshot (the encoded ampersand). Not sure why this would come up only on the Commons.

Actions #4

Updated by Raymond Hoh over 6 years ago

I spent half an hour trying to debug the JS, but I'm also not well-versed with what PP is doing with TinyMCE views and Shortcake. I've created an issue on their Github repo here.

A workaround is to go to "Popup Maker > Settings > Misc" and check the "Disable the Popup Maker shortcode button" option. This will remove the TinyMCE button. (Can also be done via code with add_filter( 'pum_disable_shortcode_ui', '__return_true' );)

Shortcodes can still work normally by manually typing in the shortcode. The documentation for this is available here:
https://docs.wppopupmaker.com/article/153-shortcode-button

Here's a screenshot that I copied from their documentation:

About the CSS serving as text/plain, could this be an Apache configuration problem? The generated CSS is working locally for me.

Actions #5

Updated by Boone Gorges over 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Assigned to Resolved
  • Target version set to 1.13.3

Yeah, you could also just disable Shortcake. It seems like the plugin is trying to integrate with Shortcake, but the integration is broken. I just spent my own half hour but didn't get close to understanding what's going on :)

On Ray's suggestion, I took a deeper look at the Content-Type declaration for the CSS file and realized that our custom cac-files.php was to blame. The popup-maker plugin (correctly!!) puts generated CSS files into the uploads directory, but our /files/ handler was written in such a way that it wouldn't properly identify files with MIME types that aren't on the upload whitelist. I've corrected it in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/7fd80847403d0380e48c07ce21226f507b97976e, which is live as a hotfix.

I'm going to mark this resolved, because we don't have the resources to debug the popup-maker Shortcake integration any further. Scott, please let us know if you have more issues.

Actions #6

Updated by Raymond Hoh over 6 years ago

  • Target version deleted (1.13.3)

Yeah, you could also just disable Shortcake.

The problem with that is Shortcake is manually included with BP Event Organiser's Group Events shortcode plugin:
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/bp-event-organiser/blob/1.1.x/bp-event-organiser-group-widget.php#L119

And that the Group Events shortcode plugin is network-activated, so it's not possible for a regular site admin to disable this plugin.

Actions #7

Updated by Raymond Hoh over 6 years ago

  • Target version set to 1.13.3

Oops, didn't mean to remove the Target version field!

Actions #8

Updated by scott voth over 6 years ago

Looks good and working now. I have notified Sam Ghelli - Thanks!

Actions #9

Updated by Boone Gorges over 6 years ago

Ah right, Ray. You're correct. Disabling the popup seems fine for now. We could also look into disabling the Shortcake integration (which still allows the TinyMCE button - just not the live preview, if I understand it correctly.) But this is not critical.

Thanks for following up, Scott!

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