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Essential Grid links not being changed

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Requested: 2 months and 2 days ago

I paid for the pro version as it said that this is the only plugin that would work on plugin links, (which is the only thing I need it for) but unfortunately it hasn’t worked. I notice someone else asked the same thing a while ago but the support enquiry was abandoned.

I’ve yet to find a plugin that would do this but as yet have failed!

Please advise-many thanks

Earl

  1. Hi Earl,

    I’m not familiar with essential grid, however I will likely be able to create a solution if you can send me a link to a page with urls that didn’t update and one of the following:

    1. Database dump of the site

    2. Access to the database either with host and credentials or something like phpmyadmin.

    Cheers

    Mat Lipe

  2. Hi Mat – I notice this was the exact same reply as the previous chap who emailed in. Did you resolve his case?

    Please tell me how to create a Database dump of the site-is it juts a backup of the database?

    Thanks

    e

  3. Hi Earl,

    His ticket was abandoned without ever receiving a response to my question.

    Yes, a backup the database will let me see where the URLs still exist and why they are not replaced.

    Also if you could let me know exactly what OLD and NEW URL you are entering that would help.

    Have a great weekend!

    Mat Lipe

  4. I keep missing your reply as I was waiting for an email – I’ve learnt to check back here now! 🙂

    I’ll send the database in an email now with the links I am trying to update.

    Many thanks

    e

  5. Hi Earl,

    I double checked my server to make sure it was sending emails and I can see the emails are being sent. They are most likely going to your Spam folder. You may be able to white-list @onpointplugins.com to prevent them from going there.

    Thank you so much for providing a database dump. Super helpful.

    I was able to track down the issue so 2 extra \ being added when Essentials Grid escapes the URL it stores in the database. This is most likely due to not using the native strip_slashes support built into WordPress or doing extra escaping. I can’t see for sure without digging in their plugin’s code.

    Luckily the Go Live plugin is very extendable and I was able to write a filter which will account for these extra \ and replace the URL as expected. Adding the following to your active theme’s functions.php file will allow you to run the plugin like normal and have it work for Essential Grid:

    Have a great night!

    Mat Lipe

  6. Hi Mat

    I tried that and it just produces a “critical error” and the site won’t work. I tried both in the themes function file and the one in the child theme without success.

    Please advise – Thanks-earl

  8. Hi Earl,

    Based on the PHP error you provided, it appears something did make it to your function.php file correctly. Possibly the last couple lines did not copy or something else got overridden when it was pasted.

    Please give this a try:

    1. Copy/paste the code I provided above to the top of your child theme’s functions.php file.
    2. Check if the error still exists.
    3. If the error still exists please send me a copy of your functions.php file.
    4. I will fix the file you send me and send it back to you.
    5. You may then replace your functions.php with the one I send you.

  9. Thank you for sending the functions.php file. I found an extra <?php tag in it which is why you were seeing the error.

    I have emailed back to you the corrected version which leaves your original code intact as well as adds this filter.

    Have a great night!

    Mat Lipe

  10. Hi Mat – That worked a treat on the essential grid links, however, it did not work on the links in the code blocks I have on each page (I have emailed you a screen grab of where the links are so you can inspect the code.

    One other question is, if I wanted to use this on another site that I have essential grids on, would I have to add the code to the functions file each time? or will you correct this in an update?

    Many thanks for your continued support!

  11. Hi Earl,

    From what I can tell the “code blocks” you are referring to appear to be created by some kind of Fusion Builder.

    I took a look at the database and found the content of these blocks if obscured by kind of encoding; possibly base64. Unfortunately, this plugin is only able to replace URLs it can read. There is no way to replace URLs that are encoded.

    To use this with Essential Grids you may copy the same filter to other sites as it is a universal filter. It is likely it will make it into the core plugin as some point but for now please use the provided filter.

    Have a great night!

    Mat Lipe

     

  12. Hi Mat – No problem at all, I can get round this another way. thanks again for all your help!

    Earl 🙂

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