[Resolved] Post Fields turned off

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[ellenB]

I recently discovered that three of my Post Field Groups were inactive. I am unable to verify if this was user or software error and I did not have error logging turned on when this happened.

I have two questions:

1: I added the following to wp-config.php:

define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);

ini_set('log_errors',TRUE);
ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);
ini_set('error_log', dirname(__FILE__) . '/error_log.txt');

Will that capture when Post Field Groups are set to inactive? I know that, without any logs, it is difficult to troubleshoot so am planning for any future issues.

2) Have you ever seen Post Field Groups spontaneously getting turned to Inactive (e.g. without a user making that change)? If so, is there a setting that I need to adjust to keep this from happening in the future?

Thank you in advance for your response.

[Noman]

Hi Ellen,

Thank you for contacting Toolset support.

1. Enabling WP_DEBUG mode will not log this behavior, it is only to log code related errors in WP themes or plugins or WP core.

2. Have you ever seen Post Field Groups spontaneously getting turned to Inactive.
==> No, there is no such issue reported before. And to be honest Types will not do this at its own, unless someone manually changes it mistakenly or tries to hook into that while enhancing toolset features through our API or modify the database tables. I also just searched for it but cannot find any similar issue as this one.

The alternate way, would be to disable automatic plugin updates in WordPress and track WP activity (of users) using any of these plugins:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/aryo-activity-log/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-history/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-activity-log/

Thank you

[ellenB]

Thank you for the information, Noman!