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Last updated by Minesh 13 hours, 50 minutes ago.

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#2846492
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I am trying to: Make post reference field working again

Link to a page where the issue can be seen: Any of the deliveries i.e hidden link

I expected to see: The dealer post reference field value should be displayed same as here - hidden link

Instead, I got: No value shown

#2846557

Minesh
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Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

I checked but I could not able to spot the dealer information template you use. Can you please share Elementor templtae link where you added that dealear information?

#2846560

Hi there,

This is the link to the Elementor template used - hidden link

#2846567

Minesh
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Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)

Ok - when I checked further, I see there is no dealer associated with that post in backend when I edit the post and strange thing is that even I can not attach the dealer:
- hidden link

#2846595

Yes, that's the issue we're encountering. It was working before. I tried re-saving the custom fields settings. I also created a new custom type and tried the post reference field and also tried using Post instead of dealer just to find which exactly is causing the issue. I've ran out of things to try and have also deactivated most of the plugins on the site.

We have other websites that is using Post Reference but they're still all working so not sure what made this site different.

#2846778

Minesh
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Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)

That is really strange.

I just with my local test installation where I have added post reference field and it works without any issues.

Can you check with brand new installation and setup a post reference field and check if that works, if yes that means and that confirm the situation that the issue is with your site.

In that case:
Could you please try to resolve your issue by deactivating all third-party plugins as well as the default theme to check for any possible conflicts with any of the plugins or themes?
- Do you see any difference? if no:

I will require test site where I can add/delete plugins as well as perform deep troubleshooting.

#2846783

I will try switching a different theme and also deactivating/reactivating the Elementor and Toolset plugins.

This is already the test site you can perform deep troubleshooting - hidden link

#2846785

I wonder if it's also caused by a recent change we did and just didn't notice this issue when reviewing the site.
We migrated from Flywheel to Siteground as a Multisite. Here's the site on Flywheel with the same delivery item in the reference above - hidden link

The site is now split as separate stand alone single WP sites. I wonder if this changed something in Toolset?
That's the only major change I can think of that could have caused this.

#2846813

Minesh
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Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)

As you shared details that you moved the site to new host/server. How exactly you moved the site?

Have you used plugins like duplicator or ALL in One WP migration?

What if you setup a new test site on your new host and add a post reference field and check if that works with this new test site on your new server?

#2846819

We availed Siteground migration service so we don't know what method/plugins they used exactly.

We do actually have a new site in development on Siteground with the similar set-up of using the Post Reference field. Here's an example delivery page - hidden link

So this confirms your question that Post Reference field works on a new site.

I will try re-creating Dealer and Delivery as new post type on the test site hidden link and see if that makes a difference.

#2847516

I tried deleting the Dealer and Delivery items as well as the post type and imported it directly from the site where the Post Reference was still working - hidden link

Post Reference field still doesn't work on the test site, see here - hidden link

What else can we look into? Thanks

#2847541

Minesh
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Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)

What if you drop the idea of using post-refernce field and create one-to-many post-relationship instead. Will that work for you?

#2847556

I actually tried that last time and tried just now and encountered this error "An error when creating a relationship "Dealers Deliveries": No relationship with slug "dealer-delivery" was found."

I can't seem to attach the screenshot.

#2847668

I tried using ACF to see if the Post Reference works for Dealer and it did - hidden link

The old value is gone so need to enter it again.

Something happened with the Post Reference and have already tried everything I can think of.

We can wait for another 24hrs for another suggestion.
If there's nothing else you can suggest we try, then I think we will just switch to ACF for now.

#2847671

Minesh
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Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)

Well - I do not know the actual site history and I do not see any other reproted the same issue in recent time. It could be due to confclit of slugs or anythings else.

That is why I asked you to create a brand new test site and create Dealers and Delivery post type and also create post reference field and try to add few posts and check if that works.

What if you try to download the latest Toolset Blocks plugin from the Downloads page and replace it with your existing one.
- https://toolset.com/account/downloads/

Does that helps to solve the issue?