WP: curriculum site wordpress problems

[stenington]

The curriculum Wordpress site has a few ongoing issues. Some pages break regularly after deployments from staging, and there seem to be translation problems happening as well.

Iridescent-CM/technovation-wp#94
Iridescent-CM/technovation-wp#93

We're trying to collect additional information on the problems and coping mechanisms.

[hellafitz]

@rsgonzal to follow up

Questions for Maggie (for each ticket, if possible)

• What patterns she’s seeing?
• How much time it takes to correct the error(s)
• What has to be done to do the fix
• If the fixes are permanent (at least until the next deployment)
• [bonus/stretch: document the process she's using]

[rsgonzal]

Maggie has been documenting when pages break here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Cp1JkGNMENTlTtJ64jw9mIwQZZCz1FGye3Q-FaR02V0/edit#gid=1347862427

[rsgonzal]

Blank pages are more common that the broken styles
Translation drop-down on curriculum pages breaks

What patterns she’s seeing?

• trying to see if it's certain modules she's using, but hasn't seen anything
• thought maybe it's pages with the blue box announcement : https://technovationchallenge.org/curriculum-intro/registered/
  or with the translation dropdown: https://technovationchallenge.org/curriculum/getting-started/
  but it's not consistant

How much time it takes to correct the error(s)

• if she knows what pages are broken, it's doesn't take very long
• maybe a minute or two per page
• gets confusing when she doesn't know which pages are broken, the circle tool helps with that but it still doesn't tell her which translation boxes are broken.
  ^^this takes longer to do, when she sees pages consistently breaking she adds them to spreadsheet to check them. Takes ~20 mins once or twice a week

What has to be done to do the fix
Fixes are permanent until the next deployment

• open Beaver Builder on production and just saving - this is quick fix
• open broken page on staging using Beaver builder, make a very small edit, save change and publish and push live - better practice and page doesn't break again, but other pages still break

[rsgonzal]

Has also tried clearing the Beaver Builder cache before pushing live (as well as after) and it didn't make a difference. Broken pages were still broken.

[hellafitz]

@rsgonzal to check in with Maggie and get a status update

[rsgonzal]

from maggie:

They have not broken in many many weeks (since April 9 or so). We also have not made that many updates to them recently so I don't know that the glitch itself is solved for good, but it's been pretty smooth, even for the non-curriculum pages that were also occasionally breaking.
I imagine the problem might re-emerge in the late summer/fall as we make more extensive edits to the curriculum, but for now things are good.

[rsgonzal]

There is a different glitch now:

• italics styling seems to be broken across the site (on both production and staging). If text is in italics or set to italics, it defaults to Times New Roman italics. If it's changed to "default" styling, it reverts back to poppins.
• my "fix" has just been to remove the italics styling when I come across it.
• It doesn't seem to matter whether it was set in the text editor using the format buttons or in the module settings themselves.

• Another error that would be super strange if was related is the little icon modules seem to default to italics (and I don't know how to fix that) -- you can see one example in the sidebar on the judge page: https://www.technovationchallenge.org/judge
  

[hellafitz]

@rsgonzal do you know if these issues have been resolved?