Change of behavior in 2.9.1

[gzohop]

Change of behavior in 2.9.1

[billerickson]

I don't see how making the query a globally accessible variable would affect the query results. Do you have any code that is modifying display posts or the $dps_listing variable that might be conflicting with it?

Do you happen to have a staging site available? I'd love to hop in and debug the issue on your site without affecting your live website.

[gzohop]

I don't see how making the query a globally accessible variable would affect the query results. Do you have any code that is modifying display posts or the $dps_listing variable that might be conflicting with it?

That's weird for me to.
I have not found any references to $dps_listing, I have tried even renaming it
but it does not change behavior.

Do you happen to have a staging site available? I'd love to hop in and debug the issue on your site without affecting your live website.

What kind of access would you need, shell access to the OS?(because it might be problematic :/)
Can you give me some ideas where to start debuging, I suspect that it has to be problem with custom theme that site uses?

[billerickson]

I'd start by looking at the query arguments to see what is passed to WP_Query. I'd add something like this to your hteme's functions.php file (don't add this to the live site because the debugging code will be visible to everyone):

add_filter( 'display_posts_shortcode_args', function( $args, $atts ) {
	ea_pp( $args, 'Arguments' );
	ea_pp( $atts, 'Attributes );
	return $args;
}, 10, 2 );

/**
 * Pretty Printing
 *
 * @since 1.0.0
 * @author Chris Bratlien
 * @param mixed $obj
 * @param string $label
 * @return null
 */
function ea_pp( $obj, $label = '' ) {
	$data = json_encode( print_r( $obj,true ) );
	?>
	<style type="text/css">
		#bsdLogger {
		position: fixed;
		top: 0;
		right: 0px;
		border-left: 4px solid #bbb;
		padding: 6px;
		background: white;
		color: #444;
		z-index: 999;
		font-size: 1.25em;
		width: 400px;
		height: 100vh;
		overflow: scroll;
		}

		.admin-bar #bsdLogger {
			top: 32px;
			height: calc( 100vh - 32px );
		}
	</style>
	<script type="text/javascript">
		var doStuff = function(){
			var obj = <?php echo $data; ?>;
			var logger = document.getElementById('bsdLogger');
			if (!logger) {
				logger = document.createElement('div');
				logger.id = 'bsdLogger';
				document.body.appendChild(logger);
			}
			////console.log(obj);
			var pre = document.createElement('pre');
			var h2 = document.createElement('h2');
			pre.innerHTML = obj;
			h2.innerHTML = '<?php echo addslashes($label); ?>';
			logger.appendChild(h2);
			logger.appendChild(pre);
		};
		window.addEventListener ("DOMContentLoaded", doStuff, false);
	</script>
	<?php
}

I'd then comment out the global variable and run that code again to see if there's any change to the query arguments.