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No longer saving excluded term – we used to have past events as a term saved for exclusion – the UI no longer saves this properly – meaning all our past events are showing search results

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi!

Thank you for the details, it helps me a lot.

I was able to figure out, that the issue might be related to a server configuration, but I am not sure yet. There is a server limit for how many inputs can be passed during a request. As you know, the plugin has lots of options, and in some rare cases they exceed the server defined limit. There is a bypass method implemented to resolve this issue, but in this case it does not seem to work as it should, and I don’t know why though.
I see three possible ways of resolving this:

1. To increase the server limit of the input vars, by changing this line in your server php.ini file:

max_input_vars=500

to:

max_input_vars=3000

After the change, the php or apache service needs to be restarted (or the server).

2. Adding this to the wp-config.php file to try to change it on the run:

ini_set('max_input_vars', 3000);

This method works sometimes, other times it doesn’t. Worth a try.

3. You can add temporary FTP details if none of the above does the trick, and I will try to debug why the bypass method does not work.

Let me know!

——
PS.: I have noticed a text ‘blur’ issue on the login screen. Check this screenshot. It is not a bit deal, but in case you want to fix that, you can use this custom CSS code:

@media screen and (min-width: 850px)
div.lg-x50.lg-y50 {
    -ms-transform: translate(-50%,-50%) !important;
    transform: translate(calc(-50% + 0.5px),calc(-50% + 0.5px)) !important;
}

It happens due to the percentage transform property. This custom CSS will add a 0.5 pixel shift to it, so the blurryness should disappear. For me it looks like this:
– Before
– After
I hope this helps.

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[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi,

Thank you very much, this helped me a lot. This took me a while to figure out, but I managed to solve it. Turns out a certain PHP core function (parse_str) is also limited by the input variable limit. This is an issue, as it is not even documented in the PHP documentation.
I had to search for an alternative parse_str implementation, luckily other people had this issue before, and there was a solution. I have implemented an additional code section to resolve this.

I will of course inlcude this in the upcoming release. Hopefully everything should be saved correctly now.

I still highly recommend increasing the max_input_vars limit to above 1000, as other plugins may use more than 500 variables easily, and it is not easy to bypass that limit otherwise.

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Thanks Ernst – you are a rockstar!

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