Not all items are listed in the custom content listing in the backend.

• Kimmer

• May 11, 2023 at 5:10 am

Hi there,

I am working on a new website on my local machine and I am using ACF for custom content for a basic “Events” feature.

Just for testing end development I have created two “Event” items and I have noticed twice now that all of a sudden the listing in the backend only shows one item while above the listing the amount of “All” and “Published” is still two. Meaning I can not access one of the items via the backend any more.

The first time I noticed this I accessed the missing item via the frontend, trashed it and then cleaned the database with “WP DB Cleaner”. I assumed this fixed the issue but now it happened again.

Cleaning the database without first trashing the missing item does not seem to work.

I also tried deactivating all other plugins without success.

The PHP log does not seem to have an error related to this.

Now I am concerned this might happen when the new site is live so I am trying to figure out why this happens and how I can prevent this?

Anyone?

• Kimmer

• May 11, 2023 at 5:31 am

My apologies, this was not related to ACF. Richt after I posted this question I figured out it was a script in my child theme doing this. I have a script that is supposed to show only the upcoming events on the “Events” archive page. It was also affecting the listing in the backend. I fixed it by adding “&& !is_admin()” in the condition.

It might come in handy for someone else. This is the script I’m talking about:

function filter_event_archive_query($query)
{
    if (is_post_type_archive('event') && $query->is_main_query() && !is_admin()) {
        $meta_query = array(
            array(
                'key' => 'start_date_time',
                'value' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
                'compare' => '>=',
                'type' => 'DATETIME'
            )
        );
        $query->set('meta_query', $meta_query);
        $query->set('orderby', 'meta_value');
        $query->set('order', 'ASC');
    }
}
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'filter_event_archive_query');