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Why WordPress 5.5 broke your site & how to fix it

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Enable jQuery Helper plugin

So you updated to WordPress 5.5 and either your site stopped functioning correctly or a plugin stopped working. Read on for the likely fix.

The problem

The solution that worked for me was also the easiest solution you can imagine. It takes less than a minute to get your site working correctly again. First off, the likely problem with your site has to do with jQuery a JavaScript library that a number of plugins and themes use. In short, WordPress 5.5 removed older jQuery scripts in order to modernize itself. This means that a whole raft of themes and plugins need to be updated by their respective authors. In the meantime, this has left thousands if not tens of thousands of websites broken or partially broken.

The solution

The fix is easy and fast. Follow these steps:

Step 1) Download, install, and activate ‘Enable jQuery Migrate Helper‘.

Step 2) There is no step 2. Your site probably works now.

The Conclusion

If your site is still not working, then it means your problems are likely not jQuery related and I wish you the best in sorting that out. If it did fix your problem then that is because WordPress 5.5 affected thousands of plugins and themes that relied on old JavaScript functions and this plugin provides those deprecated functions. While this is a fix, remember that the affected plugins and themes will hopefully provide updates to solve the issue. That is, they will use modern JavaScript functions instead. If updates on themes or plugins that stopped working for you come through, disable the ‘Enable jQuery Migrate Helper’ plugin to see if the problem is solved. If the problem remains, simply reactivate the plugin.

Bulk change post dates by category

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Post Date Time-Change

Recently I needed a plugin that changed the date of WordPress posts by category for a travel photo website. The site was divided into categories that were countries containing 1000 posts. The problem was these posts were not the same date as the photos as they were created years after taking them, So I wanted a way to choose change all the posts that resided in a category/country at the same time rather than change the date of each post individually. The solution turned out to be very easy. Watch the video for the plugin called Post Date Time Change. I have placed a link to the plugin below the video.

Post Date Time Change

Download Post Date Time Change →

NOTE: This plugin has one downfall. If you change multiple posts to the same timestamp, then it screws up post navigation because that is based on date/time in ascending or descending order. The solution is to change the seconds on the timestamp for each post manually. You can do this quite quickly using the same plugin. Go through all your affected posts and change the last two digits in the new date field that the plugin adds. These two digits are seconds. So start with say 59, then 58 for the next post and so on. Now each post with the same date will have a slightly different time. Consequently, this will restore normal functionality for post navigation when you click the ‘Next’ or ‘Previous’ links.