I can confirm this, but mine scrolls up to the top, so it starts with the A themes.
Interesting. I restarted RW and its still scrolling to the bottom. Moreā¦ when I try to select a theme the blue āselectedā rectangle appears below the theme I was trying to selectā¦ like the y co-ordinate is being miscalculatedā¦ Choosing themes is hit and missā¦ Ah well, it IS a beta I suppose.
I never change themes unless I have to, so I just did it as a test to see if it happens to me as well.
It has not solved the problem of always uploading all 2,600+ files of my blog whenever anything is changed
Hi Dan, does it fix the āsuper bad bugā in the blog plugin Iāve reported here? RW Blog Pages loosing files
@dan - SIDEBAR CODE āGONEā IN 800 PAGES!
When I published this morning using this beta my sidebar was emptyā¦ I looked at my project and the sidebar pane for all 800 pages was blank. My sidebar consists of a single php include. Itās not that it didnāt workā¦ the CODE in all 800 sidebars was GONE. Pulling out my backup projects and āstableā copy of RWā¦
Preview function now works correctly.
As for speed of preview. I think it is pretty much the same. Not slower, but not really faster either.
Iām just glad that it previews the page that I want it to preview.
Thanks.
Will this fix the āfeatureā where one change results in every file being uploaded
I have managed podcasts with rapidweaver for years and version 6 only uploaded changed files
now every podcast gets uploaded with any change. almost a gig now and growing.
this will rapidly become a bandwidth nightmare
the thought of going back and redoing the rss feed of literally hundreds of podcasts is depressing.
please please please fix
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I just opened my 350 page site to find that every single sidebar is blank. Aaaargh!
Having seen the post here about it, I just added back in the code to a few pages and saved the project. I then reopened the project to find all the pages were blank again.
Head in hands moment.
Remember, what Dan says on the first post of this thread
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Thankfully my projects are all backed up. In three separate places, but I made a couple of other backups of the backups and then tried loading them. Same result, everything was stripped out of the sidebar.
I guess I will just have to wait for the next beta.
So are we not to post the problems we find? Isnāt that what Realmac wants? Would they rather we simply say āOh well, only a betaā¦ā and not report it?
Thanks for confirming what I saw @channonite
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WOW, all I was telling @channonite was to be sure to back up before using. Didnāt mean to push any buttons thereā¦
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@zeebeā¦ I apologize. I totally mis-read your intent.
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I have worked through all 353 pages of my site removing anything that relied on code in the sidebar. After a couple of crashes, that were probably due to me getting tired towards the end, everything uploaded and is fine again. This was very much a workaround, rather than a fix and the sidebar seems to be unreliable at best in this release.
Anyway, I have another site that uses the sidebar (different theme and different code) and that has the same issue. At least I know what to do now.
Sorry if Iām missing something obvious - but having previously downloaded a RW 7 Demo (which I canāt really evaluate as so many old plugins are no longer or possibly no longer supported) Iām offered no options for using the Beta other than as a demo.
The splash screen options are:
Use Demo
Activate License
Upgrade or
Buy Now
Can you tell me how I try out the Beta?
You probably can only use it in demo mode. Until you purchase a license.
The nasty āmissing sidebar content bugā seems to be restricted to Styled Text sidebars only. I found the HTML Code sidebars were unaffected and the content was still present. Page type didnāt seem to be a factor - the sidebar vanished on styled text, Stacks, blog, RapidCart Pro and sitemap pages of a test project. Iāve reverted back to a stable release of RW until the known cause can be found and fixed.
I also encountered crashes when I tried to duplicate project pages using the CMD + D shortcut. Full crash reports sent.
OK. Makes sense I supposeā¦
As Iām picking up RW involvement after about 3 years of settling on RW5, I guess there should to be a price to pay for active developmentā¦
Having been with RW since about 2006, thereās loads of plugins and other features that needed to be updated or removed on my website, so a limited demo hasnāt really given me opportunity or motivation to overcome those barriers, which I thought the Beta could allow me.
Obviously a Beta really serves another purpose so I guess, having seen RW is being actively improved and developed so apparently worth investing in, I should bite the bullet and look to the future.
Simplifying, having a rethink, and maybe taking a step back from all that complication maybe a good thing after allā¦
@willwood Will, as info onlyā¦ in my case it was on Stacks (3.2.6) pages. Hereās a clip of the content of the sidebar.
