Posts will sometimes randomly disappear when trying to edit

#1 · November 14, 2025, 8:07 am

This has been ongoing for some time now on my Wordpress site where posts and topics will at random (I cannot find a pattern) disappear entirely. This happens more commonly when attempting to edit. When clicking the edit link, the page will refresh and I will receive the error “Sorry, this post does not exist”. I will even check in the database table for wp_forum_posts or wp_forum_topics and confirm it does not exist in the database at all. For example I was editing several users posts and one post gave me the error when trying to edit it while none of the others did. I have tested out a variety of things, but I can’t quite seem to pinpoint what could be the cause of this. I am using the same caching plugin Breeze since the beginning of the use of Asgaros years ago on my site, but did not see this issue until the last year or so. I also do no cache any of the URLs that forums reside on just to ensure there would be no conflicts. I have checked my Wordpress error logs and my Apache server error logs, but nothing is noted around the time these incidents occur.

This is the typical error I get when it happens. Notice this post is #1486.

I checked the table for the post right after this happened, and sure enough it’s missing.

Any insight on this issue would be great. Thanks!

#2 · November 14, 2025, 8:21 am

Also I just checked the storage engine being used for wp_forum_posts and wp_forum_topics. Currently it is set as InnoDB. Could this be an issue? Should it be set to MyISAM?

#3 · November 14, 2025, 8:37 am

Hi @jamesvgh ,

I don’t know if that helps, but you can try it.

Go to Settings › Permalinks and save them again according to your ideas.

It could be that something got mixed up.

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#4 · November 14, 2025, 4:14 pm

Quote from Biker on November 14, 2025, 8:37 am

Hi @jamesvgh ,

I don’t know if that helps, but you can try it.

Go to Settings › Permalinks and save them again according to your ideas.

It could be that something got mixed up.

I’ve actually done this a few times actually with no success. I could understand how the permalinks issue could potentially cause a problem with forum topics disappearing under the use a SEO-friendly structure, but I wouldn’t be able to understand why it would cause them to delete themselves from the database entirely (granted I’m no expert so someone would have to explain to me why that could happen if that is plausible).

#5 · November 14, 2025, 4:26 pm

I also want to make it known that this problem is unique to the forum. The issue has occurred under other user accounts. The issue is not exclusive to me. I have also not seen this issue anywhere else on my website. I have posts, products, tags, brands, categories, and a variety of other content stores in their own data tables. This problem appears to be isolated to the forums. The only pattern I have really observed is posts or topics disappearing when trying to edit them (it occurs at random). This may be a complex issue at this point.

#6 · December 3, 2025, 5:57 pm

I also wanted to add an update to this about something I forgot will also happen at random:
Sometimes when editing a post, upon saving the post it will sometimes lock it. In no way is the post every locked by the user. This just appears to happen at random without any visible pattern (aside from when editing a post).

Overall the general pattern here appears to be that posts will either completely disappear from the database or are locked when initially clicking the Edit button or when saving the post on the edit screen. I don’t experience any issues like this with any other types of content on my website. This appears to just be isolated to Asgaros posts. Any additional support on this issue would be highly appreciated.

#7 · December 19, 2025, 5:48 pm

Quote from jamesvgh on December 19, 2025, 5:48 pm
There is still no discovered solution, but I did observe something odd recently. Whether this is related or not, I have no clue. I get an error in Chrome when toggling from the editor’s Code tab to the Visual tab (I use Classic Editor everywhere in Wordpress still). I don’t always get this error, but I discovered there are some unique things that have to happen in order for the following error to occur (screenshot attached here)…

Error:
editor.min.js?ver=77b845e5572b0da04f1a7edae8d2c90f:2 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘regexp’)
at editor.min.js?ver=77b845e5572b0da04f1a7edae8d2c90f:2:4119
at S (editor.min.js?ver=77b845e5572b0da04f1a7edae8d2c90f:2:4604)
at o.length.s.cursorStart (editor.min.js?ver=77b845e5572b0da04f1a7edae8d2c90f:2:1067)
at n (editor.min.js?ver=77b845e5572b0da04f1a7edae8d2c90f:2:1261)
at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (editor.min.js?ver=77b845e5572b0da04f1a7edae8d2c90f:2:248)
at C (tinymce.min.js?ver=49110-20250317:2:10800)
at HTMLDocument.d (tinymce.min.js?ver=49110-20250317:2:10946)

This error only happens when all of the following occur:

When editing or posting in Asgaros (cannot reproduce in other types of post edits across Wordpress)

When any opening and closing brackets are inserted “[]” into the post content AND only if there is text between the two brackets. I originally discovered this issue when using the spoiler tags, but was able to determine that it isn’t just related to spoiler tags. It happens with any brackets containing any alphanumeric content of any length. This will occur whether the respective closing tag exists or not.

When the editor’s Visual tab is clicked when viewing the Code tab (basically just attempting to toggle from Code to Visual

As indicated in the first point, I cannot reproduce this error anywhere else in Wordpress. If I using the brackets in any way on other edit fields (such as a post, a Woocommerce product edit screen, etc.), then the issue does not occur at all. Closing tags also do not reproduce this issue by themselves. For example, any of the following would cause problems: [sp0iler], [anything], [sp0iler][/sp0iler], or [anything][/anything]. The following would not create any issues if it was just any of the following: [], [/], [/sp0iler], or [/anything]

***The other issue is that the Visual tab will not respond when clicked. It remains on the Code tab. The error is thrown every time the Visual tab is clicked

This error can be fixed simply removing the brackets or leaving brackets with no content in between it (just “[]”). I don’t even have to save the change. It stops the error as soon as the tags are removed from the editor’s text area field. I am curious if this is some sort of incompatibility that the Classic Editor has with Asgaros. I understand that the error seems to possibly be an issue with TinyMCE since the version associated with Classic Editor is some version of 4.x. Any thoughts? Maybe this is loosely linked to the issue with my posts going haywire and randomly deleting themselves as mentioned above.

There is still no discovered solution, but I did observe something odd recently. Whether this is related or not, I have no clue. I get an error in Chrome when toggling from the editor’s Code tab to the Visual tab (I use Classic Editor everywhere in Wordpress still). I don’t always get this error, but I discovered there are some unique things that have to happen in order for the following error to occur (screenshot attached here)…

Error:
editor.min.js?ver=77b845e5572b0da04f1a7edae8d2c90f:2 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘regexp’)
at editor.min.js?ver=77b845e5572b0da04f1a7edae8d2c90f:2:4119
at S (editor.min.js?ver=77b845e5572b0da04f1a7edae8d2c90f:2:4604)
at o.length.s.cursorStart (editor.min.js?ver=77b845e5572b0da04f1a7edae8d2c90f:2:1067)
at n (editor.min.js?ver=77b845e5572b0da04f1a7edae8d2c90f:2:1261)
at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (editor.min.js?ver=77b845e5572b0da04f1a7edae8d2c90f:2:248)
at C (tinymce.min.js?ver=49110-20250317:2:10800)
at HTMLDocument.d (tinymce.min.js?ver=49110-20250317:2:10946)

This error only happens when all of the following occur:

When editing or posting in Asgaros (cannot reproduce in other types of post edits across Wordpress)
When any opening and closing brackets are inserted “[]” into the post content AND only if there is text between the two brackets. I originally discovered this issue when using the spoiler tags, but was able to determine that it isn’t just related to spoiler tags. It happens with any brackets containing any alphanumeric content of any length. This will occur whether the respective closing tag exists or not.
When the editor’s Visual tab is clicked when viewing the Code tab (basically just attempting to toggle from Code to Visual

As indicated in the first point, I cannot reproduce this error anywhere else in Wordpress. If I using the brackets in any way on other edit fields (such as a post, a Woocommerce product edit screen, etc.), then the issue does not occur at all. Closing tags also do not reproduce this issue by themselves. For example, any of the following would cause problems: [sp0iler], [anything], [sp0iler][/sp0iler], or [anything][/anything]. The following would not create any issues if it was just any of the following: [], [/], [/sp0iler], or [/anything]

***The other issue is that the Visual tab will not respond when clicked. It remains on the Code tab. The error is thrown every time the Visual tab is clicked

This error can be fixed simply removing the brackets or leaving brackets with no content in between it (just “[]”). I don’t even have to save the change. It stops the error as soon as the tags are removed from the editor’s text area field. I am curious if this is some sort of incompatibility that the Classic Editor has with Asgaros. I understand that the error seems to possibly be an issue with TinyMCE since the version associated with Classic Editor is some version of 4.x. Any thoughts? Maybe this is loosely linked to the issue with my posts going haywire and randomly deleting themselves as mentioned above.

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#8 · December 19, 2025, 7:01 pm

Does all of this also happen with a standard theme?

Do you have a caching plugin?

What happens when you disable it?

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#9 · December 19, 2025, 7:50 pm

I have not tested it without using Yootheme (which is my current theme), but I recently updated the theme and that could be related. Bear into mind that I only experience this issue with Asgaros. I can insert shortcodes or any bracketed content elsewhere on the site and never get this error. I will have to test that out.
I use Breeze as my caching plugin, however I do not cache any pages or directories that the forums reside on.

Disabling my theme will cause some massive issues due to a lot of custom code that is dependent on it. So that will be something I will have to do a lot of preparation around. It will take some time before I can try that out. Even though my caching plugin does not cache the forum pages, I will entertain disabling it just to see what happens.

This could be entirely unrelated, but while trying to do some minor debugging I observed that following error in Chrome as well:

Deprecated feature used
Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.
AFFECTED RESOURCES
1 source
tinymce.min.js?ver=49110-xxxxxxxx:2

I observed that general error even in these forums when using Chrome. If you’re using Chrome, then you should be able to see that error in the Developer tools as well. Could this have any connection?