Love It button broke: sends a love but returns error

[sobodash]

We’re having a problem with the Love It button on posts at our website.

http://beijingtoday.com.cn/

When visitors click Love, it adds +1 to the love count but returns an error message saying it failed.

“Sorry, there was a problem processing your request.”

After this they can still click “Love” and boost the count as much as they want.

Any idea how we can track down and resolve this problem? Since it’s actually hitting the ajax script it doesn’t appear to be a plugin conflict.

[laranz – SUPPORT]

Hi,

The ajax request is success but I don’t have a clue why this error message shows up. I will forward this to the developer for some insights.

Thanks,
laranz.

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Hi there,

Try changing /includes/plugins/love-it/js/love-it.js contents to the following. It seems as those your AJAX response has added spacing for some reason.

jQuery(document).ready( function($) {	
	$('.love-it').on('click', function() {
		var $this = $(this);	
		var post_id = $this.data('post-id');
		var user_id = $this.data('user-id');
		var data = {
			action: 'love_it',
			item_id: post_id,
			user_id: user_id,
			love_it_nonce: love_it_vars.nonce
		};
		
		// don't allow the user to love the item more than once
		if($this.hasClass('loved')) {
			alert(love_it_vars.already_loved_message);
			return false;
		}	
		if(love_it_vars.logged_in == 'false' && $.cookie('loved-' + post_id)) {
			alert(love_it_vars.already_loved_message);
			return false;
		}
		
		$.post(love_it_vars.ajaxurl, data, function(response) {
			var ajaxResponse = jQuery.trim(response);
			if(ajaxResponse == 'loved') {
				$this.addClass('loved');
				var count_wrap = $this.next();
				var count = count_wrap.text();
				count_wrap.text(parseInt(count) + 1);
				if(love_it_vars.logged_in == 'false') {
					$.cookie('loved-' + post_id, 'yes', { expires: 1 });
				}
			} else {
				alert(love_it_vars.error_message);
			}
		});
		return false;
	});	
});

– Ed