Astra theme issue

Hi all – I took a look and I found the issue. It appears to be a bug in Astra. Here’s the problematic line (470):

https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/astra/4.6.15/inc/blog/blog.php?marks=470#L458

Astra calls have_posts(), which causes WordPress to increment its internal counter. This kicks off a weird cycle where the loop keeps running over and over again. It’s likely that this was never noticed because most WP content (custom post types, etc) will trigger one of the if clauses earlier in the function.

The Asana folks should instead use some other check for whether there are posts on the current view. Something like this would work:

if ( empty( $description ) && empty( $GLOBALS['wp_query']->posts ) ) {

though perhaps they’d like to do something more elegant than that 🙂

In the meantime, here’s a workaround that you can implement in your own child theme, or some other place where you put PHP snippets on your site:

add_filter(
	'get_the_archive_description',
	function( $description ) {
		if ( ! is_post_type_archive( 'bp_doc' ) ) {
			return $description;
		}

		return 'Docs directory';
	}
);

This is *not* a fix for the underlying problem – which, as described above, is a bug in Astra – but it should get your site working properly with Docs.