Rank Math archive disable causes Breakdance errors

[cmidgley]

Problem summary:

Rank Math has a feature to disable archives (date and author). When disabled, these generate a redirect. When editing an archive, if the preview dropdown selects a disabled archive Breakdance will display an AJAX failure (since it got a redirected text/html instead of the expected application/json) and not allow any editing. Date archive is often the first archive in the preview list, so if it is disabled the error is generated anytime the archive template is opened.

Steps to reproduce

1. Install Rank Math
2. Disable date archives:
   
3. Create / edit a post archive template
4. Assuming the preview selects a disabled archive, the following should appear:
   

Work around

Either of the following works:

1. Don't disable archives with Rank Math (primarily the date archive, as it is the default one)
2. With archives disabled and an error appearing, select a different non-disabled archive. Editing will work again.

(May be what #62 was unable to reproduce?)

[obedparla]

This isn't possible to fix from our end since RankMath doesn't provide a filter/hook and forces the ajax requests to redirect, breaking our logic. Only solution is to disable it.

We have an issue asking them to add it: rankmath/seo-by-rank-math#127

[obedparla]

Opened a PR in the RankMath GitHub. When, and if, they merge it, we'll be able to fix this within Breakdance: rankmath/seo-by-rank-math#143

[louisreingold]

RankMath has left our pull request ignored for over six months.

:(

[louisreingold]

@louisreingold closed this as not planned

We are unable to address this until RankMath chooses to cooperate. Our engineers wrote the code and gave it to them.