wordpress-mobile / wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android
Pages List: List doesn't consistently load on first try
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Description
Expected behavior
Whenever I open the Pages List, it will load all my pages.
If the pages are not able to load immediately, I expect to see a "Fetching pages" message.
Actual behavior
Sometimes, no pages are loaded and I see "You haven't published any pages yet" notice. Sometimes, only a few pages are loaded out of many.
Steps to reproduce the behavior
- Restart the app
- Head into My Site > Home or My Site > Menu select "Pages".
- Note whether all your pages are displayed
- Try it again
I had no pages, or only a few pages, ~60% of the time, across probably 20 tries in 5 languages. (I noticed this when doing i18n smoke testing)
When a few pages had already loaded, waiting a few seconds generally allowed the rest to appear.
When no pages were loaded, I needed to pull-to-refresh. A few times, this didn't work and I needed to navigate away from and back to the pages list.
Occasionally, all my pages loaded, or I got the "Fetching pages" message as expected when loading.
This is from a site with ~20 published pages:

Tested on Samsung Galaxy S21, Android 12, WPAndroid 19.9-rc-4
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue through My Site > Home or My Site > Menu > Pages on the tested Android setup, then trace the Pages List loading path. Done means all published pages load consistently, or a "Fetching pages" message remains visible until loading completes, with refresh and navigation recovering when needed.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- mobile-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100