Title: activated plugin breaks save function in theme/plugin Editor
Last modified: December 18, 2019

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# activated plugin breaks save function in theme/plugin Editor

 *  Resolved [svenbolte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svenbolte/)
 * (@svenbolte)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activated-plugin-breaks-save-function-in-theme-plugin-editor/)
 * Nice Chat plugin, like it, but when i have activated the plugin and try to use
   theme editor or plugin editor, once i press save button the system hangs, does
   not save any changes until i restart browser after timeout of about 30 secs.
 * When SAC plugin is not active saving chages in plugin/theme editor works.
 * As no error message displaying, i have no idea how SAC breaks the save function.
 * Happens regardless of what theme chosen. WordPress 5.3.1, PHP 7.3, MySQL 5.6.
   x

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 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activated-plugin-breaks-save-function-in-theme-plugin-editor/#post-12251355)
 * Thanks for the feedback. I’ve not heard of anything like this before, and just
   tested SAC on default WP with normal results. Are you getting any errors on screen
   or in the site’s error/debug logs? Any sort of clues would be useful for investigating.
 *  [jurvrn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jurvrn/)
 * (@jurvrn)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activated-plugin-breaks-save-function-in-theme-plugin-editor/#post-12252201)
 * my SAC work correctly too
 *  Thread Starter [svenbolte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svenbolte/)
 * (@svenbolte)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activated-plugin-breaks-save-function-in-theme-plugin-editor/#post-12253589)
 * its a hosted environment – no access to logs. when i turn debugging on, no php
   error messages appear. After save timeout:
 * “Etwas lief schief. Deine Änderung wurde vermutlich nicht gespeichert. Bitte 
   erneut versuchen. Es besteht die Möglichkeit, dass du den Fehler manuell beheben
   und die Datei per FTP hochladen musst.”
 * and nothing is saved
 * WP health check is with no issues.
 * BTW: having the same issue, when activating access password category plugin instead.
 * Both of them causing save in plugin/theme editor fail.
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activated-plugin-breaks-save-function-in-theme-plugin-editor/#post-12255512)
 * Thanks for the infos. In order to investigate further, it is necessary to recreate
   the issue on default WP install. Otherwise, there is no way to test, troubleshoot,
   etc. If you can provide clear/simple steps to replicate the issue on default 
   WP, it will enable further testing. For example, clear/simple steps might look
   something like this:
 * 1) Install WP, leave everything at default settings, plugins, theme, etc.
    2)
   Install SAC plugin, add form to page 3) Visit the Theme or Plugin Editor 4) Etc.
 * That way, we can follow along and try to help asap, thank you.
 *  Thread Starter [svenbolte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svenbolte/)
 * (@svenbolte)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activated-plugin-breaks-save-function-in-theme-plugin-editor/#post-12270590)
 * Solution found:
    Testing in a lab environment made it work with all plugins and
   theme installed. No breaks on save.
 * Only difference was db version.
 * So i upgraded Mysql on the hosted live system to version 5.7. Since then it did
   not happen again.
    Thanks for the hint with setting up a lab environment and 
   merry xmas.
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by [svenbolte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svenbolte/).
      Reason: solved
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activated-plugin-breaks-save-function-in-theme-plugin-editor/#post-12271636)
 * Hi [@svenbolte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svenbolte/), glad to hear
   you got it sorted. Never would have guessed an issue with MySQL version to be
   the culprit. Thanks for letting me know and likewise merry xmas.

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