Plugin causes issues with site URLs on Multisite

  • Resolved toddheitner

    (@toddheitner)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    I’ve been having an issue on my site and after lots of testing, I finally tracked it down to the Paid Memberships Pro plugin.

    I have a MultiSite installation. If this plugin is activated, it affects the URLs of new sites.

    I’m not referring to any add-ons or even any of the PMPro functionality. If I go to Network Admin -> Add Site and create a new site, if I do it from a secure URL (https), the newly-created site will have https at the beginning of its URL. If the page is not secure, the user’s site URL will not have https.

    This changes the default WP behavior and creates problems. My users use domain mapping and their domains are not secured, so it creates security warnings.

    I have tested adding sites various ways, and regardless of the means of adding new sites, if it’s done through a secure URL, the user’s new site has https at the beginning. I believe this is a bug.

    It’s not being caused by any PMPro add-ons. I deactivated the main PMPro plugin and left all add-ons active and the issue didn’t happen. But when I did the reverse, leaving PMPro active and deactivating all add-ons, the issue still happened.

    I would really appreciate you looking into this and correcting it.

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Andrew Lima

    (@andrewza)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Todd,

    Thank you for using Paid Memberships Pro, I’m really sorry for the issue you are facing with this.

    We are currently investigating this issue and I will revert as soon as I have some feedback from our dev team.

    Thank you for your patience and understanding.

    Plugin Author Andrew Lima

    (@andrewza)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Todd,

    Would you mind telling me what Paid Memberships Pro add ons you are using on your multisite?

    As I have tested this solely with Paid Memberships Pro (core) and when I manually created a subsite, it first loaded with HTTPS but did not force HTTPS and I simply removed it from the URL when browsing the site.

    I did notice that when I clicked ‘Visit’ from the WordPress dashboard it prepended HTTPS but as mentioned I simply removed it from the URL and it wasn’t forced to rewrite to HTTPS – this didn’t happen when PMPro was activated.

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    Thread Starter toddheitner

    (@toddheitner)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    With Paid Memberships Pro activated, go to the Network Admin -> Sites -> Add New
    via a secure (https) URL and create a site.

    After the site is created, click to Edit the site.

    Go to the Settings screen. Check the “Home” URL.

    In my tests, with PMPro (core) activated, the “Home” URL has https as the beginning, but the “Siteurl” URL has http. This is not default behavior for WordPress. The Home URL should not be affected by the URL the site was created from.

    In testing the same process, but with PMPro deactivated, everything is http, which is default WP behavior and the desired result.

    I could get into all the reasons why this is creating problems and why changing the URL in the address bar isn’t a sufficient solution (and how it has cost me weeks of time, lots of unnecessary customer support, and lost sales), but I don’t want to distract from the issue, which is that the plugin is changing the default WP behavior in this regard and should not be, so something is wrong and needs to be addressed.

    I’m using quite a few add-ons, but as I mentioned, I tested with all of those deactivated and only the Paid Memberships Pro (core) plugin activated and the problem still occurs. So it’s not related to add-ons, but the core plugin. If you need the list of add-ons I can provide it, but again, the problem happens with those all deactivated, so I don’t think it’s relevant and I don’t want to distract from the real issue.

    Thanks,
    Todd

    Thread Starter toddheitner

    (@toddheitner)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hi, it’s been a month. Any update on this?

    Plugin Author Andrew Lima

    (@andrewza)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    I have asked Jason, lead developer of Paid Memberships Pro, to work with through this.

    I’m really sorry for the delayed response regarding this @toddheitner.

    Please feel free to open an issue on our GitHub repo – https://github.com/strangerstudios/paid-memberships-pro/issues

    Thread Starter toddheitner

    (@toddheitner)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    OK, I’d really appreciate the help.

    I just posted the issue on GitHub:
    https://github.com/strangerstudios/paid-memberships-pro/issues/535

    Thanks,
    Todd

    Plugin Author Andrew Lima

    (@andrewza)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for this Todd, we will continue to discuss this issue on the GitHub issue.

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