Title: Plugin stopped working Last modified: October 11, 2017 --- # Plugin stopped working * Resolved [ourtechie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ourtechie/) * (@ourtechie) * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stopped-working-124/) * I’m using Postie v 1.9.4 and have updated to WordPress 4.8.2 * I’ve used this plugin for over two years with no issues but suddenly it ceased to function three days ago. I haven’t added or activated any new plugins recently. * I’m getting the error: Warning: the Default Poster is not a valid WordPress login. * So three issues: * 1. On the User tab the default poster is set to my user account but the error message claims it is not valid. My account is the main admin account. * 2. The default poster dropdown list doesn’t display and of the other users (mostly editors) * 3. Settings won’t save. I’ve entered all the settings for the email server but when I click on the Save button, all the settings disappear. * I’ve tried deactivating all other plugins but the error message persists. * It seems that for some reason the plugin is failing to find the list of registered users. * Suggestions? Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/) * (@wayneallen-1) * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stopped-working-124/#post-9578190) * Are there any errors in your web server logs? * Can you save settings in any other plugin? Postie is using the standard WordPress functions for saving settings. * Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/) * (@wayneallen-1) * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stopped-working-124/#post-9578350) * Check the “Roles That Can Post” setting as well and make sure at least one user is a WordPress administrator. * [Alexander Barhatkov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robot1010/) * (@robot1010) * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stopped-working-124/#post-9578357) * Wayne the Plug in is working Perfectly.. We just need to filter what it posts…. meaning its posting to much or posting as its intended we where just hoping to filter via key words as to what it posts and eliminate some posts that have no results… meaning we are still getting notified with emails that bare no results and really did not want to over post something that has no relevant information…. * I saw that the plug in had to user fields under message tab with begin text and ending text and did not know if we can use that part of the plug in to filter and block some content from being posted * Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/) * (@wayneallen-1) * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stopped-working-124/#post-9579072) * [@robot1010](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robot1010/) I think you replied to the wrong thread. * Thread Starter [ourtechie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ourtechie/) * (@ourtechie) * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stopped-working-124/#post-9579752) * I’ve checked the error log but I don’t see anything explicitly about error generated by the Postie plugin. I’m seeing this error — “Trying to get property of non- object in wp-content/themes/Divi 3.0/functions.php on line 8568” — repeating many times around the time I was trying to get the posting by mail function working again. The function in question handles the “overwrite_canonical_redirect”. I’m not familiar enough with the underbelly of WordPress to know what that actually means. * As I mentioned, my account it the administrator account. In the “Roles that can post” section, the administrator chechbox is ticked but I can’t select any other checkboxes (and save the results). Also, in the dropdown list for the default poster field, my account is the only one that shows up but the error message is still displayed even though it is a valid account. * [Alexander Barhatkov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robot1010/) * (@robot1010) * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stopped-working-124/#post-9580301) * He sure did I am going to include an attachment of what we are trying to do via link * [PIc 1](http://ztrade.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/NO_1.jpg) * [Pic 2](http://ztrade.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/NO_1.jpg) * we are getting to much spam and I was asking to see if there was a way to filter out and or prevent Postie tom post if it matches key words like No New Symbols or or no New or so simply “NO” Our Blog and post areas are constantly have to be cleared out with over spam and result-less posts * can u help * Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/) * (@wayneallen-1) * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stopped-working-124/#post-9582019) * [@robot1010](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robot1010/) you are in the wrong thread yours is here: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-exclusion-utilizing-key-words/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-exclusion-utilizing-key-words/) * Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/) * (@wayneallen-1) * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stopped-working-124/#post-9582028) * [@ourtechie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ourtechie/) the next thing to check would be to disable all other plugins and switch to twentysixteen theme and see if you still have the issue. If not then switch back the theme and plugins one at a time until the problem happens again and we’ll know what is causing the issue. * Thread Starter [ourtechie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ourtechie/) * (@ourtechie) * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stopped-working-124/#post-9587704) * Hi Wayne, * Well, I’m not sure what I did but everything is working fine now. I’ve updated all plugins. I turned them all off, refreshed everything and turned Postie back on. It works. Then I turned on the most important plugins. Still works. * Maybe there was a conflict with one of the plugins that I didn’t reactivate. I’ll let you know if I find anything else. The template doesn’t seem to be the issue. * Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/) * (@wayneallen-1) * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stopped-working-124/#post-9587971) * Glad to hear that it is working again. 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