Title: btlewand's Replies | WordPress.org --- # btlewand [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 23 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [number_format() error when trying to add new plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/) * [btlewand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/) * (@btlewand) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/page/3/#post-4371020) * [@linkhousemedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linkhousemedia/) I assumed that field had something to do with woocommerce licenses you purchased from them and since the number was zero I changed it to a larger number. Perhaps coincidence or maybe global warming … :-). * Anyways here’s also a comment from WooThemes since there is definitely an issue with their latest version of their 1.2.1 updater. Look for an update to their updater in your plugin page soon. * “Hey Brian * So sorry about the issue here. We’re aware of something going wrong here and are working on a fix. * I’ll update you as soon as we have a fix. * Thanks Warren” * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [number_format() error when trying to add new plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/) * [btlewand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/) * (@btlewand) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/page/2/#post-4371005) * fyi – if you’re able to roll back to the previous version of WooUpdater 1.1.3 for me. Everything in the New Plugin page works once you change the item above from 0 to 1 in the database. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [number_format() error when trying to add new plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/) * [btlewand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/) * (@btlewand) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/page/2/#post-4371004) * Partial Breakthrough also on my end. When into PHPMyAdmin in cPanel and looked at the databases WooCommerce would add. Went into: * wp_woocommerce_downloadable_product_permissions * Field #10 is download count. Number in field is 0. Edited and changed to 1. * Refreshed the PlugIns AddNew screen and the tag cloud was back and php error is gone. * Only issue is the links for Popular, New, Favorites and Featured still don’t work but at least the error message is gone. Will need to see what WooThemes comes back with to fix the remainder. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [number_format() error when trying to add new plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/) * [btlewand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/) * (@btlewand) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/page/2/#post-4371003) * fyi – I have opened up a support ticket at WooThemes as well. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [number_format() error when trying to add new plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/) * [btlewand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/) * (@btlewand) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/page/2/#post-4371002) * Same thing on your item #3 above. PHP warning and broken plugin tag cloud but you’re right the links for Featured, Popular, Newest, and Favorites all worked again when I deactivated WooThemes Helper 1.2.1. * The site I copied from to create my Dev site still has WooThemes Updater 1.1.3 and the Plugins>New functionality still works fine. * Deleted 1.2.1. from my test site and rolled back to 1.1.3 and that didn’t fix the problem. So whatever version 1.2.1 does when you install it jacks up WordPress somewhere (I guess the database) which results in the PHP warning. [@linkhousemedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linkhousemedia/) good luck on the database scrub. Hopefully there is a variable somewhere that creates a conflict. My guess is that the WooThemes updater is checking their database remotely for licenses which must be conflicting when you try to access WordPress.org remotely from the Add New Plugin. * [@frank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frank/) McClung – If you’re still checking in can you let us know if you are using a WooTheme theme or plugin as well. If you do this definitely is the common thread in the mystery. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [number_format() error when trying to add new plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/) * [btlewand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/) * (@btlewand) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/page/2/#post-4370996) * [@samuel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samuel/) if you have a site [http://www](http://www).. com and another [http://www..com/dev](http://www..com/dev) and they are on the same server with the same version of WordPress with the same active plugins and the one in the subdirectory gets the error message and the core site does not, do you know what might cause that? Plus up until a few days ago both were functioning without error messages. I wouldn’t think a subdirectory would not be an issue and I think others on this thread are experiencing the problem on their core domains. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [number_format() error when trying to add new plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/) * [btlewand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/) * (@btlewand) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/#post-4370989) * [@wpyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) – Was curious to why the above thread I posted was closed: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-illegal-string-offset-count-errors-kills-add-new-plugins?replies=6#post-4949593](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-illegal-string-offset-count-errors-kills-add-new-plugins?replies=6#post-4949593)? You noted that threads are closed after a year. That one was closed after four days without a resolution???? You also want everyone to open their own thread and when they do and can’t be answered it gets closed. Thought the purpose of these forums was to find solutions. I understand not every issue can be solved easily but as a moderator I would think there would be a process where multiple unresolved inquiries about similar problems get sent to WordPress after some point. How is that done? * What we’re getting with this issue is “hi this is customer service, how can we help you? We don’t know what the problem is, sorry for the inconvenience, how else can we help?” * Just received info from my web host. Site is running fine with no errors other than the WordPress new plugin install process generated from the functions.php. They recommended contacting WordPress :-). BTW – PHP version running on the site is 5.5.3 which was released in August 2013 just a few months before the latest WP release. Would hope that would not be an issue. Plus all my sites are on the same server and the other sites don’t have the WP error noted. * Moderators: Please don’t close this thread until everyone noting this shared common issue has a solution that works. Thanks. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [number_format() error when trying to add new plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/) * [btlewand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/) * (@btlewand) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/#post-4370969) * [@wpyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) – I’m going to send my web host a support ticket and hopefully they won’t laugh at me. * Here’s another post I commented on yesterday where people are having the same issue. Would think if all of a sudden a number of people are posting about the same problem, there might be a bigger issue to investigate. [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-illegal-string-offset-count-errors-kills-add-new-plugins?replies=6#post-4949593](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-illegal-string-offset-count-errors-kills-add-new-plugins?replies=6#post-4949593) * Is there anyway to find out who is in charge of the connection between WordPress websites and WordPress.org? Issue doesn’t seem to be specific to a plugin as the plugin is usually noted in the error message and this issue is specific to connecting from a WordPress installation to the WordPress.org site. Since this issue never seemed to get resolved and appears to be intermittent for some, it would appear to be some bug or connection issue to the WordPress site. If we can’t resolve anything in this thread, can some sort of bug report be logged at WordPress to investigate? * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [number_format() error when trying to add new plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/) * [btlewand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/) * (@btlewand) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/#post-4370952) * Hosting company is SiteGround. No I haven’t since they would likely claim this type of issue is WordPress installation specific, but I will. My other sites they are hosting work fine. * Guess for now everyone else on this thread should also check with their hosting company as well and post back. Correct? * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [number_format() error when trying to add new plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/) * [btlewand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/) * (@btlewand) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/#post-4370950) * [@wpyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) – did the basic drill ( plugins on/off, different theme, reinstall) you recommended about 9 hours ago after reading through the threads with similar issues without a posted resolution. Note that others have done the same thing and are still getting the issue as well. I can find pretty much any solution online since most people have typically had a similar WordPress problem at one time or another except for this one and I’ve posted on the same thread as Linkhousemedia and Frank McClung since they are experiencing the same issue within the last few days and we all likely have the same issue. Don’t get the logic of opening up the same problem multiple times when the first instance of the posting isn’t solved and the other people are having the SAME exact issue. * I guess I I’ll just sit back and wait and see what gets posted on this thread. At this point two years of posts with the same error message (regardless of the WP version) hasn’t had a final resolution other than getting closed out due to any further activity. * Lastly scanned my site with Sucuri and everything is clean. Perhaps the next version of WP will fix it. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [number_format() error when trying to add new plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/) * [btlewand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/) * (@btlewand) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/#post-4370935) * These are what I have active that are on the linkhousemedia list. * Advanced Custom Fields WooCommerce WooCommerce Product Add-ons WooThemes Helper * I just added WooCommerce Product AddOns on Saturday and I believe WooCommerce and WooThemes Helper were updated in the last week. As noted deactivating and reactivating the plugins don’t do anything. Wouldn’t this have to be related to some entry in the database somewhere that is causing the problem when the website is trying to connect to wordpress.org. * What is frustrating for me in trying to troubleshoot this problem is thta it has been brought up before in other posts and the posts are closed out without a solution. * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-users-page-in-network-admin?replies=5](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-users-page-in-network-admin?replies=5) * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionsphp-error-9?replies=7](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionsphp-error-9?replies=7) * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionsphp-error-10?replies=4](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionsphp-error-10?replies=4) * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-dashboard-functionsphp-error?replies=27](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/network-dashboard-functionsphp-error?replies=27) * Thought a thread was closed out only when a definitive solution was found. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [number_format() & Illegal string offset 'count' errors kills Add New Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-illegal-string-offset-count-errors-kills-add-new-plugins/) * [btlewand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/) * (@btlewand) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-illegal-string-offset-count-errors-kills-add-new-plugins/#post-4364734) * Same here. Only having an issue on a website I copied over to a new subdirectory as a development site. I probably haven’t tried to search plugins for a number of days so problem could have been around awhile and am wondering if there is something in my database that is interfering with connecting to wordpress.org since the database was copied over a few weeks back. Reinstalled wp 3.71 and no change. Also turned plugins on and off. No change there either. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [number_format() error when trying to add new plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/) * [btlewand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/) * (@btlewand) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/number_format-error-when-trying-to-add-new-plugins/#post-4370865) * Am setting up my site and ran across same problem in the last day or so. There doesn’t seem to be a clear solution or even an idea of where to troubleshoot. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Gallery – Photo Albums Plugin] thumbnails not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnails-not-working-12/) * [btlewand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/) * (@btlewand) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnails-not-working-12/#post-3657208) * Solution for my case: Determined the image size loaded is important. When creating a thumbnail in the WordPress Media library pick the largest size for the image selected, otherwise the image may not be big enough to generate a viewable thumbnail for the post. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Gallery – Photo Albums Plugin] thumbnails not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnails-not-working-12/) * [btlewand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/) * (@btlewand) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnails-not-working-12/#post-3657207) * Installed Lite Version. Initially image loaded into first sample post. Deleted image and then nothing. Created a second post. No image. Whenever no image is attached see “Photo Coming Soon” but once image attached there is no image. Tried the following: * 1) Delete old image and attach another 2) Clear cookies and cache 3) Deactivate and reactivate plugins 4) Insured a php.ini file was in root WordPress directory with GD Library info as noted in this forum 5) Tried viewing in IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. * Might be interested in paid version but not if getting images to show is such a big problem. Any more potential solutions? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 23 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btlewand/replies/page/2/?output_format=md)