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The problem is still present when using the default theme (Twenty Fourteen).
I forgot to answer your other questions:
I’m using a standalone version of wordpress. It might be worth noting that someone else did the base installation, but I believe they just used some kind auto installer from GoDaddy.
Yes, my investigations have been done with the X-theme active. At a glance, it does not appear to have any media settings. At least there is no standalone media settings among it’s options and I do not think it has added anything to the default media library options. I’ll try it without though, after I’ve backed-up the site.
Actually, I didn’t apologize. I merely continued to investigate the matter and reported my findings which vindicated your plugin … or at least suggest vindication. I will now though apologize for my earlier review given that it seems the problem does lie elsewhere.
However, I must also emphasize that your response to my review was extremely inappropriate. You took it very personally, and that showed in your writing. Your response was very combative. You should have approached it in a much more level-headed investigative manner, rather than verbally ripping my head off for my review. Yes, I know you’ll say that that’s not what you were doing, but unfortunately the record shows otherwise and merely denying it afterward doesn’t change what really happened.
Incidentally – I did first look for a support forum for your plugin in which to post my first remarks but did not find one. That is why it ended up as a review. If there is such a forum, please provide the link to it.
Also, if you do discover what the source of that problem is it would be appreciated if you posted that information here, or a link to a blog post or something where you explain your findings.
All the best … I actually do mean that:)
I’ve checked my wp-config.php for “define( ‘MEDIA_TRASH’, true);” and simply “MEDIA_TRASH” while Enable Media Replace (EMR) and Force Regenerate Thumbnails (FRT) are both active. It is not there (I’m using the search function in notepad++).
Interestingly I am now getting that odd behavior again (the image still showing though it has been deleted), this time when your plugin is not installed. It now appears that these images will get “stuck” until ANY plugin is deactivated (I’ve tried it now with two others), after which it will properly fail to appear when you reload the page. Still more odd is the fact that if I then re-upload the image, it will then not show-up, even on the ftp, until a plugin is activated (I’ve not tried all combinations to know whether it needs to be the same plugin that was just deactivated or not. In my case I was reactivating the plugin that was most recently deactivated).
This suggests that the root of this problem lies in the wordpress core rather than with any particular plugin. I have previously speculated that wordpress may be making copies of images directly in the database for some purpose, but could find no such indication in my web searches.
In most cases where I have noticed this problem I have had an active link to the webpage where the given image was to be displayed running at the time that I deleted the image. Is it possible that when an image is being sourced by a visitor to a site that there is a cache version of it stored in either the database or somewhere else on the server? And that this could be what is being sourced when there should be no image?
What I keep coming back to is the fact that somehow the data which is the given image, is still accessible to web-browsers, even ones on completely different computers, when by all normal means of checking it has been deleted.
I have neither the desire nor the depth of knowledge required to pick this one apart in short-order, so I leave it to you and anyone who feels inclined to investigate it. Gratefully I do not have to deal with many images for this site, so I will be just fine with the available workarounds.
Seriously? Yes it is true that I haven’t done a 100% investigation into the issue (frankly, I don’t have the time), and it’s easy to understand why you would be annoyed at a bad review done without it, however:
1) it is likewise clear that whatever the exact problem is, your plugin is involved. Otherwise a mere removal of your plugin would not solve the issue.
2) EML would not need to mess with image deletion to create the kind of problems I pointed out. Read my description of the problems more carefully.
3) Theme X is literally that – a theme named “x – the theme” on themeforest.Annoyance at a bad review aside you should still take this from it: that somehow your plugin is, in the context of my installed plugins and themes, resulting in the problems I have described. It’s worth your time to look into why that could be. To aid your investigation, the other plugins I have installed include: Coming Soon Page, Contact Form 7, Enable Media Replace, Force Regenerate Thumbnails, Go Daddy Quick Setup, Revolution Slider and X – Shortcodes.
As you pointed out, the Enable Media Replace and Force Regenerate Thumbnails plugins are the most likely co-culprits, but do remember that with them alone installed I am not experiencing the problems I described. However, I will try deactivating those, reinstalling yours and then check to see if the same problem occurs. I’ll then post my results.