John

Hi Florian,

Thank you for your help with this. I went back to discuss with WP Engine and here is their latest reply:

I did a bit more digging on this with my senior tech and took a closer look into the error message that we are seeing. Right now, in the error, it looks like the plugin is attempting to access the file /nas/content/live/yettercoleman/wp-content/plugins/wp-mpdf/cache/tmp/dejavusanscondensed.GSUBGPOStables.dat . However, when I look into the server in this directory that file doesn’t exist. As if the file has been removed or gone missing. We are not seeing anything specific on our end that would cause or block permissions for this plugin. In addition I confirmed that the php user doesn’t change and always remains www-data.

In addition, I did a thorough search through our previous tickets relating to this plugin and there have been similar issues reported but no resolution was reached. I spoke further with one of our most senior techs and it was recommended that at this point an alternative plugin may be the best alternative solution. In a couple of the tickets that I went through, this was also our recommended solution. In addition I searched through previous forum responses with similar issues on our platform and was unable to locate a viable solution at this time. I did locate this plugin, https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/e2pdf/ as well as article here https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/4-plugins-to-provide-pdfs-of-wordpress-posts-but-why-manual-is-better/ with additional recommendations that might be able to offer you a viable alternative solution.

Can you think of anything else we can do here before considering another plugin solution?

Best,
John

Hi @voltronik,

Thank you for the reply. Good to know. I’ll investigate further and see what the best solution will be for us.

Here’s what I received back from Apple New support:

“It appears that there may be an issue with the WordPress plugin. To resolve this issue, please work with the developers of the plugin, Alley Interactive, to further investigate the issue with images.”

Hi Bradford,

Do you see any issues with this code? I’m not familiar with all of the ins and outs of the plugin and I want to make sure it’s not going to break something else.

function gp_apple_news_skip_push($skip, $post_id) {

    $apple_news_id = get_post_meta( $post_id, 'apple_news_api_id', true );
    if ( ! empty( $apple_news_id ) ) {
        return $skip;
    }

    if (strpos(get_the_title($post_id), 'FTA:') === 0) {
        $skip = true;
    }

    return $skip;

}
add_filter( 'apple_news_skip_push', 'gp_apple_news_skip_push', 10, 2 );

Thank you Bradford. Something like this?

function custom_apple_news_skip_push( $params ) {
    if ($this->id == ...) {
        return true;        
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}
add_filter( 'apple_news_skip_push', 'custom_apple_news_skip_push' );

What parameters the does apple_news_skip_push filter expect?