Mike O'Connor
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Thanks Jelena,
Here are the two plugins. Please note that Shield is working fine on several similarly-configured sites on the same server. So your team may have a hard time replicating the problem.
Fortunately, now that I can turn them off to get to Shield’s Settings, my fallback will be to reinstall all three plugins. But I’ll hold off on that so that your team can use this site as a test case.
Subscribe2 – https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/subscribe2/
Contact Form 7 – https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/contact-form-7/
Hi Jelena,
I’m using the free version of Shield as far as I know. Anyway, no email has arrived so far. Here’s a way to construct an email address for me if you’re willing to help out a mere free-version user.
Step 1 — type my first name – mike
Step 2 — type the “at” symbol
Step 3 — type the domain — haven2.comFascinating! It’s not one, but two plugins that are causing the trouble. I run them on several other sites and Shield is fine. Enabling either of those plugins causes the problem.
How would you like to proceed from here? I’m happy to help with debugging.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Gallery editing stalls with this icon – what does it mean?SOLVED: Ah. Sorry for the false alarm, but I’ll leave this here in case somebody else runs into this puzzler.
The problem was caused by upgrading from PHP 5 to PHP 7 in CPanel. I updated at the WHM level (the meta level above individual CPanel sites) and tweaked settings up there, thinking that the large gallery might be memory-bound. That didn’t work.
Then I discovered that the CPanel at the site level *also* has the ability to tweak PHP settings (in MultiPHP INI Editor). Opening execution time and memory up at the site level cured the problem. I just expanded everything that seemed relevant, so I don’t know which of these actually fixed it. Here are the ones I enlarged:
max_execution_time
max_input_time
memory_limit
post_max_size
upload_max_filesize- This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by Mike O'Connor.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Changed — can't update anything in sites after upgradeSooo sorry to bother y’all. The cause of this had nothing to do with the upgrade to WP 4.0.1, so you admin people can feel free to delete this thread if you like.
Turns out I ran an unrelated script on my server that changed the “max_post_size” parameter in the PHP.INI file from a very large value (“8M” in my case) to a very small one (“351”). My system log gave me the clue with this error message:
PHP Warning: Unknown: POST Content-Length of 1041 bytes exceeds the limit of 351 bytes in Unknown on line 0, referer: http://www.example.com/wp-admin/edit.php
That meant that some very short commands (like logins and toggle-setting) would work, while longer commands (like adding menus or updating posts) would fail.
Changing PHP.INI back to the larger value fixed the problem.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: TDO Mini Forms] Not Showing CONTENTAh. This goes in the “DOH!” department.
There’s a tick box to tell the plugin whether to display the content in the published post. If you don’t tick that, the stuff in your custom fields doesn’t show up. That’s part 1 of the fix — tick the checkbox when configuring custom fields in a form.
Part 2 — make sure the title changes (and that you type in a title), otherwise the plugin decides that there hasn’t been any change and doesn’t post.
Part 3 — probably not a bad plan to include a the “who am I?” and “content” fields in the stack of widgets when creating a form. I haven’t verified that they’re needed, but they’re what brought me out of non-content posting land.
So in summary, what caused the problem for me was having a series of three custom fields in my form, none of which were optioned to actually display in the post. Ooops. 🙂
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Pointing WordPress to non-standard MySQL instanceHm. I forgot to circle back on this one. I wrote up a pretty extensive description of how I wound up solving this problem. Click HERE to read the post — for those of you who are still wrestling with the “old mySQL database” problem.
Answering my own post — just noticed that I never followed up.
Solution in my case was to remove a file-space allocation limit on the server. Windows 2003 has a system which limits the amount of file-space a given user can use. I didn’t know about this, so when WordPress hit that limit, this was the error message it generated. It’s not a WordPress error, it’s caused at the server end.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: TDO Mini Forms] Not Showing CONTENTI’ll bump this up — with a little more info.
I have the same problem — the plugin is working, the form-posting page displays correctly, the post-preview displays the data as entered and WordPress accepts the submission. The post has a title (the IP-address/timestamp of the post) and nothing else.
I’m running WP 3.1 under Windows/IIS-6.
Things I’ve checked/tried…
Permissions on the plugin php files are the same as the rest of the site (read/execute for the great unwashed).
I toggled the Ajax setting on the form
I looked into the database for the content of the forms and couldn’t find any tables/fields that contained that kind of information (I’m hoping to use this to post scientific data, so I’m hoping that fixing the “no content” problem will also start posting entries to a database table that I can scrape)
Other active plugins (I deactivated them all and the problem persists);
– Wordbooker
– Subscribe to Comments
– Faster Image InsertAny ideas?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Pointing WordPress to non-standard MySQL instanceI bet a LOT of people are going to want to do this, now that WP 2.9 just went live and broke a bunch of sites that are on versions of MySQL lower than 4.1.22. Me, for example.
reolf, did you ever figure out how to do this? You’ll be a hero to many if you can describe what you did. 🙂