Fatal: Plugin broke the site

  • I installed and activated the plugin to check any compatibility issue for my site (running PHP 5.6.40) that is to be upgraded to PHP 7.3. The test froze at 10th plugin, where I hit the rescan button. However, the rescan didn’t even start with 1st plugin. Then my entire admin froze and I was not even able to logout or login again.

    I tried renaming the plugin, but the issue persists, the admin is inaccessible. I checked my log and this is the message that was repeated several times every minute:

    [12-Mar-2023 19:44:21 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded in myhost/www/wp-content/plugins/php-compatibility-checker/vendor/squizlabs/php_codesniffer/CodeSniffer.php on line 306

    So it seems that the plugin is so terribly designed, that when the sniffing exceeds max execution time setting of the server, it crashes the entire site. Why is this monstrous plugin still recommended in official WordPress guides?

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  • Thread Starter smartly

    (@smartly)

    Okay, so more updates: not only did the plugin broke WordPress installation, it also broke the database of my host provider (serious paid host provider with 100 thousands of clients). As such, it is not even possible to reinstall the site from my Duplicator backup, because reinstallation needs connection to database.

    This must be the most destructive plugin I have encountered in my entire programming career.

    Same to me here! Keep fingers off this terrible plugin!!

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