4.3.2.1

Thanks. I’m totally in the dark, since the logging works in the WP administration, but apparently it doesn’t in the front (it should definitely reports what’s happening).

Could you try deactivating the cache? I see you’re using a caching system.

• This reply was modified 1 month ago by JCV.

Hi, If you mean a caching plugin, I”m using Breeze, the Cloudways one. I’ll turn it off.

PS. I just tried turning off as much as possible in plugins and disabled Cloudflare. It made no difference.

I then downgraded the Lumiere to 4.3 and it is now throwing up debug info (above the widget displaying properly).

[DEBUG] [Lumiere][Widget_Frontpage] Shortcode [lumiereWidget] found.

[DEBUG] [Lumiere][Widget_Frontpage] Custom field lumiere_widget_movieid found, using "0023563" for querying

[DEBUG] [Lumiere][Movie] Using the link maker class: Bootstrap_Links

[DEBUG] [Lumiere][Movie] The following plugins compatible with Lumière! are in use: [imdbphp]

[DEBUG] [Lumiere][Movie] Calling IMDbPHP class.

[DEBUG] [Lumiere][Movie] Movie ID provided: *0023563*.

[DEBUG] [Lumiere][Movie] Displaying rows for *0023563*

[DEBUG] [Cache] Purging old cache entries

[DEBUG] [Cache] Cache hit for [gql.TitleYear.{"id":"tt0023563"}7e5e54cb1775761ed989d18fd0a88412.json]

[DEBUG] [Cache] Cache hit for [gql.Runtimes.{"id":"tt0023563"}b9668097397e1617df139086a558e09f.json]

[DEBUG] [Cache] Cache hit for [gql.CreditCrew.{"id":"tt0023563","after":null}5f138b0160e1f03c01a11142fdb9478c.json]

[DEBUG] [Cache] Cache hit for [gql.CreditQuery.{"id":"tt0023563","after":null}5eb39a11ab4cba3656a9c7eb3aea4754.json]

[DEBUG] [Cache] Cache hit for [gql.Genres.{"id":"tt0023563"}0f07f6da43af6ecc7ef9c944543fcd0c.json]

[DEBUG] [Cache] Cache hit for [gql.CreditCrew.{"id":"tt0023563","after":null}69748072933f46990cfc14911b44e3e6.json]

[DEBUG] [Cache] Cache hit for [gql.Plots.{"id":"tt0023563"}c4da1ec4fdc84aeae4e3e49ead4f8b4a.json]

Thanks for the tests!
In order to narrow down the issue, could you kindly also try with intermediary releases? (4.3.1 and 4.3.2) can be downloaded here.

Hi again,

4.3.1 works and gives this as a debug log.

[DEBUG] [Lumiere][Widget_Frontpage] Shortcode [lumiereWidget] found.

[DEBUG] [Lumiere][Widget_Frontpage] Custom field lumiere_widget_movieid found, using "0058213" for querying

[DEBUG] [Lumiere][Movie] Using the link maker class: Bootstrap_Links

[DEBUG] [Lumiere][Movie] The following plugins compatible with Lumière! are in use: [imdbphp]

[DEBUG] [Lumiere][Movie] Calling IMDbPHP class.

[DEBUG] [Lumiere][Movie] Movie ID provided: *0058213*.

[DEBUG] [Lumiere][Movie] Displaying rows for *0058213*

[DEBUG] [Cache] Purging old cache entries

[DEBUG] [Cache] Cache hit for [gql.TitleYear.{"id":"tt0058213"}7e5e54cb1775761ed989d18fd0a88412.json]

[DEBUG] [Cache] Cache hit for [gql.Runtimes.{"id":"tt0058213"}b9668097397e1617df139086a558e09f.json]

[DEBUG] [Cache] Cache hit for [gql.CreditCrew.{"id":"tt0058213","after":null}5f138b0160e1f03c01a11142fdb9478c.json]

[DEBUG] [Cache] Cache hit for [gql.CreditQuery.{"id":"tt0058213","after":null}5eb39a11ab4cba3656a9c7eb3aea4754.json]

[DEBUG] [Cache] Cache hit for [gql.Genres.{"id":"tt0058213"}0f07f6da43af6ecc7ef9c944543fcd0c.json]

[DEBUG] [Cache] Cache hit for [gql.CreditCrew.{"id":"tt0058213","after":null}69748072933f46990cfc14911b44e3e6.json]

[DEBUG] [Cache] Cache hit for [gql.Plots.{"id":"tt0058213"}c4da1ec4fdc84aeae4e3e49ead4f8b4a.json]

4.3.2 does not work. Gives the [lumiereWidget]IMDb information[/lumiereWidget] message only

Hope this helps

Steve

That helps a lot, thank you very much @moviesteve! I appreciate you taking the time to go through painful techy things ??

Limiting my investigations to the 4.3.2 changes, I have been able to reproduce a situation where the widget is not displayed and no log either. Only the text [lumiereWidget]IMDb information[/lumiereWidget]

Would you be kind enough to replace

if ( Widget_Selection::lumiere_block_widget_isactive( Widget_Selection::BLOCK_WIDGET_NAME ) === true ) {
	add_shortcode( self::WIDGET_SHORTCODE, [ $this, 'shortcode_parser' ] );
}

by

	add_shortcode( self::WIDGET_SHORTCODE, [ $this, 'shortcode_parser' ] );

in file yourwebsite/wp-content/plugins/lumiere-movies/class/frontend/class-widget-frontpage.php?

Let me know if it makes a difference.

Hooray, that seems to have done the trick. Thanks very much for all the hard work, really appreciate it.

So happy you’ll be able to continue using the plugin ?? Sticking to an old version is never a sustainable solution.

So now it’s more relax. My guess is that the widget you’re got corrupted at some point. Either using an old WordPress widget with “classic widget” plugin. I haven’t been able to reproduce this issue, so I’m just guessing. In any case, the reason of the “bug” is that I added an extra checking in 4.3.2 to make sure the widget is active. In your case, it fails to find an active widget.

Could you let me know wether you use “classic widget” plugin or any plugin that modifies the widgets?
Or rather just copy-paste form wp-admin/site-health.php?tab=debug the list of “active plugins”. I’ll install them all to see if any of them changes the widget behaviour.

Once we solve this, we’ll see what’s happening with the cache.

Hi again (and thanks again)

Don’t think I”m using a classic widget but to be honest I am stumbling around in the dark a bit. If it’s not affecting anyone else then it must be something specific to me, I suppose.

Here’s the list of plugins. As for the cache, it’s quite big 5.7gb or something last time I looked.

Cheers, Steve

FS PosterVersion 6.6.3 by FS-Code | Auto-updates disabled

GenerateBlocksVersion 1.9.1 by Tom Usborne | Auto-updates disabled

GP PremiumVersion 2.4.1 by Tom Usborne | Auto-updates disabled

ImagifyVersion 2.2.4 by Imagify Image Optimizer – Optimize Images & Convert WebP & Avif | Auto-updates disabled

Kadence Blocks – PRO ExtensionVersion 2.5.4 by Kadence WP | Auto-updates disabled

Kadence Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks for Page Builder FeaturesVersion 3.4.6 by Kadence WP | Auto-updates disabled

Lumière MoviesVersion 4.3.2.1 by psykonevro | Auto-updates disabled

PerfmattersVersion 2.3.8 by forgemedia | Auto-updates disabled

Pods – Custom Content Types and FieldsVersion 3.2.8.1 by Pods Framework Team | Auto-updates disabled

Pods Alternative CacheVersion 2.2.0 by Pods Framework Team | Auto-updates disabled

Rank Math SEOVersion 1.0.236 by Rank Math SEO | Auto-updates disabled

Schema ProVersion 2.7.23 by Brainstorm Force | Auto-updates disabled

Wordfence SecurityVersion 8.0.3 by Wordfence | Auto-updates disabled

Yet Another Stars RatingVersion 3.4.13 by YetAnotherStarsRating.com | Auto-updates disabled

I tried to install the free versions of this list, couldn’t reproduce any issue. But since some of them allow to highly change the core of WordPress, I would need your specific customized wordpress blocks to understand what’s going on. Would be too much work.

Since I can’t remember why I made this modification on the widget, I will remove it in the next WordPress. But beware, it may happen I had a good reason, so it may come back at some point. I don’t expect that, though.

Regarding the cache, since you have 5 Go of data, I don’t believe it’s related to the latest Lumière releases, but to your huge amount of files. I tested up to 100 movies, I couldn’t see any issue to display the cache, but the manage cache page retrieves the files then do queries to the IMDb, which means something like 2500 queries in a couple of seconds…

The only solution I can forsee is to disable the cache display as you already did. The latest Lumière versions actually improve the efficency of that page of administration. There is still room for improvement, like implementing a cache system, but I don’t want to create a cache for cached files. Let’s see if more users have this need in the future.

In the meantime I close this request and thanks again for going through all of this.

Hi JCV, I think it all worked out OK in the end. Thanks for all the hard work. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for the future!

Steve