7.0.2: Critical error, had to deactivate wpdiscuz, details inside

Hello,

I had to disable wpdiscuz in an emergency, right after the upgrade to the new 7 branch (I waited till it got its second update, old habits of being careful) I found it turned every post’s page into a white page of death.

Error log, kindly emailed by wordpress:

WordPress version 5.3.3
Current theme: perso (version 2020.1)
Current plugin: wpDiscuz (version 7.0.2)
PHP version 7.2.31-1+0~20200514.41+debian10~1.gbpe2a56b

Error Details
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An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 1389 of the file /home/blogpaul/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wpdiscuz/class.WpdiscuzCore.php. Error message: Uncaught Error: [] operator not supported for strings in /home/blogpaul/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wpdiscuz/class.WpdiscuzCore.php:1389
Stack trace:
#0 /home/blogpaul/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(290): WpdiscuzCore->addPluginSettingsLink(‘

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After this, I allowed wordpress to upate itself to the 5.4 branch, it made no difference, unfortunately.

I disabled the plugin by renaming its folder in the wp-content directory, tried reactivating it once, had the same error.

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Downloading the former version of wpdizcuz, 5.3.5 from www.ads-software.com and reuploading it instead fixed the main issue, although most of my styling options are gone, sigh.
For instance, look at that weird background, I have NO idea why there’s that. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/5nXN878 , it’s wp-content/plugins/wpdiscuz5.3.5/assets/img/dark.png, that was a plain dark blue background before, and, yes, with the dark background option already before.

But, hey, not gonna complain, it’s already an improvement over dead blog post pages.

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If you guys want more testing, I’m ready to test with any version you like, I’d like to get that fixed, so I don’t mind trying stuff.

• This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Sabinooo.