Errors as soon as I install

I have seen you have a lot of posts about other plugins not working. The problem could be related to your WordPress installation.

The plugin was tested on WP and works very fine.

Thank you for the reply, however, I had one other problem with a plugin not working upon install. I told the author of this problem and he updated his plugin to fix it. See: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/errors-as-soon-as-i-install

Yes it is strange that I got two plugins in a row to throw errors upon install, but the warnings from both are different errors.

I would appreciate it if you could give me some insight into the errors I am getting as it is only happening with your plugin.

This is weird. Again the plugin was tested on different WordPress versions and using different themes and worked as expected. I don’t know what kind of issue you have with your WordPress site, so I really can’t help much. Make sure you have the latest version of WP and the plugin.

Both are latest versions. I’ll talk to my go-to people to look into this and post back with what I find out…

Great! Thanks

Everything is ok on your side Trishah,
Your php configuration is configured by defaut to show notice errors
in your php.ini file i think you will have the error_reporting set to:
Default Value: E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

there’s other values it can take
Development Value: E_ALL | E_STRICT
Production Value: E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED

More details can be found here
https://php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php

but anyway, the developper of the plugin should verify if the variable exist first before using it, it’s only natural

in line 466
if($_POST[‘which’]==’new_portfolio_item’){

it should be
if(isset($_POST[‘which’]) && $_POST[‘which’]==’new_portfolio_item’){

You can do the same for the rest,

There’s another way to solve this but i don’t recommend it,
put this
error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE);
right after <?php at the beginning of the file

it will omit the notice errors but as i said i don’t recommend it, it’s better to fix them

Hope it helps.

Ok I see, when you tried that, was the plugin working for you?

Hello BriniA,

I did as Hamza suggested and replaced the 4 error lines with his solution, swapping out the terms that were being called, and I was able to activate the plugin without any errors ??

Thank you Hamza for the solution. I hope this solution will be added to the next release/update.

Ok that’s terrific. I will add this in a new update. Hamza, could you explain why it didn’t worked particularly for trishahdee? Just curious about that, since I tested my self the plugin on different servers and configurations.

Sure of course,
I’m using XAMPP on windows,
in the C:\xampp\php\php.ini file
i have the error reporting set by default to :
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_DEPRECATED

This will show all errors, except for notices and coding standards warnings (Code that will not work in future versions of PHP)

The show the notices use this:
error_reporting = E_ALL | E_STRICT

create a file on your www ( htdocs ) folder and write

<?php
if($_GET[‘t’])
echo “Hello World!”;
?>

you should get this
Notice: Undefined index: t in C:\xampp\htdocs\post.php on line 2

when visiting
https://localhost/post.php

Hope this helps,
And sorry for my language ??

Best Regards.

Thanks so much Hamza, this has been very helpful.