[PHP Error]

@meanwood it has been flagged several times as a bug.
My post: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/php-error-400/

For some reason we haven’t heard back about a timeframe for a fix.

I think & regret that this plugin is dead in the water. Really very unfortunate because it is a great concept. I’ve been chasing them for approx 2 year’s to no avail. See https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-abandoned-56/

I’m working on patching this and releasing an update!

@clipper87 Please stop spreading false information like this. I understand you are not happy that you did not get the feature created that you wanted, but that is no reason to tell other people that this plugin is “dead in the water”.

@barrykooij I am so happy to hear this. I was just about to try to change the code myself. That may have gone really wrong (phew :p)

The truth of the matter is somewhat different I’m afraid:

I am using 2 paid extensions and for one of them (mail lock) there’s 2 issues that as far as I’m concerned are to be considered technical issues:

1. After clicking on the mail lock “download” button the download starts but there is no way to show a message or redirect to some page to confirm the download has been initiated & taken care of. Right now just continues to be displayed. Adjusting this behavior with some code imho is a very small undertaking.

2. The styling of the Download button has a problem on mobile if the label is longer than the word “Download”

And then there is indeed a feature request for a double opt-in to avoid that people enter bogus email addresses so they don’t waste my time when trying to follow up on their download. It is true that no commitments were ever made about implementing this. While unfortunate, the lack of this feature never lead me to think that the plugin is abandoned let alone spread rumors about it being abandoned.

The release history https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/download-monitor/#developers was what started worrying me and others as the last update was april 3rd 2019.
www.ads-software.com thereafter started signalling that the plug may have been abandoned / no longer maintained as it had not been tested with the last 3 versions of WordPress.

It was only per my public insistence in this forum that the plugin got a so called meta update june 8th with undisclosed “fixes and tweaks”.

Another thing that started worrying me was the lack of reply/action via private email for support requests.
I’m not trying to imply anything here so let me just share the following timeline of events which again lead me to think the plugin is being abandoned:

– The last private email about my issues I sent to @barrykooij was on june 8th. He replied that he’d do a meta update and get back to me the next day for my other issues in that email.
– The meta update materialised but I did not hear from @barrykooj until june 12th @barrykooij telling me that he had not forgotten about me.
– Nothing futher happened.
– June 24th I emailed @barrykooij to get a status update but I did not get a reply.
– July 14th I emailed @barrykooij again to get a status update & asked if this plugin was still being worked on.
– I did not get a reply.

Today august 27th -almost 3 months late- I replyed to @dyin that I suspected this plugin was dead in the water based on my experiences.

Basically I’d like to just get on with things: I have repeatedly stated that this plugin is unique & great and I’d be happy to pay for it for many more year’s to come.

I look forward to an email from you @barrykooij

@clipper87 posting your reply in https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-abandoned-56/ was probably enough, no need to copy to other threads. Let’s focus on the main topic of this thread, the Undefined variable.

As said, patching it, will be released soon!

@barrykooij you addressed me in 2 threads, I replied in both threads with the same message.

As a FINAL TAKE to this matter from my side I conclude that it was ONLY after me insisting publicly here in this forum that you came up with a meta update so that the plugin got rid of the www.ads-software.com warning that it might no longer be maintained as it had not been tested with the last 3 versions of WordPress. Today exactly the same thing is happening with the PHP error in a sense because of my reply in this thread; the PHP error was brought forward approx 5 (!) months ago and all that time you have not done a thing about it. That is the reality.

@clipper87 can you please stop posting off-topic information in other threads? Thanks in advance.

Hey @meanwood,

We released an update with a fix for PHP 7.4. Please test and let us know if you still see any errors.

I will keep an eye on the logs, just reactivated it didnt see any errors, so far so good :), Thank you