[Plugin: Editorial Calendar] JSON 500 error… Varnish issue?

Thank you for using the Editorial Calendar. I’m sorry you’re having trouble with it.

Where do you see the 500 error? Is there any more information about what’s causing it? The error code 500 is just a generic message which means something went wrong on your server.

If you disable Varnish does the issue go away? Does it matter which browser you’re using?

Thanks,
Zack

zgrossbart,

I see the same issue as described by sliceofpie, as near as I can tell. It occurs, for me, when debugging is on– aka define('WP_DEBUG',true); Toggling WP_DEBUG switches your plugin between working and broken. sliceofpie appears to be talking about a production server so maybe that isn’t it, but it produces the exact same message seen by sliceofpie.

The problem is that you have a lot of lines like $post_type = $_GET['post_type']; and if ($post_type) { in the code which will produce notices if the variable or index isn’t set. You aren’t checking that the variable/index is set before trying to use them. AJAX/Javascript functions don’t like those notices. I noticed the effect before with other plugins.

Anyway, it really is a great plugin but I do recommend cleaning it up so it doesn’t produce all those notices.

Thank you for catching that. You’re totally right. I’m making the change now to check for the item in the array before accessing it every time. It will be available in the next release.

Thanks,
Zack

Thanks so much zgrossbart and apljdi.

I was seeing the 500 error in Firebug. Turns out the larger requests were causing PHP to run out of memory, so increasing PHP’s memory solved the issue for us – But sounds like the next version will be more efficient, awesome!

Thanks again for this awesome plugin, our blog editor cannot live without it (and similar plugins do not compare…)

Very much appreciated. I look forward to the next update.

Now, off to install your plugin on three different sites. ??