Recent plugin updates breaks the site

Same here ,just updated and now critical error. We have disabled the plugin until there is a fix.

Hello @dvharrison , @anxiousminds ,

Can you please tell us what the error message is?

Warmly,

Teo.

The standard there has been a critical error on this website message.

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The standard ‘there has been a critical error on this website’

@dvharrison can you please ask your hosting provider for a php error log from when the critical error happened ? We could not reproduce the issue on our end.

I’ve got the same issue on multiple sites. A Rollback to 3.1.17 (https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/strong-testimonials.3.1.17.zip fixes it for now.

The PHP error log didn’t show any error (various hosts), neither did the debug.log with WP_DEBUG enabled, so I ended up using the Query Monitor plugin to get an error on my screen:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: ltrim(): Argument #1 ($string) must be of type string, array given
in /.../wp-includes/formatting.php on line 4482

Call stack:

ltrim()
wp-includes/formatting.php:4482
esc_url()
wp-content/plugins/strong-testimonials/includes/functions-template.php:58
wpmtst_the_title()
wp-content/plugins/strong-testimonials/templates/default/content.php:27
include()
wp-content/plugins/strong-testimonials/includes/class-strong-view-slideshow.php:108
Strong_View_Slideshow::build()
wp-content/plugins/strong-testimonials/includes/class-strong-testimonials-view-shortcode.php:100
Strong_Testimonials_View_Shortcode::render_view()
wp-content/plugins/strong-testimonials/includes/class-strong-testimonials-view-shortcode.php:45
Strong_Testimonials_View_Shortcode::testimonial_view_shortcode()
wp-includes/shortcodes.php:434
do_shortcode_tag()
preg_replace_callback()
wp-includes/shortcodes.php:273
do_shortcode()
wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:324
WP_Hook::apply_filters()
wp-includes/plugin.php:205
apply_filters()
wp-includes/post-template.php:256
the_content()
wp-content/themes/child_theme/page.php:21
include()
wp-includes/template-loader.php:106
require_once()
wp-blog-header.php:19
require()
index.php:17

Thank you @josklever my clients website just had a critical error due to this update, when I rolled back to 3.1.17 its working again.

I hope they can get this figured out, looking for a new solution for my client.

Critical error on my site as well. I manually updated to Version 3.1.19 and the front end had the critical error, Admin area still available. When I disable the plugin the site is available again.

Not sure if it helps, but when the site was down, I went to edit a different plugin’s code through the Plugin File Editor. When I saved, I got this message:

Your PHP code changes were not applied due to an error on line 21 of file wp-content/plugins/strong-testimonials/includes/elementor/class-strong-testimonials-elementor-widget-activation.php. Please fix and try saving again

My site is using Elementor. Not sure if this is helpful.

Hello,

We’re pleased to inform you that a fix has been identified and is now available in the newly released version 3.1.20.

Thank you, @dvharrison, @anxiousminds, @nomadr, @ncheatham and @josklever for your reports and continued patience.

Wishing you a great day,

Teo

It’s solved here. Thanks!