Solid plugin’s Digest email received in wrong language
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Today I received a Weekly Security Digest notification email in French.
Previously it had always been in English. No changes have been made to the site by our staff.
My WordPress language settings defined at /wp-admin/options-general.php specify English as the site’s default language.
My relevant admin user’s preferred language setting is defined as “Site default”
WPML is installed on the website for an alternate French version of the website but no modifications have been made to its settings that would allow it to translate outgoing emails.
- ?? /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpml-string-translation%2Fmenu%2Fstring-translation.php
- ?? /wp-admin/admin.php?page=sitepress-multilingual-cms%2Fmenu%2Ftheme-localization.php
Although outgoing emails are sent by WP Mail SMTP no modifications have been made to translate emails into another language from its settings or configuration.
All other site notification emails are in english (eg: Password reset)
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Hi @skunkworks,
The Security Digest email is a so called scheduled email. The SolSec plugin scheduled emails check callback is hooked to the WordPress core init action. This means that there is a scheduled emails check performed on EVERY request to the site. If a scheduled email is due it gets send.
Now it is possible to add some extra debug info at the bottom of every (non-user) email send. It is useful for identifying what site request triggered the email to be send (eg WP Cron job or a site request URL). You simply add the line below to the wp-config.php file:
define( 'ITSEC_DEBUG', true );As an example, if an email being send was triggered by WP Cron you’ll find at the bottom of the email:
Debug info (source page): WP-Cron
Other source page values include WP-CLI, unknown or the full URL of the request that triggered the email to be send. The latter is probably what you’ll get to see by default in the Security Digest email. I guess that if the locale is set to France in the context of the request the email will be send in French language.
Alternatively you can offload the SolSec plugin scheduled emails check to WP Cron by adding the line below to the wp-config.php file:
define( 'ITSEC_NOTIFY_USE_CRON', true );Apart from the performance gain perhaps this will also help making the Security Digest email language more constant.
+++ To prevent any confusion, I’m not SolidWP +++
Hi @skunkworks,
Just wanted to add 2 relevant pieces of info:
- Adding the ITSEC_DEBUG constant to the wp-config.php will also add a new Debug submenu option to the Solid Security plugin main Security menu. That is the Debug page @shanedelierrr is referring to.
- The Security Digest email is not send when there is nothing to report (even when the Debug page shows that it’s scheduled). Which totally makes sense. Nothing to report means, there have not been any lockouts nor any detected file changes since the last send Security Digest email.
Based on the fact that you changed the wp-config.php file, the File Change module should have picked up that change, consequently sending the Security Digest email. That is, if the File Change module is enabled!
I know the last Security Digest was in French language, but (if not deleted yet) please check it’s content (use Google translate if you have to). The email content will tell us what security event/feature triggered that Security Digest email to be send (lockout(s) and/or file change(s)).
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