version 3.01 updated buttons missing

Oh have tried activating and re-activating but I only go a small % of my buttons back. I use a lot for linking to my hotel affiliates Any help appreciated as this a lot of work to restore and it has lost all my call to actions for booking…many thanks

I am also saving new buttons and finding they no longer list in numerical order, the new ones randomly listed.

Hi,

You mean the ID’s of the buttons have shifted? This is a problem we uncovered a while ago and we are planning to release an update tomorrow for that problem. So in the mean time I can recommend using the old plugin, and then try to migrate again when the new update is released.

This is only in case the numbers (id) of the buttons changed, though, I’m not sure if that’s the case?

I have two problems it seems.

1) After the update, I initially had no buttons. I followed advice here and ended up with about 10% only of my previous buttons. I have tried several times to activate and deactivate but with the same result – it’s lot of work that has gone awol.

2) I recreated a new button but then noticed that this is not added to the list of the existing buttons at the bottom i.e as the next id in sequence but randomly somewhere in the middle.

If I go back to the old plug-in will I get all of my old buttons back? or since I have started with the new database as discussed above, will this have now overwritten the old one.

many thanks

To be clear on the last post, the new button’s id is numerically in sequence but physically it is shown in the middle rather than at the bottom as it should be.

I have gone back to the old plug-in for now and got the buttons back – the two different entries are there in the database. Maybe I will try a new update when it is released – at least I know I have a fallback position by reverting to 1.37. But I do like to be up to date…

Many thanks and I still love the plug-in, it’s great for affiliate deeplinks in my case, very useful and easy to use..

Bas

As promised 5 star review posted, and deservedly so.

Bill

Hi Bas,

Can you please confirm that I must delete the table called ‘wp_maxbuttonsv3’ which was created on the first unsuccessful attempt at updating to 3.02 before I attempt to try this update from 1.37 to 3.02 again?

Many thanks

@hawkeye21 Thanks!

@dan Please update to version 3.03 before trying to update again.

What is important is that the wp_maxbuttonsv3 table should not only be empty but also ‘-new-‘, due to the way ID’s are handled. So it’s best to completely remove that table (only! that table) and activate the plugin after updating it.

Before you try it’s always best to make a backup of course, just in case.

Let me know what happens with the new update. If you still have some problems somewhere, try to check for errors or make screenshots what happens, so we can find and fix the problem ??

Hi Bas,

Removed table in phpMyAdmin, back to WP admin, updated from 1.37 to 3.03. Update ok (using wp update button in plugins page), then activate. This triggers fatal error “unable to activate”. Retry activate, it works but only about 20% of buttons come through if that (80). I have a lot (370+)!

Very wary of trying the new migrate button (it says all over it be wary!) in case this loses my fallback of 1.37 database table completely. I have reverted back to that again now.

Thanks

Hi Dan,

We intentionally made the new version work on a different table so you can never lose the old database table data.

I’m not really able to place the error you are getting. Was there any additional error present? In any case if possible could you email the old table ( in sql ) to support @ maxfoundry . com ( via phpmyadmin and the likes you can export a table ) , so I can investigate?

Hi Bas, table sent as requested to email [email protected]
Many thanks

My buttons were gone but I uninstalled and re-installed the MaxButtons and everything appeared.

Hi, I’m having similar issue with only the button name showing on the site, and it will not work. I upgraded Max Buttons and received an error in WP that PHP version 5.3 or higher was required and that I am running PHP 5.2. However, I am actually running PHP 5.3.6 on the server. How do I get Max Buttons to correctly recognize the PHP version and work once again. I have deactivated and reactivated several times with no joy.

Hi Gary,

That’s strange since we are using PHP’s own version compare function which should be right all the time. Do you know the exact version number you are running?

For now you can open maxbuttons.php with a text editor and remove this whole code block:

if ( version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.3.0', '<' ) ) {

	add_action( 'admin_notices', 'maxbuttons_php52_nono' );
	return;
}

That should disable the check for now. In an update this check will probably go anyway since it’s not effective.