Basil.Brooks

Thanks so much @macksix

I too had this problem on Siteground when enabling the Firewall in Wordfence on a fresh WordPress 4.9.2 install as per the info on this page: https://docs.wordfence.com/en/Web_Application_Firewall_Setup to create a php.ini

I immediately got the PHP error: “Warning: array_merge(): Argument #2 is not an array in ../load.php on line 63”

Error only occurred with PHP 7.2.1 not with 7.1.13

Added your code to the php.ini, renamed the .opcache folder, error sorted under all PHP versions

@wfyann maybe the Web_Application_Firewall_Setup page could be updated with this info or a least a link to this thread.

@sterndata agreed about modifying core files but maybe the WordPress dev team could look at better error handling/defensive code in load.php or am I missing the point?

Thanks everybody for your help sorting these niggly issues, what would we do without you.

Basil ??

Thanks so much @macksix

I too had this problem on Siteground when enabling the Firewall in Wordfence on a fresh WordPress 4.9.2 install as per the info on this page: https://docs.wordfence.com/en/Web_Application_Firewall_Setup to create a php.ini

I immediately got the PHP error: “Warning: array_merge(): Argument #2 is not an array in ../load.php on line 63”

Error only occurred with PHP 7.2.1 not with 7.1.13

Added your code to the php.ini, renamed the .opcache folder, error sorted under all PHP versions

@wfyann maybe the Web_Application_Firewall_Setup page could be updated with this info or a least a link to this thread.

@sterndata agreed about modifying core files but maybe the WordPress dev team could look at better error handling/defensive code in load.php or am I missing the point?

Thanks everybody for your help sorting these niggly issues what would we do without you.

Basil ??

btw I don’t work for Wordfence! ??

Hi Eventualo

Glad to hear you’re looking at it.

It wasn’t intended as a criticism of your plugin, of course a hacker first has gain to access to WordPress admin which in this case seems to have been done via a vulnerability in an out of date Revolution Slider plugin.

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/04/mossack-fonseca-breach-vulnerable-slider-revolution/

I run Wordfence on all my sites which reminds me when plugins need updating it also tells me when hackers are locked out due to failed login attempts. I was amazed at the number of bots that attack my websites with brute force login attempts!

In my opinion WordPress core could do more to improve login security, but that’s another story!

So two things for admins to learn from all this:

1. Make sure your admin account is kept very secure

2. Make sure to keep WordPress and all plugins completely up to date!

But you all knew that, right!

Stay Safe Out There – All the Best

Basil

Thanks pfitzgld

Found a simpler solution, hope it works for everyone: Go to your list of plugins, and for Google Analyticator you’ll find ‘Settings | Reset | Deactivate | Edit’ – ‘Reset’ works! (in the sense that you don’t get “Are you sure you want to do this? Please try again.” but you do have to get the Analytics key etc again)

worked for me!

Hello Good People

Thanks for the feedback so far.

I also get the same error 3 times running a local MAMP server when I go Dashboard > Updates

Warning: An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with www.ads-software.com or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums. (WordPress could not establish a secure connection to www.ads-software.com. Please contact your server administrator.) in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/bbthemetest/wp/wp-includes/update.php on line 302

also on line 466 and on line 122

I’m also getting a similar error when i go Appearance > Themes > Add New and no themes are displayed.

An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with www.ads-software.com or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums

However occasionally the themes do display and there is no error which is very odd. Could this suggest some sort of timeout issue? I have 1.7 Mb download and 0.5 Mb upload speeds.

I am running latest MAMP PRO 3.4 on latest OSX 10.10.5 with latest versions of WordPress 4.3.1, Themes and Plugins. Running PHP 5.6.10, MySQL 5.5.42

I have checked and the curl extension is enabled and Apache has the ssl_module installed.

The php code on those lines creates a connection to the url:

https//:api.www.ads-software.com/themes/update-check/1.1/

If I paste the url in my browser I seem to connect ok and get

Error: No themes specified.

Have spent several hours googling and trying different stuff without any result, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks a Lot ??

Basil

I had the same issue with an auto-upgrade to 4.0, couldn’t login to control panel, front-end was still working fine.

I fixed it via this thread

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/cant-login-after-400-update?replies=19

i had to copy the latest wp-settings.php from github, seems that this wasn’t updated by the upgrade, not sure why?

Had the same error though not multisite, in my case it was an out of date version of the backupwordpress plugin. Renamed folder which de-activated the plugin, named folder back, updated plugin, activated, problem solved.