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All problems have been solved with DB-Cache Reloaded 1.4! 1.4 does not interfere with User Registration and even gave me a performance boost! DB-Cache Reloaded now caches about 90% of database queries (previously about 50%). You can verify at my website: https://www.bmedreport.com Nicely done!!

Sirzooro,

Thanks for the quick response. I know for sure now that DB-Cache Reloaded is the problematic plug-in. I deleted the db.php file that you mentioned and this allowed me to successfully delete the entire DB-Cache Reloaded plugin through WordPress (though it still appeared in the root file directory on the backend so I manually deleted it). And my User registration started to work perfectly now!

Also, I did a fresh re-install of DB-Cache Reloaded through WordPress to see if the misbehavior returned – it did not; however, DB-Cache does not appear to be caching anything now (check the view source of my webpage to verify). Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Chris

I tested the site by turning on/off these 3 suspect plug-ins:
1. DB-Cache Reloaded
2. Hypercache
3. Alkivia Community

The bottom line is I could not get my User area to behave appropriately with all 3 turned off. However, the behavior did change which raises some red flags.

Here is description of the behavior
1. With all 3 plug-ins off, a newly created user appears in “all” but not in the “author” (the assigned role).

2. With Alkivia on and DB-Cache on, the user now appears in “all” and twice in “author.”

3. Nothing changed with Hypercache on/off or uninstalled (but #1 still occurs of course).

4. The extra listings in “author” do not remove when the user listed in “all” is deleted, though the information in “author” goes blank. It is possible, but I am not sure, that the extra listing may disappear after a certain amount of time(I swear I had several disappear since yesterday, but not entirely sure).

5. The biggest red flag: I thought maybe the DB-Cache might be influencing this even when deactivated so I try to delete it (both through WordPress and manually). I get this error:

Warning: require_once(......bmedreport.com/wp-content/plugins/db-cache-reloaded/db-functions.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/chrisfisher/bmedreport.com/wp-content/db.php on line 700

My entire site shuts down, and only runs again after I manually reinstall DB-Cache Reloaded. Weird.

I think I will provide a link to this DB-Cache Reloaded support forum to get them involved, but I still not entirely sure that it is the problem.

Any suggestions? Is anyone else using these plugin combos?

Thanks!
Chris

Hi dB0,

I think you might have misread my post just a bit. I said that HyperCache solved many of my problems – not that it caused them. Also, notice too that I said DB Cache Reloaded (notice: Reloaded)… it is a fork of the original DB cache that is suppose to be compatible with WP 2.8.4. Check it out..

Also, I went ahead and installed the DB Cache Reloaded alongside HyperCache today and have not had a single problem, and my website seems really fast.

Sorry to disappoint with all the work you did, but best I can tell, internal server errors and random website problems are a common experience with Dream Host. I had the EXACT same issues as you, and found that many others do as well. That is – until I came across HyperCache. After I installed this plugin, notices of my website being down went to essentially zero (use to get notices throughout the week). I still get random internal server errors and the WP admin is always slow, but my website is very fast. I use WP 2.8.4. Check out my website: https://www.bmedreport.com

I then added WP Widget Cache to HyperCache with no problems for added speed. I am not sure if I can leave good enough alone as I now contemplate uninstalling the WP Widget Cache and replacing it with the DB Cache Reloaded. I read (actually at DreamHost support) that the HyperCache/DB Cache creates a fantastically fast website.

When I change the font size in the plugin’s style.css using the CSS suggestion above: A:link {font-size:11px;}, it changes my font size system wide (for example, my website name that appears in the site header). Is there a way to make it specific only to the U.C. table? Thanks! Chris

Do you recall offhand what the color code is for that orange you used? I can’t seem to locate it… that’s pretty lame of me too as this is a small css file.

I tried the font resize solution see in another thread here to solve the orange border size problem.. it worked, but it also change the font size of my website… I wish I weren’t so darned incompetent with CSS… I am fine with HTML….

Oh ya, about the photo gallery. It would nice if I could select different sizes without having to modify the global WordPress settings (i.e., large). In addition, there is no way to communicate to the user in the upload area about the specified size; if they upload something significantly different the resizing will certainly do a chop job on the user’s picture.

Thanks for the response. I had found style.css in the plugin folder, but it says, “This this is just a Sample file for ALKIVIA Styles.
The file is not loaded, and you have to set the styles in your template.
Consider this as a list of available styles to customize.” This doesn’t sound like the right file??

thanks!!
Chris

I tried again with Clean Contact.. same result.. form works, but has not boxes around the text input.

I just removed this plugin and tried Enhanced WP-ContactForm… same result. No borders around the text fields… weird. Apparently it is not the plugins since it happens on 2 different ones.

I just installed it on my website, https://www.bmedreport.com/contact-us and the fields do not show. The form works, but the fields are invisible in both Firefox 3.0.10 and IE 8.

The template author got back to me and told me to change this:

<?php if (is_single() || is_page()) { the_content(); } else { $excerpt = explode("[...]",get_the_excerpt()); echo $excerpt[0]; ?> <a class="more-link" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">More...</a><?php } ?>

To this:

<?php the_content(); ?>

geezerd- you were right on track with your suggestion. I still cannot figure for the life of me how I have always used the initial code above since I started using this template… I guess it does not matter because the template is functioning properly now. Thanks to everyone for their responses!! Chris

Deactivated the WP Post Columns plugin and it didn’t help. I may try to track down the original author of the template.. this is weirdest thing…

I previewed my site in a different template, thought i did not activate the other template, and the images and “more tag” appeared to be functioning OK. This may be a template issue.

I just remembered that the “WP Post Columns” plug-in was automatically updated yesterday. I am going to see if that could be the culprit too.

Mine has both the_excerpt() and the_content(). Here is the code:

<?php if (is_single() || is_page()) { the_content(); } else { $excerpt = explode("[...]",get_the_excerpt()); echo $excerpt[0]; ?> <a class="more-link" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">More...</a><?php } ?>
				<?php link_pages('<p>Pages: ', '</p>', 'number'); ?>

Should I change it to the_content()? I cannot images why I would be fiddling with the code on the index.php since I didn’t change anything??

Thanks again for the interest in my issue.