crdunst

Hi guys, sorry for the delayed reply, but I have identified two more sites doing this now. Both are having issues with the ‘file change’ check incorrectly sending emails.

Both have the directories/files in question added to their ‘exclude’ lists, but the file change email triggers anyhow in both cases.

One site is trying to exclude a ‘error_log’ file, without success. The other site is trying to exclude Rank Math xml file changes.

On the first site (error_log file) I’ve set your debug to ‘true’ and clicked the reset button as advised above, but I’m still getting emails.

One thought – in the debug screen, in the ‘settings’ section, I selected ‘file-change’, and the ‘expected_hashes’ value is incorrect – it still has the path from the previous demo URL it was sitting on before go live. Could this be causing the false-positive?

Thanks in advance.

+1 and nothing in the changelog security related.

Hi, I can’t recall which client site this related to on my original post, but I do recall trying the exclusion of the cached directory, to no avail. I think we ended up turning off the notifications for the site in question.

Off topic, but the issue that comes up frequently is receiving the file change notification emails on sites, but the file dates are from months, sometimes years ago. We often receive an email saying x thousand files removed, then the next day x thousand files added. In both cases, really old dates.

This happens on multiple sites that are kept up-to-date, (but they’re not immediately after a round of updates) so they’re not genuine, just false alerts. Have you come across this before?

Hi, ACF is just a tool to save data in the dashboard, against different post types, taxonomies etc.

You then need to edit your front-end theme templates to retrieve that data and use/display it.

If you created a field called ‘Lead time’ for example against Woo products, in the dashboard you can save a lead time value against each product.

You’d then need to edit your template to say for example ‘Delay on this product: [write out data here]’.

ACF is completely compatible with Woo and most other plugins. Hope that helps.

Just commenting to be notified of replies as we’ve just noticed trashed products appearing in search too.

Plugin author – are you still maintaining this plugin? Thanks.

+1, came here to see if anyone else had flagged up.

I get frustrated closing the flyout ‘tooltips’ of yours, constantly on multiple client sites, but a meta box above the publish box on the on the edit post page is a step too far in my view.

I get you need to advertise pro, and we welcome the free tool – keep your top nav link if you like, and your dashboard meta box, but be fair and please remove this – if every plugin did the same thing, we’d be in a mass of adverts.

This is getting worse – I even raised a ticket trying to standardise plugin notifications. You’re going to hasten such a system with spammy meta boxes.

@rainfallnixfig once again, thanks for your time and efforts, much appreciated.

It’s strange it’s happening on both live, and a local copy if it’s environment related.

I’ll double-check for errors, and could potentially strip out customer data from a clone of the DB to share with you if I can’t get to the bottom of it.

I’ll report back, thanks again…

@rainfallnixfig thanks for coming back to me, and attempting to recreate and screenshotting.

Slightly crossed wires though – the search where the results are inconsistent is when trying to add a product to a pending order.

So if you have an order in ‘pending payment’ status, you can go into the order and add an item to the order. It’s this ajax product search that seems to be giving inconsistent results.

Please see the following:

‘kooky’ = no results
https://snipboard.io/oXB6aF.jpg

‘lemur’ = a different product is returned with Lemur in desc field, but not the product in question:
https://snipboard.io/Sbaogi.jpg

‘wallpaper in silver’ = finds the item
https://snipboard.io/X4BF1R.jpg

‘[sku]’ = finds the item
https://snipboard.io/YtCFAX.jpg

Based on the above, are you able to recreate this?

Thanks in advance.

Hi @rainfallnixfig thanks for coming back to me, sorry for the delay.

I’ve tried on my local copy as you suggest, disabling all but Woo plugin, switching to Storefront, it’s still happening.

The item is called ‘Kooky Lemur Wallpaper in Silver’. Searching for:

> ‘kooky’ = no matches found
> ‘lemur’ = product not found, just 3 variations of another item with Lemur in title, but lots of items have ‘Lemur’ in the title, they’re not found either
> ‘wallpaper in silver’ = item found as expected
> ‘[sku]’ = item found as expected

It’s puzzling. Are you able to signpost me to the code in Woo please that handles this ajax search and returns the results, so I can debug it?

Many thanks.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by crdunst.

I should clarify – Gutenberg as a tool in its own right, is impressive. It’s the inclusion in core, and the resulting growth around it, I object to.

Explaining to a business owner, a less-techie carpet store owner for example, is challenging enough with classic:

“Okay so your contact details and email recipients go in Theme Options just here. Anything in the sidebars and footer that are on every page go in Widgets. Adding to your menu? Go here.
Then click here to create a news story, type your text and hit the blue button to publish”

~ Blank stare ~

Trying it with Gutenberg:

“Click in the area to create a block”
“Where?”
“Anywhere, it’ll create the block automatically”
“How do I add a photo on the left hand side?”
“Okay select the columns”
“I can’t see any columns”
“The step icon at the top, click that to see the document outline and select the columns you want to edit”
“The document what?”
“Just click it, you should see the number of columns in the right sidebar, change from 2 to 3”
“I don’t have a right hand sidebar”
“Click the cog at the top to show it”
“I can see it, but I have ‘Status, featured image’ and some other options”
“Ah, okay you have the page options selected. Near the top, click ‘Block'”
~ 10 minutes later ~
“Okay I’ve added my image, I want it to go live for our sale on Monday”
“Right hand column, under status, we can change the publish date”
“I’m not seeing a publish option, just some colour options..”

A drawn out example, but you get the point. Non-techies want to write simple instructions on a post-it note next to their PC, as they edit perhaps once a month -> Add New, Type in Big Box, Blue Publish Button.

On the other hand, I’ve just finished working on an agency site, and building custom blocks for them. They’re power users, so all good.

I just think WP has lost its way in terms of who most installations are. They’re not bloggers, or agencies, or developers like us. They’re small business owners, hoteliers, manufacturers and so on. Gutenberg should be an add-on for those who want it, just like Visual Composer, Divi or Elementor.

Hope that helps.

Noted. Just submitted a ticket, will close this thread.

This caught me out too, but caching at our firewall level. Flushing that cache did the trick, thanks.

Ah, I’m trying to put in an ampersand ‘& amp;’ but without the space in between. On my last post WordPress converted it to a regular &

Not sure if the OP will see this, but this wasn’t working as posted.

The code works, but the case wouldn’t match, instead of:

case 'Billing & Shipping'

Change it to:

case 'Billing & Shipping'

That works fine

Pah, WordPress caching issues here too. If any mods see this, please delete the duplicate post..