Dave Hilditch

The only reason to use Reference Transactions instead of regular PayPal subscriptions is so that people can change payment levels at a later date. i.e. the new API still allows you to create standard subscriptions without requiring reference transactions.

If you were to offer the basic PayPal subscriptions that people can set up without reference transactions and then simply have the subscription created in paypal then mirrored in WooCommerce then it would work without reference transactions. The downside of this is that admins could not change the payment amount – if they wanted to change the payment amount, it would require the purchaser’s intervention to cancel and start a new subscription, but the fact is that this model is IDEAL for many of us.

In order to enable reference transactions at PayPal, you need to earn $10,000 per month in fees which if your entire business plan is based around setting up a subscription model is clearly not possible – we can’t make the money until we can take the subscriptions.

I just ended up disabling PayPal for the subscriptions and went with Stripe instead. It’s probably looking like in order to achieve what I want I’m going to have to code a payments plugin myself and I really don’t have the time. I’ve applied to Braintree in the meantime as they look to have a solution that works.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by Dave Hilditch.

Many themes come with required plugins that you must enable.

Visit your plugins page and enable the plugin called “designthemes core features”.

You should be able to visit your wp-admin page without this error occurring in order to do this by adding /wp-admin or /wp-login.php to your URL.

The pro version was updated in June. If the free version does not need an update, that would explain no updates.

I get it though – WordPress wants developers to release weekly or at least monthly updates, even if it’s just to update the readme.txt file to say it’s compatible with WordPress 6.

Correction – I updated to WooCommerce 3 on this particular site (was an outdated dev site) and it’s working perfectly now.

Thanks for an awesome little plugin!

Actually – if I remove the product that doesn’t appear in the list of approved brands (attributes) then the coupon still works.

So it looks like it’s not restricting properly at all.

There’s a very similar 3 lines of code – I actually think they misspelled the function they are trying to emulate.

You can paste the 3 lines above after the lines in the code which are something like this:

if ( !function_exists('set_magic_quotes') ) {
function set_magic_quotes($value) { return true;}
}

i.e. they run the same code for a different function called ‘set_magic_quotes’ and the function missing in PHP7 is set_magic_quotes_runtime. So after the 3 lines above, paste this:

if ( !function_exists('set_magic_quotes_runtime') ) {
function set_magic_quotes_runtime($value) { return true;}
}

It actually doesn’t matter quite so much where it goes, so long as it’s before the actual function call to set_magic_quotes_runtime.

You can always use something like Mailgun, Mandrill, Amazon SES or something similar – Mailgun gives you 12,000 free email sends. Amazon SES is really cheap.

Yeah – my fix fixes it. Probably they do have the fix in the premium version but it’s a bit crap having a broken free version out for so long.

I mean I’ve sent newsletters and not had any errors logged to debug.log so I’m sure it’s completely fixed with my fix.

I’ve posted a fix on that other thread.

Cool thanks – changing the permalink structure and back again fixed the issue.

That shouldn’t be happening – I’m looking into it now.

Hi Nishith, I’m not the developer but I just got the same error.

Luckily, I’m a developer so I managed to find the problem. You can fix using FTP – find the following file and edit it:

/wp-content/plugins/mage-google-maps/cast/mage-maps.php

On line 182 you’ll see the following code:

<? } ?>

Change that to:

<?php } ?>

and save the file.

Basically <? is a short tag and your server does not allow short tags. If you can change your server setup you can change it to allow short tags but that’s probably more complicated than the above fix.

also if you need to exclude certain classes or ids you can do this:

jQuery(“img”).not(“.cycle img, .su-jcarousel img”).lazyload({