Dubsy

Hi,

I’ve been back and forward in communications with my webhost most of the night and they are now saying they have fixed the issue. I no longer get the 404 when posting.

When I run the debugger from inside website though, on the second attempt I’m still getting the can’t connect with Jetpack message (I have cleared my cache and cookies).

I was wondering if you were able to see if you can connect now from your end?

The issue was ModSecurity (unfortunately my host doesn’t allow me access to change these, so I have to go through them which can be a long process to get it all right).

Cheers
-Tina

• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Dubsy.

I deactivated it, removed the custom rules and put in a standard .htaccess and I’m now getting a general 404 error.

I’ll go through and remove all plugins and change the theme and see if the error persists.

I was concerned that changing my Akismet account could have triggered something (I now have two Akismet license accounts one for my non-hobby sites and one for my hobby sites).

Shall let you know how I go.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Dubsy. Reason: was a 400 error, now a 404
• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Dubsy. Reason: updating information

I removed some custom .htaccess code regarding the XML-RPC which apparently had become redundant over the years (I found some other posts on their forum about this issue from a few months ago). This may have caused the response you received. I’ve run the Jetpack debug and it says the connection is fine, but I’m still getting the 400 error above.

I’ve also received this error:
[21-Oct-2017 08:05:05 UTC] PHP Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTML(): htmlParseEntityRef: expecting ‘;’ in Entity, line: 1 in /home/sellmyda/tinadubinsky.com/wp-content/plugins/jetpack/json-endpoints/jetpack/class.jetpack-json-api-plugins-endpoint.php on line 214

And WordPress.com which has the site listed is saying I’m not the site’s owner. ??

• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Dubsy.

I don’t know, you tell me. It’s no longer in my plugin list. And I’ve ftp’d in to check and there’s no folder for it under plugins. BUT every time there is an update, I get notified that this app is attempting to create new tables.

[New DB Table Created – Cron Check Time September 14, 2017 – 6:05 pm]
New DB Table Created Name: wp_newsletter
New DB Table Actual Create Time: 2017-09-14 03:53:56
DB Monitor Guide: https://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/database-monitor-dbm-guide/

[New DB Table Created – Cron Check Time September 14, 2017 – 6:05 pm]
New DB Table Created Name: wp_newsletter_emails
New DB Table Actual Create Time: 2017-09-14 03:53:56
DB Monitor Guide: https://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/database-monitor-dbm-guide/

[New DB Table Created – Cron Check Time September 14, 2017 – 6:05 pm]
New DB Table Created Name: wp_newsletter_stats
New DB Table Actual Create Time: 2017-09-14 03:53:56
DB Monitor Guide: https://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/database-monitor-dbm-guide/

To me, that means there must be something left behind. Maybe a hidden file that I’m not seeing? Why else would it think its still installed and trying to recreate the tables?

Yes, but why would I still be getting database updates for your plugin, when I uninstalled it?

That doesn’t make sense to me.

Don’t think this is resolved btw. When I installed your app, what other aspects of wordpress did it change?

• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by Dubsy.

Can’t make a new post on the support forum, as it says I don’t have permission and there doesn’t appear to be an easy way to register? So, I’ve sent you an email. Cheers – Tina

I’m using child themes with this theme on two wordpress projects. I have five wordpress projects in total, three using other themes and child themes. I’m not a IT person, just someone who finds it fun to dable in code (self-taught) but this is what I set up below. I think this might be the old way… I’m not sure. I will probably have to check this myself in coming weeks.

Using my ftp client CoffeeCup Direct FTP
I created a new folder under themes called longform-child
I then created a new file in this folder called style.css

I then added this code (change to suit yourself)

/*
Theme Name: Longform_Child
Theme URI: https://tinadubinsky.com/themes/longform-child
Author: Tina Dubinsky
Author URI: https://tinadubinsky.com
Description: This is a child template for longform
Version: 1.1.0
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Text Domain: longform
Template: longform
Domain Path: /languages/
Tags: light, responsive-layout, two-columns, custom-header, full-width-template, post-formats, sticky-post, editor-style, custom-colors, threaded-comments, translation-ready
*/

@import url("../longform/style.css");

Then, to remove the SSBA code above you’ll need to copy the file single.php to your child theme directory. In the example below I’ve also commented out the reference to the aesop sharing plugin which is an additional paid feature of aesop.

Goto line: 36 and comment out the following lines of code (line 36 – 40 inclusive)

//if ( defined('BA_AESOPSOCIAL_ITEM_NAME') && BA_AESOPSOCIAL_ITEM_NAME == 'aesop-social' ) {
	//do_action('ase_addon_social_links');
 //} else {
 	//echo do_shortcode( '[ssba]' );
 //}

If you’re like me and there’s only a single author on the site, you may also want to comment out the reference to the author meta (lines 42-44 inclusive)

//if ( get_the_author_meta( 'description' ) ) :
      //get_template_part( 'author-bio' );
 //endif;

I hope this helps somewhat. (also hoping I’ve used the tags in this post correctly)

Have a happy new year.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Dubsy. Reason: adding line numbers

[ssba] is a short code for the plugin Simple Shared Buttons. So you can either install and use that plugin or remove it by altering a child theme as suggested above by swekarl.

Reverting back to your previous update fixed the formatting issues I encountered, but it doesn’t fix the need to update at some stage….

Here’s a link to my homepage so you can see what it looks like before I updated the plugin: https://u-foria.com

When I updated it looked awful – the three gallery images were all to the left and no longer the same size or spaced evenly and there was lots of white space between components (where I as I had changed this through my child CSS). Also as mentioned above the video as seen on this page: https://u-foria.com/chapter-one/vr-lounge/robot-reboot/ Was no longer 100%. but just the normal size …

Perhaps something went wrong with the style sheets or styling in your last update?

[Please note my site is a work in progress for an online writing assignment due in for my Master’s in just over a week, so if you follow the story line hypertext links some pages will be incomplete and the registration process is not fully set up. (Normally I’d be doing this in maintenance mode but we’re currently getting feedback in this week’s tutorial prior to submission, so I have to make it public. Hence, I felt devasted after updating your plugin to find all the nice formatting gone.) My goal is to complete this project in 2017, once marking and results are published.]

There are other issues to – video components are no longer 100% on pages, some images are now looking severely stretched and this php error has appeared:

[27-Oct-2016 01:03:59 UTC] PHP Warning: (my path)/wp-content/plugins/aesop-story-engine/admin/includes/components/component-gallery.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in (my path)/wp-content/plugins/aesop-story-engine/admin/class-aesop-core-admin.php on line 51

Some custom styling that I had done as well in my child CSS no longer appears to be working with AESOP features…

I’m hoping rolling back will fix all the issues for me, I need it working so I can submit my website as part of a university assignment next week.

I’ve seen this error too

I noticed the last update for Longform was on the 28 June. I’m still experiencing this issue and have only recently installed Longform. Does this issue occur in the pro version as well?

Cheers Tina

PS: Thank you BMCCrain for the workaround.

I have read elsewhere (at a couple of different places), that it is not possible to use shortcodes with excerpts. I did try a few other suggestions I found from searches, but nothing has worked.

As a work around, I have started adding text to the excerpt field. I needed to turn this on first under screen options when in edit mode for a post. This field overrides the auto excerpt and allows me to keep the shortcode at the start of the post in the main text field.

Thanks for your help anyway, I appreciate your response.

Hi, I’ve added this to a child functions file but it is still stripping the drop cap from the excerpts.

I’m having the same issue.