Eric Nemchik

The 3.8.2 update just took 3 of my sites offline while trying to update through the built in wordpress updater. I deleted the /jetpack/ directory from all 3 and uploaded a fresh copy from www.ads-software.com . I also had to manually activate, then deactivate, and then reactivate the plugin after reuploading it in order to get jetpack to reconnect. Prior to doing all of this I had the same invalid_client message everyone else is mentioning.

Wow, I’m quite surprised! I’ll follow that issue on github and see if I can make sense of the code and try and contribute if I have the time!

You mentioned a roadmap, is that publicly viewable?

Ok, yeah I guess I’m going to disable the protection module, but at least now I know what’s up. I thought based on the description it was doing something other than login math.

Maybe for the future the production module could be made to also handle registrations? I noticed however that some plugins alter the registration process (like Buddy press) and that requires special attention to keep the login prompt for something like the math question from the protection module. Not sure I can think of many others.

Does the protection module display the math problem on the comments form? If not they might be another good place to have it (and using the same logic about blacklisted IPS to determine if it needs to be shown sounds great).

Another idea (not really expecting this one to catch traction) would be to have the protection module offer the option to use Google’s captchas (like the nocaptcha and recaptcha) if configured. If this were available through the protection module though, me might prefer to use the blacklist in conjunction to determine when to display the nocaptcha, but I would actually want to ignore the blacklist and always show the nocaptcha, and there’s already separate plugins for what I want, so the only reason for it to be included in the protection module is to keep jetpack a one-stop-shop for all the goods (which it already does an amazing job of by the way).

I am moving this topic to github as an issue https://github.com/justintadlock/members/issues/63

To be more specific, https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordpress-access-control/ this is the plugin, and just looking at the php code it seems like it’s replacing the menu with a custom menu that handles displaying only the items a particular viewer should have access to. I didn’t read into it too much, but that’s my impression of first glance.

Hmm, well I re-enabled the protection module and I’m no longer seeing the math question at login. I have not whitelisted my IP, but it’s possible I may have changed another setting somewhere or installed/removed another plugin that could have been interfering with communication to the API. I typically use iThemes security with the XML-RPC option set to Only Disable Trackbacks/Pingbacks because the notes on this mention Jetpack should remain functional. This is the setup/config I am currently using and no longer seeing the math question at login.

Anyway, thank you for your response, what you said makes perfect sense. I would still be interested in knowing a few things;

1) Can you describe in a bit more detail what the protect module does other than add a math question to the login (and comment areas)? I read the description of the module and it seems the math question isn’t the main focus of the module, but it’s not really sinking into my brain what is actually happening when the module is active.

2) Would you consider an option for the protection module to be enabled but allow the math questions to be disabled? As I mentioned in my original post I have opted to use a Google nocaptcha plugin for logins/registrations, and I’m using Disqus for comments, so for me the math problem is redundant to having the nocaptcha.

Commenting out the code worked for me also.
For me the file was located here;
/wp-content/plugins/preserved-html-editor-markup-plus/preserved_markup_plus.php
The code needing to be commented is on line 327-330. To comment the code, I added /* on line 326 and */ on line 331. So in the end my code from line 326-331 looks like this;

/*
        add_filter('the_editor_content', array(
            'MP_WP_Preserved_Markup',
            'fix_wysiwyg_content'
        ), 1);
*/

Alternatively you can remove the whole block of code from the file to accomplish the same thing. Commenting it out just means it is ignored.

Hopefully once the dev updates the plugin this issue will be fixed and the code will be replaced anyway.

I can also confirm I am having issues with this plugin and WP4.3.
Unfortunately disabling the plugin breaks many of my pages, but leaving the plugin enabled leaves me almost unable to edit pages.

I have found the visual editor displays the html code, and the text editor displays the html encoded html code (basically replacing all the <> with <> ). If I copy the text from the visual editor, paste it into the text editor, and then switch back to the visual editor, this fixes the issue until the next time load the editor for that page (then the issue repeats).

found the solution
had to go over to the user tab in Active Directory Integration Settings and set the account suffix. after i did this everything works as expected.

I’m having the same issue ??