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I was having this same problem. And it wasn’t the permalink structure. The file wp-comments-post.php was missing from the server. Someone must have deleted it. Once I put a new copy there, everything is fine.

Yup, the very next day I was getting spam email from them. Even though their install process PROMISED they would not use my email for anything other than registration. In other words, they lied.

This plugin should be taken off www.ads-software.com. The whole purpose of having a central, curated plugin repository is to keep out the spammers. This module might not have spam code (we don’t know if it does or not), but it does have a scheme for spamming people.

We have a site where we get an email whenever a comment is approved, but not when the email originally goes into the queue for moderation.

Also 2.8.4

I was running version 2.2.1.b. I believe I did download the plugin from www.ads-software.com, since I now always download plugins from www.ads-software.com (and now themes too), and not from author websites (for this exact reason) — but honestly, I can’t be 100% sure. Perhaps I made a mistake and got it from Alakhnor’s site.

I also don’t remember what the hacked code looked like — or rather, I’m getting the details of this mess mixed up with the details of another site that got hacked around the same time. On this other site, spam robots broke into an old WP installation (2.3 I believe) and hacked the theme with link spam. I spent hours fixing that other site the same week this one broke, and all the details are mixed together in my head. If I had realized this plugin had turned to malware, I would have taken notes as I went along —?and I’d have more details. A las, I guess we should all always be taking notes.

If you are already using this plugin, I would just make sure to keep great backups of everything?— especially your database. Hopefully, you won’t have any trouble. But if you do have mysterious problems, remember it could be this plugin. My first sign of trouble came when other plugins were being disrupted.

Perhaps I should modify my warning to say if you have not used this plugin, and are looking for something like this, use WP Post Thumbnail instead.
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wp-post-thumbnail/
Not only will using WP Post Thumbnail help you avoid the malware, but I expect Stanley Yeoh will be updating and maintaining his plugin, while Post Thumb Revisited has not been updated in almost a year. It’s alway better to use a plugin that’s being actively maintained over one that is not.

Good luck!

Ah, the information I needed is on the developer’s blog, in the comments:
https://www.seoadsensethemes.com/wp-post-thumbnail-wordpress-plugin/

“Paul” on a Jan 6 comment said:

WP 2.7 working…

I was able to get the plugin to work in WP 2.7 by deleting the wppt_* options directly from the database. That is to say:

1.) Use something like “phpmyadmin” to connect directly to your database server.

2.) Navigate to the database for your installation and find the “options” table.

3.) That table has a hundred or so entries. You can just “Browse” through the table for the 2 or 3 that begin with “wppt_”[something]. Or (if you have thousands of entries) you could do a Search and put in “option_name like ‘wppt_%’” as your search criteria.

4.) Delete those options that begin with “wppt_”.

After I did this, the next time I tried to upload an image with wppt it worked just fine.

[I noticed that even after disabling the plugin and re-enabling it, my wppt options in the database were still those from an earlier installation. My suspicion was that maybe WP changed the way it stores array data in going from WP 2.6 to 2.7? And that disabling the WPPT plugin apparently doesn’t erase the option arrays stored in the database? I don’t know… but this worked for me :->]

I’m having this problem too. I’d like to:

fixed it by emptying wppt_general_options in the prefix_options tabl

as Repsaj_Nav suggested, but I can’t find the wppt_general_options. Or anything marked wppt, or anything that looks like it goes with this plugin. I’m assuming I could get to it using PHPMyAdmin, cracking open the database.

What am I missing? i’d appreciate any specifics!

Oh, you posted your solution in a new ticket. It’s here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/181795?replies=1

I see you figured this out. What did you do?