jgold723

Thank you.

DIVI suggested using Better Search and Replace, but that didn’t resolve the problem.

I’m now thinking of doing a manual S&R and reupload on the database, which I’ve outlined in a separate post.

Thank you very much!

Well, I guess it was. It’s a site I inherited and the client didn’t mention anything about it. I’m guessing it may have expired? I reinstalled with the free license and the scan went through OK.

Thank you. For the sake of anyone following this, I wasn’t able to find WP2Static. I did find Simply Static, which is still in the WP Repository but does not appear to work.

I ended up using Site Sucker, which seems to be a Mac version of HTTrack. It worked great.

Hmmmm, I’m stuck on this as well, I’ve downgraded my wordpress to 5.4 and php to 7.0. But still no luck. Simply Static runs (the grey wheel circles endlessly) but nothing is generated.

The Debug log gets as far as:

[2021-01-26 19:58:05] [class-ss-plugin.php:232] Received request to start generating a static archive
[2021-01-26 19:58:05] [class-ss-archive-creation-job.php:61] Starting a job; no job is presently running
[2021-01-26 19:58:05] [class-ss-archive-creation-job.php:62] Here’s our task list: setup, fetch_urls, create_zip_archive, wrapup
[2021-01-26 19:58:05] [class-ss-archive-creation-job.php:76] Pushing first task to queue: setup

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by jgold723.

It’s not an issue in the sense that we were able to replace the Youtube widget back into each sidebard and re add our videos.

However we still don’t know why the widget disappeared in the first place.

We didn’t try disabling CAS because we have other content in the custom sidebars which did not disappear and we didn’t want to risk losing that.

So, a mystery. If have any insights, or suggestions for troubleshooting, I’d appreciate it.

Is there any way to keep a record/document what is in each sidebar so that rebuilding can be made a little easier if necessary? Maybe a table in the WordPress database that can be exported?

Thank you. The hosting company did finally confirm that is was a security scan that had gone bad.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by jgold723.

Ah, good point. Thanks Tim.

Thanks Tim — I really appreciate your help. Turns out the issue was a missing file: /wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php. How that one core file went missing is a bit of a mystery right now, but at least that resolved it.

Thank you. The problem appears to be linked to the disappearance of the /wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php which was missing from all of my WordPress sites. I’m not sure how this happened, but I’m exploring it with the hosting company.

A quick follow up — it appears this file was deleted from all of my accounts on my host. I’m discussing this with them. If for some reason this might have been a WordPress issue (I’m not thinking it is), I’d love to know just so I can be aware of it.

Interesting.

WP_DEBUG with the log function enabled indicated a second file was missing: /wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php

Replacing that seems to have fixed the problem.

Thanks so much for the help.

I’m curious as to how/why that one file would go missing, but I’ll put that in a separate post.

Thanks — I’ll check these. It’s not GoDaddy and the file is present. I do have Wordfence installed — is that what you mean by a Firewall, or are you referring to something on my local machine?

OK, I checked further and I think I see the problem, but I’m not sure what’s causing it. When I check the developer console while attempting to add a menu item I see this error: Failed to load /wp-admin/admin-ajax_s resource: the server responded with a status of 500.

I’m guessing I need to resolve this with the hosting company? Can someone explain what might be happening here?

Thanks Tim. I can check, but I’m not sure what the permissions should be. I did check the link you provided, but I didn’t see a definitive list of permissions to check against. I’m also noticing this behavior in other sites in different functions (for example, trying to modify a block of content using WPBakery in a separate site.