john-biddle

No change, I’m sorry to report. Still gets stuck on Updraft Plus (37 of 44) and still won’t run at all on my other site.

I tried your updated version. When it works at all it seems to work well. It found quite a few things that should be updated in several plugins on a small site of mine with 44 plugins (35 active). It worked in every configuration I tried it in, but sometimes I had to try it several times before it would work at all. I’d hit the scan button and get a spinner for a second or two, then nothing. Other tries worked properly. Sometimes it would get stuck on Updraft Plus version 1.14.2. I’m now on WP 4.9.2 and GeneratePress 2.0.2.

On my other site with far more plugins (dev site, most plugins inactive) it never worked at all. I can’t even get a spinner, on any combo of PHP Version and either all plugins or just active ones. You’re not there yet.

I like the idea of a plugin like this, that’s why when you mentioned it I loaded it up on my staging site and checked it out. But until it can tell a good use of a powerful coding technique from a bad one, it generates way too much heat for the amount of light it provides.

I’ll keep an eye out for this and/or other plugins that can do more, but as for this one at this time, I’m gonna take a pass.

Thanks for your comments.

@feralreason Your caution may be justified, but I’d need a lot more than this to keep me from using a plugin that I thought was providing value I could get otherwise.

Here are a few examples of some major plugins that I ran against Plugin Inspector:

Autoptimize	               9	27
EWWW Image Optimizer	       7	50
Gravity Forms	              18	65
iThemes Security Pro	      28	45
JetPack	                      63	111
PHP Compatibility Checker     23	28
Plugin Inspector	       2	4
Pods	                      22	79
SearchWP	              15	37
Ultimate Member	              22	37
wpDataTables	              19	38
Yoast Premium	              24	31

Even Plugin Inspector isn’t perfect, though it does use the suspect coding techniques less often.

I’m not trying to defend PHP Compatibility Checker, but I think it’s important to be careful not to paint plugins as suspect based on so little evidence.

@feralreason, Far be it from me to defend these guys, but the “unsafe” code reported by Plugin Inspector is not necessarily unsafe, it just highlights code which COULD BE used maliciously. The first time I ran it was on PHP Compatibility Checker and the results were a little scary. I then ran it on a whole lot of other plugins with sterling reputations and got similar results.

This could be a problem but I’m not enough of a coder to know one way or the other. Unless you know something specific FeralReason, I think you might be worried a bit too much.

I too had this problem. It worked on one site, with WP 4.9.1 and PHP 7.1. There were 38 active plugins & no inactive. I then tried it on another site, this one a staging site, also with WP 4.9.1, PHP 7.1 and 35 active plugins. There were also 125 inactive plugins. Each site had 1 must-use and 1 drop-in plugin, the same ones.

Like janomi, it just doesn’t run. When I click on scan, the spinner starts up, but disappears after a few seconds and nothing happens after that. I let it run 8 hours with no result. I ran it against active plugins only and against all plugins, but got the same result.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by john-biddle. Reason: additional clarification info

Yes, that’s it. Here’s the message:

“An external object cache is in use so Transient Cleaner is not required. Please disable the plugin!”

I’m using the plugin Dobby on my staging site to control those admin messages and didn’t see this one until this morning. I came here to advise you, but you’d already figured it out.

@illuminice I do not have that line in my wp-config, FYI.

Sure:

https://staging1.lonewolfleagues.com/wp-admin/tools.php?page=tc-options

No, I do not see that option under Tools, Just the Settings under the activated plugin itself where I get the error message.

I did not get any errors when I activated the plugin. I am running this plugin in my staging site on SiteGround where I test things. It’s an auto-setup by SiteGround and I don’t know all of the things they do which could conceivably screw up the plugin, but I can tell you that n this install I have 42 active plugins and 102 inactive, which I turn on and off as I try things out. Nothing else has been a problem so far, that I know of. I do keep WP and all plugins in this staging area current.

OK, here are 5 images captured as I continue to scroll down:

1) https://www.screencast.com/t/E7FgW7dB
2) https://www.screencast.com/t/anH5cxK7
3) https://www.screencast.com/t/gpIURM9rqf
4) https://www.screencast.com/t/qJ2FTI77HDUZ
5) https://www.screencast.com/t/EWroDKxFte

#1 starts out with home page
#2 Featured Image of Section 1 coming into view
#3 Featured Image of Section 1 is fully in place and text of that section begins to scroll up, but NOT over the Featured Image, but it brings the background from the home page with it.
#4 Featured Image of section 2 is scrolling into view, covering the non-moving background of the home page. The text of section 1 continues to scroll up.
#5 Featured Image from section 2 is firmly in place and no longer scrolling as the text from section 2 is scrolling up. But it’s NOT scrolling over the featured image of section 2, it’s unveiling the background from the home page again.

And it keeps going like this. What I am looking to do is scroll the text from each section up and over top of the featured image for that section. Then, when the text section is complete move on to the featured image of the next one.

I hope this makes it more clear. And I appreciate your working with me on this.

OK, I spoke too soon. Your code does indeed make the background of the section transparent, and as soon as I saw that I stopped looking, thinking my problem was solved. I was in a rush to see this but was in the middle of something so only gave it a quick glance.

But each section that now has a transparent background scrolls up over another copy of the topmost image on the page. What I’m looking for is for each section with the transparent background to scroll up over the image that precedes it, the one that belongs to that section.

So I’d get image 1 and text from section 1 which scrolls up over it. As section 1 text completes, image 2 comes scrolling into position. Then the text in section 2 would scroll up over image 2 and eventually when you reach the bottom of the text, image 3 starts to scroll into place, etc.

Any ideas?

OK, I now see the Blackhole item in the admin menu. Didn’t look there since you had the settings available from the Plugins page. Usually, plugins do one or the other.

Thanks for the quick response.

Thank-you so much, this was exactly what I wanted.

I’ve spent quite a bit of time using the Chrome Developer tools on this and am making no progress. I can change the background color to anything but transparent (none doesn’t work either). I’m stumped. Maybe one of you CSS gurus can assist. Or maybe this is a javascript issue? I see lots of js in there.

Is there a way to make these text panels have a transparent background, so that as the user scrolls the panel up, only the text appears to move, since there would only be an invisible background?