JPAres1

Same problem here, same message… but I cannot get it to work!!!

Sorry that I am adding to this but things have changed and we are atill at a loss for what happened to the eemails. Here are our latest findings:

As you know, the registration emails going out from our site were working but then weren’t working. See previous email. Since then, we went into something we never before went into: Membership, Communications and created a test Welcome message. We registered as a new user and wouldn’t you know we received the registration activation email as that new user, the test Welcome message for the new user and the admin new user notification email. Then we deactivated the test Welcome message and went through the process again. It worked! We received two emails now (just like before the mysterious site-rendered email disappearance); the registration activation email as that new user and the admin new user notification email. We then completely deleted the test Welcome message so that the Membership, Communications was the same as before we started and again, we received the same two emails. Whatever did we reactivate?

So, for whatever reason, the emails seem to be working again. However, this is a huge concern to us. This could happen again and we would have no idea why the emails stopped working and why it suddenly reset itself. We have repeatedly read in our research of this matter that WordPress uses PHPMail Sendmail. It has been mentioned more than once that making the emails go SMTP is better and more stable. We are of the belief that this may be the core issue here. Can anyone give input on this and guide us in the right direction? Is there anyone out there that can explain to us what may have happened and is there something we need to hard code so that it doesn’t happen again?

Many thanks for your help and advice.

Thank you, ipstenu.

I appreciate everyone’s help and time on this.

Happy Holidays!

JPAres1

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@esmi Thank you. ??

@ipstenu I didn’t even see the Closing Posts yet. Guess I better check those to make sure I am being compliant with the site. Thank you.

Hi James,

Me again!

We have a rather extensive project in mind, WordPress based, and we need people that are interested in helping to develop and maintain this project as it evolves. Is that something you do? Would something like that be of interest to you?

If not, would you be interested in helping us build the plugins we need on a “per project” basis and would you also offer tech support for those plugins?

Thanks,

Jackie

OK, I downloaded it… will implement it sometime in the next couple of days. Thanks for keeping me posted!

I’ll let you know when I’ve done it. ??

Jackie

Yep. duking it out with them right now. I have backups too but I want them to restore it first. Haha! Such lessons in blogging I never expected. ??

Thanks for your response, James.

Thanks David.

What a wild ride this is… just for a lil ol’ blog! Good Lord! (I’m rolling my eyes now). I have been working this blog for three or four years and I never had problems until now.

I’ve printed out your instructions and resent you that email (just in case). Let me know if you get it… it’s from jackie at pillai consulting dot net.

I think in the future, if I see an update, I would probably be better served to download it myself and then upload it to the server through the ftp rather than letting the hosting company handle it. Apparently, they never did any updates since we started the blog, hence the issues that have arisen. At least if I do it myself, I can control what gets overwritten.

Then if I mess up, the only nincompoop would be me! Haha!

Thanks again for your help and unending patience!!!

Best regards,

Jackie

My hosting company did reinstall WordPress last night but they also reinstalled the wp-content. UGH!

Now I can no longer login because wordpress doesn’t recognize me.

I have a ticket in for them to call me today because they will need to revert it back to the way it was then. The only other option I can think of is to upload my backup copy of wp-content and see if that works.

Do you have any other suggestions?

Best regards,

Jackie

Hi David,
Sorry… maybe I ended up in your spam folder?

In any case, my hosting company reinstalled WordPress but they also reinstalled the wp-content. Brainiacs!

Now I can no longer login because wordpress doesn’t recognize me.

I have a ticket in for them to call me today because they will need to revert it back to the way it was then.

The other option is to upload my backup copy of wp-content and see if that works.

Do you have any other suggestions?

Best regards,

Jackie

No I was not able to accomplish that. I did as instructed but it does not produce results.

Actually my hosting company updated it at their end. I didn’t do it on my computer. We did that because a few of us work on it and it was a “central” location to store the program… or does that even matter?

Would it be better to install it on my computer and then upload to my “server”?

Does it allow me to pick and choose which files to overwrite then?

Is the process easy for a noob or should I just leave it to the hosting company again?

Sorry for all the questions.

OK, well that is a no-go too because I can’t Login to my WordPress administration menus since they don’t exist apparently. It just continues to direct to the same fatal error message.

Thanks James, I’ll try that.

This is truly becoming a nightmare. I am not a programmer, I don’t know PHP… All I want is to plug my little articles in and be blissfully ignorant. All this because I had to upgrade to the latest version and my theme was not supported. Then I have this lovely fellow that updated the theme but I can’t get into the dashboard to use it. ??

I’ll let you know if it works. I’ll have to go through the FTP as phpMyAdmin did not have an active_plugins row (naturally).

Thanks,

JPAres1

Hi David, Sent you an email as requested, but as you can see in my email, I am having a heck of a time with this lovely WordPress!

BTW, I forgot to add that the code for load.php =

(line 218)  function timer_stop( $display = 0, $precision = 3 ) { // if called like timer_stop(1), will echo $timetotal
	global $timestart, $timeend;
	$mtime = microtime();
	$mtime = explode( ' ', $mtime );
	$timeend = $mtime[1] + $mtime[0];
	$timetotal = $timeend - $timestart;
	$r = ( function_exists( 'number_format_i18n' ) ) ? number_format_i18n( $timetotal, $precision ) : number_format( $timetotal, $precision );
	if ( $display )
		echo $r;
	return $r;

Hope your day is going well,

Jackie

Thank you. Followed the instructions and got this message now instead of my blog:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare timer_stop() (previously declared in /home/thewils/public_html/blog/wp-includes/load.php:218) in /home/thewils/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 848

?? Am looking to see what to do now.