jrdub

Andy,

Speaking as a developer, no matter how valid your reasons for refactoring the Flash method(s), it will be lost on the average user who just sees a white rectangle where their stats used to be and hears you telling them they have to wade through all their plugins and theme code (hundreds of files in my case) to solve a problem that wasn’t there before they “upgraded”.

Given the popularity of Stats, your audience is hardly limited to geeky professionals such as myself who can follow arcane explanations about the “Unicode BOM”. They include people who know just enough to be dangerous downloading stock templates and plugin files that very likely have at least one page of code with an extra line or two through no fault of their own and no realistic recourse.

For the record, I found the offending file on my client’s site that had an extra line at the end. But not before spending 2+ hours.

Andy,

If you revert to version 1.4 of Stats, the Flash movie runs fine, at least it did for me in two separate cases. So, it seems to be something in the plugin file itself. If as you suggest, it was a misplaced (or invisible?) character in another file affecting Flash output, the movie wouldn’t appear regardless of which version I was running.

Since Unicode is the default character set for WordPress (see wp-config-sample.php), it wouldn’t make much sense to save files as something else in most cases.

@ithinkitsnice

Poor choice of words. Agreed: it’s a workaround. Definitely needs to be fixed.

**RESOLVED?

Okay, I figured out that by reverting to the last version of the plugin, 1.4, it works again. I have officially confirmed on two separate WP installations (one is 2.8 and the other is 2.8.2) that the problem is resolved by restoring version 1.4. Seems like 1.5 and WP 2.8 don’t agree. I went so far as disabling all plugins except that and using the default theme and that did not resolve the issue. It’s not a conflicting plugin or customization of the core (I have none). 1.5 works on WP 2.7 (also confirmed in two separate installations). It does not work on 2.8.

Same problem here: I can access all stats except flash movie. When I right click on it, it says “Movie not loaded”. It does this on both Safari and Firefox on Mac 10.5 and also in Windows XP IE7. It happened when I upgraded from 2.7 to 2.8.2 yesterday.

Incidentally, I tried White Shadow’s Cache Cleaner plugin, the code from which you had rolled into the latest version (0.8.4), and it works just as advertised. Unfortunately, Cache Cleaner only cleans out the Super Cache and not WP-Cache entries.

I should add that I’ve already tried the suggestion above about error logging the prune_super_cache() function. I set it to email me. And the only time it does is when I either empty the cache myself or I deactivate the plugin. In other words, the pruning function isn’t running unless I made it run. I know the plugin is using WP’s cron API, but for some reason, it doesn’t seem to be working.

Same problem here on 2.3.3. It will not take out the garbage, no matter what deletion setting I choose. I’ve even gone so far as to set the entire cache directory to 777. But I know the plugin can write to the directories because it’s making new cache entries all the time. And on mine, it won’t delete standard WP-Cache files either. So they all just pile up. What’s worse is Super Cache will just serve up the old files no matter what I set the expiration time to. It requires me to manually empty the cache. Thoughts?