Fred Marvila

Thanks a lot wfalaa ??

I started seeing some unusual behaviors as to options of plugins not being saved, even though WP sent a message that it was saved and the same with activation and deactivation of plugins, that is, I deactivated a plugin, wordpress said it was deactivated, but the list still showed it activated.

After a few hours trying to troubleshoot this, I came to the Redis cache and as soon as I disabled the cache through the Redir Object Cache. THe plugin has been upgraded a couple of days back, but I’m not sure that had anything to do with it.

ANyway, I only came to this because my server was experiencing some weird CPU spikes and I went after what was causing it, which had something to do with the DB. Looks like Redis was the cause.

After that, no more error messages about Wordfence’s table. It was probably cached and never cleared by Redis.

Thanks again,
Fred Marvila
Sundaycooks

Hi. Thank you very much for the prompt reply.

Yeah, the theme is a bit old and I’ve already found several things not working anymore on it. Guess you found another one :/

I’ll take care of it and thanks a lot once again!

As Christopher mentioned, restarting Apache solved the issue. Looks like the APC cache kept the old version of the PHP files in memory. After the Apache restart, I was able to Activate the plugin again ??

I haven’t changed anything on the blog, so I guess it is still happening. Once the update is done, I’ll update it and check once in a while for the issue.

btw, thanks for the update of the plugin!

I’m still on the analisys after I deleted the saved posts.

Jean, one thing I can think as an improvement on the plugin is that it checks the existance a given URL on the saved posts list of the plugin (I am using 50 to display and 200 saved). If it finds, it will remove the oldest and save the “new” one.

This way the old one will not appear as duplicate and the new one will appear on the top. If we assume the post is being duplicated due to reposting/updating/deleting/recreating, that makes sense to keep it on the top of the list as a new post. Well, at least for me ??

Cheers,
Fred Marvila

Same thing here and I have also deleted everything :/ let’s see how it goes. I was using the WP-Super Cache plugin, so I decided to disable it to test and see if it had anything to do with the issue.

Same here :/

Just to let you know I did some more tests with other WP versions and found that the issue is caused by the change on the WP.COM export file. It has changed a few weeks back (2 or 3 weeks now) and I believe the WP importer plug-in is not prepared for the changes as it was updated almost 200 days ago.

I was lucky to have an older export file and I was able to successfully import the file and all categories and tags were linked to the corresponding posts. (ok, some categories and tags were duplicated but that is not a big deal).

The main differences I found on tags and categories are shown below:

OLD export file:

<category domain="tag"><![CDATA[salt lake]]></category>
<category domain="tag" nicename="salt-lake"><![CDATA[salt lake]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[Salt Lake City]]></category>
<category domain="category" nicename="salt-lake-city"><![CDATA[Salt Lake City]]></category>

===========

NEW export file

<category domain="post_tag" nicename="sevilla"><![CDATA[sevilla]]></category>
<category domain="category" nicename="sevilla-espanha"><![CDATA[Sevilla]]></category>

After LOTS of tries, I found the solution. The new export file needs to be set to the following on the above example:

<category domain="tag"><![CDATA[sevilla]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[Sevilla]]></category>

Removed the “nicename” and “domain” for the category, removed “nicename” from the tag and changed the “domain” to “tag” on the tag as well.

With that I was able to import the posts and link them to the categories and tags.

I hope the WordPress Importer is fixed soon.