mhartste

This is an excellent general suggestion, and I just want to say I’d like to see this also.

One of the features I’d like to have on my site, which Give doesn’t support very well, is the ability to make a ‘Tribute’ gift. This could be a donation In Memory of someone. A general text box would be very useful in us supporting this feature.

Thanks,

Mike

This is awesome, Matt!

Your reply was very prompt. And I appreciate that even though Give doesn’t support this capability now, you provided a solution which was easy to implement, well designed, and worked first time. Good job, and thanks!!!

Mike

Thanks again, naa896, for your quick reply and your help trying to get this to work.

I tried port 443 with both TLS and SSL, but the test email gets this error:

Connection: opening to smtp.gmail.com:443, timeout=300, options=array ( ‘ssl’ => array ( ‘verify_peer’ => false, ‘verify_peer_name’ => false, ‘allow_self_signed’ => true, ),)
SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Operation now in progress (115)
SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting

The Postman SMTP plugin does successfully send mail using OAuth 2.0 and port 443 (but it has other issues) so I know my GoDaddy server is able to send external emails.

Does that give you any indication of what the problem is? Do you have any suggestions on what to try next?

Thanks,

Mike

Hi,

Are you still supporting the Postman SMTP plugin, or has it been abandoned?

Thanks,

Mike

Thanks, naa896, for your quick reply.

I found some useful info from the Postman SMTP plugin that may be relevant. I think it is testing my system and it says that SMTP https://www.googleapis.com:25, https://www.googleapis.com:465, and https://www.googleapis.com:587 are Closed, but the Gmail API https://www.googleapis.com:443 is Open.

Also, here is the info from my Server Info tab:

OS: Linux (my URL removed) 2.6.32-604.30.3.lve1.3.63.el6.nfsfixes.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 26 11:56:49 MST 2015 x86_64
PHP version: 5.6.27
WordPress version: 4.6.1
WordPress multisite: No
openssl: Available
allow_url_fopen: Enabled
stream_socket_client: Available
fsockopen: Available
cURL: Available
cURL Version: 7.45.0, OpenSSL/1.0.1e

I am on a hosted GoDaddy server. Since ports 587, 465, and 25 are closed, does that mean your plugin cannot work? Do you support port 443?

Thanks,

Mike

Thanks for your reply, naa986.

But I am able to use OAuth 2.0 with the Postman SMTP plugin on port 465, so I know that works. And I spoke with GoDaddy support and they said they do not block outgoing SMTP emails.

Do you know why the test email would fail? Is there some way to get more info?

Thanks!

Mike

Ok, I got the Grant Permission button. I went to the Revoke Access tab, then Delete Access Key. I returned to General and my SMTP Status was Not Connected. I then had the Grant Permission button available, and when I clicked it my SMTP Status changed to Connected.

Unfortunately, after granting permission, my test email failed with an 111 error. I have opened a new ticket for that.

Mike

Me too. I just installed and activated Gmail SMTP Version 1.0.6. After setting up the Gmail credentials and entering all the info on the Settings / General page I saved the changes but no Grant Permission button appeared. I tried to test the email anyway but it gets a fatal error.

Please advise!

Thanks,

Mike

Hi Bernie –

I found that the Better Notifications for WordPress plugin works well.

Mike

Hi Sean – are you still supporting your plugin, or is it now abandoned?

Thanks,

Mike

There’s a huge need for a tool to migrate from Staging to the Live Production site. Erik did a great job describing this need.

But this is a very hard problem to do correctly. Here’s the challenge. Let’s say you copy from Live to Staging on day 1. You now have all your current user data on the Staging site. Then you take 2 weeks to add your enhancements to the Staging site, to test it, and to have some other people test it as well. During this 2 week period your users are making further changes to the Live site, but this additional data is not in your Staging site.

So you can’t simply pull your entire WP environment from Staging to Live or you will lose all the user data added during that 2 week period. You need to move the meta data but not the user data.

Many plugins seem to intermingle their user data with their meta data in some tables. This means there is no way that Rene or any other plugin author could provide a tool that works in all cases since he isn’t aware of the internal data structures of every single plugin.

If anyone is aware of a good solution to this please let us know. It seems like a major deficiency of the WP ecosystem.

Thanks,

Mike

I’d like this as well, and I think lots of people need this.

In the Settings -> General page you have a Purpose field. I would like to override this in the shortcode, i.e. [paypal_donation_button purpose=”In Memory of Bill”].

Also, on the Donation List, the Purpose needs to be displayed. Ideally I’d like to list donations grouped by Purpose.

Then I can have many donation pages, each with a different Purpose, which is important to me for tracking.

This would make your plugin much more usable.

Thanks!

Mike

Thanks, Ex.Mi, for your quick response.

I solved the problem. I unzipped the WordPress files incorrectly. I opened the zip file and copied everything to the www subdirectory. This didn’t work right, it didn’t copy over the proper subfolder structure. Instead, I used Windows Explorer to show the zip file structure and I copied from there.

Now it’s working!

Thanks,

Mike