miotracosa

I have my own server and WP installation and I cannot exceed 15 items total (main or sub) either in my menu. What gives?

Hi hakre, I was about to ask where the spam was, but then I scrolled own and saw the big “Please think about a donation” section. Wow! Ye, I agree, this crosses a line. If all of my plug-ins did this the dashboard would be a mess.

I like this plug-in, so I would like to see the author remove this dashboard message before the plug-in gets too much bad PR for this (or gets pulled from WP’s repository). I actually do donate to all of the plugins that I find useful and don’t appreciate messages like these on my dashboard.

Just to continue my one-way conversation here…

I think I have it all configured and working/looking just the way I like now. You can have a look by visiting my test grounds at https://www.hairextensionsreviews.com/. Feel free to leave a comment and try it out, if you are curious about this plugin or my tweaks to it. I will approve it within 24 hours and then you should be able to get your email updates.

OK, I think I fixed my issue without removing any functionality. I also made it compatible with my theme.

Code changes for Subscription Manager fix:

Original code line from “manage_link” function:

$link = add_query_arg('ref', rawurlencode('https://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . attribute_escape($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])), $link);

MODIFIED code line from “manage_link” function:

$link = add_query_arg('ref', rawurlencode(attribute_escape($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])), $link);

In order to make this plugin compatible with my theme (after checking the option for “Use custom style for Subscription Manager”) I had to replace the first <div class="wrap"> of the Subscription Manager HTML code with <div id="content">. Also I had to take is closing </div> tag and move it below the closing </div> tag of the “Adavanced Options section:

an excerpt

</fieldset>

			<?php } ?>
	<?php } //end if not in do not mail ?>

	</div> <!-- class="wrap" -->

	</div> <!-- id="content" -->

	<?php if ( $sg_subscribe->standalone ) : ?>
	<?php if ( !$sg_subscribe->use_wp_style ) :
	echo $sg_subscribe->after_manager;

I need to test this more, but this appears to have corrected my problems. Any comments would be appreciated.

I figured out that the ref variable is used to provide a link in the Subscription Manager that takes the user back to the post they were viewing previously.

Anyway, since my problems are not limited to this version of the plugin I am going to stop commenting on this thread/topic. If you want to follow the progress of this issue please go to:

Subscribe to Comments Works, Subscription Manager Does NOT (2.8.6)

Thanks.

I didn’t think of any valuable reason to retain the “ref” query argument / variable in the Subscription Manager and no one spoke up here or in the other topic. So I went in and just commented-out the following line in the “manage_link” function of the plugin:

//$link = add_query_arg('ref', rawurlencode('https://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . attribute_escape($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])), $link);

After I did this, the Subscription Manager URLs listed on the posting worked for me; for both my test user and for the article author/site administrator.

I would like to declare success, but I later discovered the purpose of the “ref” variable. It feeds the “Return to the page you were viewing” URL on the Subscription Manager. It would seem that the value expected here is the part of the URL following the “https://website.com/” portion, like this (https://www.hairextensionsreviews.com/?wp-subscription-manager=1&email=echo4dr%40yahoo.com&key=0d21c1739aa7eabff8221b7605a26931&ref=articles%2Fgeneral-articles%2Fwhat-is-hand-tied-hair%2Fcomment-page-1%2F). Perhaps, the culprit is one of the following:

• my site’s permalink configuration is not standard
• WP 2.8.x does something different such that it feeds this plugin a permalink different than is expected
• WP 2.8.x variables differ slightly so that it prevents the plugin from parsing the permalink properly

I will dig on this more, but I wanted to share this for now, hoping that someone might have some input.

I guess I am really discussing this issue is two places now. Here is what I just posted on the other forum topic:

I just dug some more on this issue and I think I know what the problem is. My “Manage Your Subscriptions” URL comes over like this:

https://www.hairextensionsreviews.com/?wp-subscription-manager=1&email=echo4dr%40yahoo.com&key=0d21c1739aa7eabff8221b7605a26931&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hairextensionsreviews.com%2Farticles%2Fgeneral-articles%2Fwhat-is-hand-tied-hair%2Fcomment-page-1%2F

If I chop off the &ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hairextensionsreviews.com%2Farticles%2Fgeneral-articles%2Fwhat-is-hand-tied-hair%2Fcomment-page-1%2F part of the string then the URL is good.

This also is true of the URL made available to the author, which is:
https://www.hairextensionsreviews.com/?wp-subscription-manager=1&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hairextensionsreviews.com. If I access this I get nothing, but if I take off the &ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hairextensionsreviews.com string then it works just fine. Its ugly, but it works.

So…. what is the point of that “ref” variable? Removing it seems to fix things considerably. Does anyone else have trouble with this? Do theirs look differently? I am very curious before I start creating my own “new version” of this plug-in.

Thanks!

I just dug some more on this issue and I think I know what the problem is. My “Manage Your Subscriptions” URL comes over like this:

https://www.hairextensionsreviews.com/?wp-subscription-manager=1&email=echo4dr%40yahoo.com&key=0d21c1739aa7eabff8221b7605a26931&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hairextensionsreviews.com%2Farticles%2Fgeneral-articles%2Fwhat-is-hand-tied-hair%2Fcomment-page-1%2F

If I chop off the &ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hairextensionsreviews.com%2Farticles%2Fgeneral-articles%2Fwhat-is-hand-tied-hair%2Fcomment-page-1%2F part of the string then the URL is good.

This also is true of the URL made available to the author, which is:
https://www.hairextensionsreviews.com/?wp-subscription-manager=1&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hairextensionsreviews.com. If I access this I get nothing, but if I take off the &ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hairextensionsreviews.com string then it works just fine. Its ugly, but it works.

So…. what is the point of that “ref” variable? Removing it seems to fix things considerably. Does anyone else have trouble with this? Do theirs look differently? I am very curious before I start creating my own “new version” of this plug-in.

Thanks!

Hi neononcon, ok, I was lost, yes, I do have a “subscribe to comments” link in the settings section. I did not notice it there. I guess I have been pampered by my other plugins which have had a link on the plug summary page to the settings. Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, nothing there seems to help my issues.

Strange thing for me is the both the “old” and the “new update” version of the plugin perform the exact same for me. Both send email, but the Subscription Manager is totally un-functional. Without this tool I don’t think I can ask visitors to sign up for updates via email. I don’t want to have to administer their subscriptions for them.

Thanks for updating this one. I am really looking forward to using it. I uploaded it to a test website I use and I had partial success and a few issues.

(1)I uploaded the plug-in and activated it, but I see no “Settings”, “Options”, “Configuration Panel”. Shouldn’t there be something there? I recall a mention in the code or in the document.

(2)I am known to not see something that is obviously there. Having said this, I could not find anywhere a link to the Subscription Manager. After receiving my first test subscription message I received the link to it: https://www.mywebsite.com/?wp-subscription-manager, I think. Is that it?

(3)On my test subscriber browser session (managing with FireFox and testign with Internet Explorer) I have the text and link “You are subscribed to this entry. Manage your subscriptions.” However, when I click on this I am put on the site’s homepage.

(4)By the way, when I placed the plug-in linked above (https://www.w3b.it/download/subscribe-to-comments_213.zip) on my WordPress site I noticed the version there says “Version 2.1.2”. I assume this is just an oversight on updating the version number in the code and not that the zip contains the older version.

(Just a note)A very small improvement to add to the next version would be to spell “followup” correctly as “follow-up” in the text “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail“.

I am using WordPress 2.8.6 now. I also tested on a different site using 2.8.5 and the results were the same. Please help. I hope I am just missing something obvious and embarrassing.

OK, I think this is resolved. I found these two related topics:

“the_content” displays nothing after upgrading

Upgraded – title shows, but not content

From there I started deactivating plug-ins. After some flipping on and off I narrowed my focus down to one problem plug-in “alinks” (). Yep, this was an oldie but goodie. Apparently, it caused me trouble. Truth is, that I never put much work into it.

Also, you may recall that I said my other sites were working just fine, well, they didn’t have “alinks” plugin installed. I guess I should have compared them more closely before.

Thanks for your help apljdi!!!

I did it! I followed each step and I felt victorious right up until I hit my homepage. I quickly activate my plug-ins and became immediately depressed. No change.

Changed the theme. No change.

So now, the debugger in me says it has to be a database issue. So I before I get drastic I started removing pages and comments left after the last known good day. No change.

Again, when in the administrative tools I see nothing out of the ordinary at all. Perhaps I need to search some more.

Still thinking about this… if I change the template and the issue persists would this not point to problems in the WordPress functions stored on my website?

At this point, I am thinking to backup the site and then replace all of the files with files from another website that is not experiencing the issue and is using the same version of WordPress. Specifically I am thinking of replacing the following directories:

wp-admin
wp-content
wp-includes

Woudl there be any problem with doing this?

Wow, sorry I got so busy and was not able to get back to this.

I commented out “the_content” function and suddenly everything else works, the sidebar, the footer.

<?php /*the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;');*/ ?>

I actually have another website that uses the same theme files. I’m comparing them and I haven’t seen anything. This is driving me crazy!

I’m not sure what to think. Do you think that my core WP functions have been compromised?

Hi! Thanks for your idea.

I tried this and it did not change the behavior at all. Strangely though I noticed that the preview right before you change it still looks like the current theme although the text in the top-right corner identifies the new theme I am applying.

The web address is: https://www.truefatherhood.org/

I really appreciate any advice. Thanks!