Roost

Resolved by uploading via FTP and activating the plugin manually. Appeared to be a restriction from the web host.

Hey Philippe,

The message you are seeing sounds like there may be some restrictions on the host you are using for your WordPress site. However, we are glad to help.

Please email us directly at support [at] goroost [dot] com and we’ll help you work through getting this plugin rolling.

Hello Kirdan,

We have tested and resolved the above error you were receiving, which also prevented the main page of the Roost plugin from being displayed within your WordPress admin dashboard.

It appears to have been related to PHP versions older than 5.3.

Please download and update to v2.1.1 of the Roost for Bloggers plugin.

Let us know if you come across anything else, and thank you again for letting us know of this bug.

Hello Kirdan,

Thanks for passing this info along. We are working towards releasing a fix for this soon.

Would you be willing to test a fix for us and get us some more information?

If so, please email me at support [at] roost [dot] me.

Hey Einkoro,

Great news! We just pushed v2.1 of the Roost plugin, which contains bbPress support.

Let us know if you have any questions or come across anything.

Hey Qobalt,

Great suggestion! We’ll put it on our dev list and keep you updated.

Hey Moretti.a,

We dug into this and it should not be resolved. Thanks for letting us know.

Hey mallard66,

Great suggestion. We have this on our list and will be addressing it in future releases.

Thanks for checking us out.

We just revisited the support for this. Due to conflicts with other plugins triggering notifications to be sent multiple times, we restricted the Auto Post to “post” types only.

The option that you would still have is to send the notifications manually from the admin dashboard.

Hey Einkoro,

That’s an interesting thought. We have not looked into this yet, but are always open for new ideas.

I have added this to our list and will review for future updates.

I’ll keep you posted.

Thanks ArcaneRaven!

We really put some time into ease-of-use. If you ever have ideas, just let us know.

Hey designwise,

I checked out the Google cached version of your site and see what the issue is.

The Roost for Bloggers plugin takes care of handling the Roost JavaScript insertion as well as providing a way to control the settings. When not using the plugin, you have to copy and paste the Roost JavaScript snippet that is shown when creating a Roost account.

This snippet is present on your site. It looks like you copied this snippet onto your site as well as using the plugin. So even though you removed the plugin, you also now need to remove the snippet. In the Google cached version of your page it is shown on line 457. While this snippet is present, your Roost account is still active on your page, which explains the bar being inserted.

If you’d like, I’m still willing to help you remove this and return your site back to it’s original state.

Just let me know how we can help.

Thanks for your response and the opportunity to chat designwise.

This is definitely not the intended behavior. Do you happen to know what version of the plugin you were using?

Version 1.x did write some code to the DOM, but it was a dynamic insertion and in no way should hang around. This code was not written to the database either, it is inserted upon page load. The only information the plugin (v1.x or 2.x) inserts into the database is the plugin settings and your Roost appkey.

Version 2 of the plugin does not write this code block, rather handles everything from a single JavaScript include where your settings are controlled from the admin panel.

Do you happen to use a CDN or some other optimization on your site? The only way I can figure this would make sense is if a CDN or your browser cached your page, which would act as if the code for the Roost plugin had actually been inserted into the database or page view.

Regardless, this is not our intention nor should it work this way.

May we discuss off this thread a 15 minute time slot where we could screen share and review your site? I will be more than happy to get your rolling with Roost (with it behaving properly) or help you fully remove this from your site.

Thanks hack2learn. We’re happy to have you as a user.

– Dan

Thanks PointStart,

We appreciate the kind words. Let us know if you ever need anything.

– Dan