owencutajar

Thanks. Couldn’t find the string anywhere in the theme, but I’ll get in touch with the theme developers.

In the meantime, I have got around the issue by specifying an end-date for the campaigns. Thanks for the prompt response!

Hi there,

I’ve tested the button on our test rigs and can confirm it should still be working as designed.

It could be a conflict with another theme or plugin running on your site, so would suggest turning off all other plugins and switching to a default theme just to confirm the button works (because if it doesn’t you may have a corrupt file that can be fixed by reinstalling the plugin).

Could you try this in the first instance?

Regards

Owen

Hi Wordfrog/Mika,

We’ve just updated the plugin to use wp_mail as per Mika’s suggestion. Apologies for the oversight, we switched the premium version to using wp_mail many moons ago when we added UTF8 functionality, but never retrofitted it to the free version.

Thanks to both for highlighting the issue and helping us improve WP Auctions

Regards

Owen

The link you need is prepared just before the Paypal line I pointed you at before:

// prepare link
if (strlen($rows->staticpage) > 0) {
$link = $rows->staticpage.”?auction_id=”.$auction_id;
} else {
$link = get_option(‘siteurl’).”?auction_to_show=”.$auction_id;
}

$link contains the URL where the auction is being shown. The code there caters both for in-page auctions (where a page is set as part of the auction definition) and for the popup style auction (where the widget is used to display the auctions).

get_the_id() doesn’t make sense in this context on it’s own, as one particular page/post can be used to display any auction in the system.

Hope this makes sense,

Owen

Hi there,

Not sure what you’re referring to. The get_the_id() function returns the post/page the auction is embedded in (unless you’re using the popup version). This will not give you any auction details. We use a separate ID for that.

Regards

Owen

Hey there,

There’s only one place you need to change, inside wp_auctions.php, inside a function called check_auction_end. The code you’re looking for is:

switch ($payment_method) {
case “paypal”:
$payment = “\n\nYou can pay for the auction by clicking on the link below:”;
$payment .= “\n\nhttps://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=”.urlencode($paypal).”&item_name=”.urlencode($rows->name).”&amount=”.urlencode($rows->winning_price).”&shipping=”.urlencode($shipping_price).”&no_shipping=0&no_note=1&currency_code=”.$currencycode.”&lc=GB&bn=PP%2dBuyNowBF&charset=UTF%2d8″;
break;

Good idea re the sandbox option. Hasn’t been requested before, but we’ll add it on to our wish list for the next update

Regards

Owen

Hi Woofdriver,

Just ran the scan against our dev site and not seeing any issue with our plugin. Can you send us a screenshot of what you are seeing?

I’m not too sure that the Anti-Malware plugin from GOTMLS.NET is reliable, as it is pointing at a number of WordPress files and claiming that they are ‘Potentional Threats’. I would expect that it would know if WordPress include files are dangerous or not. If I can recommend a different security plugin, I make extensive use of Wordfence which I believe is the best security plugin available at the moment ( https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordfence/ ). Can I recommend you use this to prevent your site being hacked.

Regards

Owen

Hi Gruny,

Unfortunately it’s not a trivial thing to accomplish, because the ordering criteria is defined by a single field. I’ve done some research and it seems like we’d have to add another custom field to make it happen:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33209880/in-wp-query-how-can-i-order-by-a-complex-calculated-or-conditional-fields

How important is this for you? If it is, I’ll see if I can build it into the next version of the plugin.

Regards

Owen

Hi Gruny,

You can compute the rating by dividing meta_key ‘points’ by meta_key ‘shown’ .. this will give you the rating.

Hope you’re enjoying the plugin!

Owen

One thing to try.

I’m only looking at performance because there are no errors in your PHP logs. Any chance you can install this plugin to help get an idea where your performance bottlenecks are:

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/p3-profiler/

Regards

Owen

Hi there,

I’m working with Hyder to try to get to the bottom of your white pages and I’m currently suspecting you’re running out of resources on your server. We’ve turned on error logging on the site but there are no Fatal errors, which are usually the cause of white pages resulting from PHP errors, hence suspecting there’s an underlying cause.

Your error logs are also showing diagnostics from Akismet, see here:
https://test.texaswagyuassociation.com/wp-content/debug.log

I’ve never come across these before.

Can I suggest you lighten the load on your server by using a simpler theme (one of the ones that ship with WordPress), just as a test to see if this still causes white pages?

Regards

Owen

Hi there,

Unfortunately it’s not possible to specify a different order in the plugin.

Regards

Owen

Yeah . the UTC+0 thing seems to be a WordPress bug. I’ve reported it in trac:

https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/31809

and the new version codes defensively around it.

Now I need to make sure Claire’s issue above isn’t something else

Hi Claire,

One more question. In timezone settings the top half are countries and the bottom half are UTC+something. Which set are you using? Could you try using the other set and seeing if you have the same issue?

Thanks

Owen

Hi there,

Can you give me an example of what date you’re trying to save? The datetimepicker should be creating a date in the following format:

dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd', timeFormat: ' hh:mm:ss'

But the date you’re getting suggests your server is receiving an invalid date.

If you could just copy the contents of your End Date field BEFORE saving (or take a screenshot), it will help identify the issue.

Regards

Owen

p.s. I’m assuming the you’re using the date/time picker, rather than typing in the end date yourself, right?