rmcmorran

No reply after 1 month – safe to say this plugin has been abandoned.

OK having had a good night’s sleep I think I have solved this. It’s mainly down to PayPal’s utterly bewildering interface and poor usability. I’ll post my solution here for the benefit of others.

Log into your PayPal account (you need to have a PayPal business account)

Go to the DEVELOPER dashboard
https://developer.paypal.com/developer/applications

Ensure that the Sandbox button is selected at the top of the page

In the left-hand menu select Accounts

This should bring up a Sandbox test accounts list. You should have 2 sandbox accounts – Business and Personal.

Here you have a list of your test/sandbox accounts. The basic idea is as follows:

1. enter the email and Merchant ID from the sandbox Business account details into the WP PayPal plugin settings
2. when you test out your button, you log into PayPal using the sandbox Personal account details.

To obtain these details, you have to click the tiny grey dots to the right of each account and then select view/edit account from the little popover (yes, this is PayPal usability – took me hours to figure this out). A modal box pops up and lists all the login details and merchant IDs for each account. Copy this info in to a text file to use for testing.

Hope this helps!!

Yes I am using my PayPal Merchant ID. I can’t see anything in PayPal settings to set up a sandbox account Merchant ID. I set up sandbox credentials in the developer dashboard but that gives me an API key and a secret, none of which seems to fit into WP PayPal settings.

PS I tried the solution of turning off “block non-encrypted website payment” as recommended previously, but this has had no effect.

OK thanks that would be very helpful! I can’t see an email address on here – am I looking in the wrong place? I can send you the ICS link to confirm.

Hi. thanks for all the suggestions. In the end I just gave up, deleted the page and started again and it seems to be OK. Looks like the page data got corrupted in some way that I don’t understand, but the simple solution was to give up and start all over again.

I originally used Heath Check plugin to isolate the issue 2 weeks ago, which is what led me to identify Wordfence as the source of the conflict and post here in the first place.

Hi – I have installed jQuery Migrate development tool but there is no change. I don’t know what to do next. Where is the Wordfence review button you mention? I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Wordfence but to no avail.

Hi thanks for the reply. Screengrab of the console as you suggest. There’s a 404 on a missing favicon which I need to fix, but that’s defintley not the issue here. The only error I’m getting is
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘selectText’ of null
so I guess there’s some object missing? But it only occurs when Wordfence is active

https://snipboard.io/JsBk2L.jpg

Thanks for the reply. Sadly that solution had no effect – I even tried uninstalling and re-installing the ACF plugin during learning mode but the WYIWYG but to no effect.

Ah, yes I see now! Thank you!

It was on the instructions page. Actually TBH the documentation isn’t very clear – I think it would help to show a list of all the shortcode parameters rather than just showing them in those tiny scrolling boxes, as it’s easy to miss useful info.

Great plugin though!

Oh well that’s good news then! If I can get that bug sorted, it’s going to work great for us! If you remember, let me know when an update is released, but I’ll try to keep checking anyway. Thanks!

Thanks for the input. Yes, filesize can have a bearing, but in this instance I discovered it was the “Maximum image width” setting in the plugin settings. Camera uploads don’t seem to trigger the inline error message if the photo exceeds the max width. I simply increased the width and the problem was fixed!

Which has given rise to a secondary issue with camera uploads. On the iPhone, the image name is “image.jpg”. This is a problem as soon as another camera photo is uploaded as it has the same filename and simply overwrites the previous one, so we end up with duplicate images. Is there any plugin setting to set a unique filename (e.g. append a timestamp value) to prevent this from happening?

OK thanks. So for anyone who wants to include the sender name and email in the text body, I put this code into wp-content/filterPostie.php :

add_filter('postie_post_before', 'my_postie_post_before', 10, 2 );

function my_postie_post_before($post, $headers) {
	$post['post_content'] =  "From: " .$headers['from']['personal'] ." - " . $headers['from']['mailbox'] ."@" . $headers['from']['host'] ." ". $post['post_content'] ;
    return $post;
}