Chris

Do you know if there is still an issue with the latest version?

I am concerned too, these forums don’t seem to get too much of a response from the author, and since his site basically says not to contact him directly for support on the plugin I’m not even going to try.

I just used the PHP Compatibility Checker plugin by WP Engine and it says this plugin is not compatible. It’s very possible that it still works, I don’t know enough about the PHP version changes to know until I try it. Looking at the report, I’m no expert but it seems like it may be an easy fix. If it does cause an issue I think I might try to get it to work.

FILE: […]/shortcodes-ultimate/inc/core/generator-views.php
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FOUND 1 ERROR AFFECTING 1 LINE
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44 | ERROR | Function name, class name, namespace name or constant name can not be reserved keyword ‘bool’ (since version 7.0)
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• This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by Chris.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by Chris.

Hey guys, I’m using the same tool, the PHP7 Compatibility Checker by WP Engine, and there’s a warning I’m seeing that wasn’t in the OP. It’s just a warning, so I assume it would still work fine. Any thoughts?

FILE: […]/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/phpunit/WP_Mock_Functions.php
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FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE
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48 | WARNING | Function name “__” is discouraged; PHP has reserved all method names with a double underscore prefix for future use
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Ah, perfect! I didn’t know that would add the additional class to work with. I thought that was just a choice between inline styles or putting them in an external stylesheet – now I see it is more than that.

Thanks!

No, I’m referring to the “div that wraps the captcha input field”, not the field itself, the div that wraps around it. As in this code:

<div style="text-align:left; float:left; padding-top:10px;">
     <input style="text-align:left; margin:0; width:50px;" value="" id="fscf_captcha_code2" name="captcha_code" type="text">
</div>

This also applies to all the other fields as well. It would be nice to have classes on the divs that wrap around each label and each field. The only one that has something like this is the captcha label.

Hmm, I don’t mean to be rude, but I thought it was pretty clear.

There is a div that wraps the captcha input field. That div does not have a unique id or class. This means we can not easily apply custom styles to that div.

The site I’m working on that brought me here to ask this question is not publicly accessible yet – it’s still under development. However, this is not a site specific issue. Here’s a random site: https://nursinghomesabuseadvocate.com/.

Hi Terry, unfortunately this plugin hasn’t been updated in over 3 years. Although it is still a great plugin, I lost hope of getting any updates and switched to a different plugin. I considered porting features from his other plugin, Solid Code Theme Editor, but I just don’t have the time and lost interest.

Now I use a plugin called WPide. It hasn’t been updated either, and it has some drawbacks, as well as some benefits, and overall I like it and use it all the time. I’d love to update it with the latest version of ACE and extend it’s features, but it’s not an easy task and I haven’t had the time to work on it.

Anyway, check out WPide, you might like it.

Maybe WordPress should develop a permissions/acceptance thing like you see on android apps – “this plugin can: automatically download additional files, etc.”.

Since that’s not very likely, I have some ideas for ways to work around this…

Would it be possible to move the automatic updates feature to a separate plugin, host that plugin yourself, and recommend that plugin with a link within the iQ Country Block settings page?

If not, would it be possible to move the database location to the current month’s upload folder? That way we could upload the dat file through WordPress Media Library. (or would that not work, are dat files allowed? if not, is there a way to make them allowed?)

One more idea, I don’t know anything about the MaxMind license and redistribution, but could you include the database in the plugin files and update the plugin monthly with the new database?

No problem, I just wanted to bring the issue up in hopes that it would get fixed in a future version – great to hear that it is already in the works.

Yep, I am a PHP/WordPress developer, I build plugins and modify plugins, so that is exactly what I did (to either Dooodl or Adminer, I don’t recall).

Great! That seems to have fixed it. Thanks for the quick fix!

The Folder in bucket field is empty.

I thought it was localized to just the one site, but now this issue is occurring on all of the sites I manage (or at least several that were scheduled to run during the last two days), all with the same error, and nothing changed on those sites other than updating the plugins.

Thanks Daniel! I look forward to the update.

Awesome! Thanks.

Sure thing. The error doesn’t actually come up in your plugin, it is only seen when another plugin also tries to create a function with the same name. One such plugin is Adminer, a phpMyAdmin plugin – I posted a similar topic in their forum. Here is the full error (home folder account id replaced):

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare redirect() (previously declared in /home/content/99/99999999/html/wp-content/plugins/dooodl/Dooodl.php:921) in /home/content/99/99999999/html/wp-content/plugins/adminer/inc/adminer/include/functions.inc.php on line 512

Hi Alphawolf,

Thanks for the opportunity! I’m in the same position, limited on time, but I’d be happy to work on this when I have a little free time. It might be a week or more before I can post a proper update, but I’d love to do whatever I can.

I had the same problem and found a quick fix.

If a plugin does not have a readme file, it checks the WordPress repository. So I just disabled the readme lookup and made it always check the repository.

There are several ways to disable it, most coders would simply delete the relevant code and if/else blocks (starting at line 173) or turn the same code into comment code (so the original code is still there).

To keep things simple for the average non-coder, the easiest way to do this is to change line 173 of the plugin from

if( file_exists( $bpcc_readme ) ) {

to

if( file_exists( $bpcc_readme ) && 1==0 ) {

This effectively disables the check (because one is never equal to zero).

Now all the version info is pulled directly from www.ads-software.com.

One small issue: it will take a little longer to load the plugins page if there are large number of plugins (70 plugins took 25-30 seconds to load, where before it only took 6-8 seconds). It wouldn’t be difficult to cache this information as a database transient so that the page loads faster most of the time. If anyone needs this, I’ll work on it.

I was using IQ Country Block to block everything but the US, but I recently found out that W3TC was caching the blocked pages and some US visitors were not able to access the site. I ‘want’ to block countries, but I ‘need’ to use page caching.

I have not tried the falcon caching, so I’ll check it out and see how it compares to W3TC.