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Found your post as I’m evaluating some forms plugins to use with Square payments.

I’m successfully embedding <script> code in WP5+ sites for various reasons by using the “WP Coder” plugin. No problems encountered so far. Might work with Cognito, worth a try if you’re stuck.

I have the same problem on several sites now. I just updated a site to latest WordPress version, updated existing plugins before looking for a new one, and find I can only add plugins by downloading them from author sites first. Plugin search fails :

An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with www.ads-software.com or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums.

I maintain a lot of sites, and have only seen this problem happening in the past 48 hours on sites I update and then attempt to extend.

Thanks for help.

It seems it was the plugin “Display Widgets” by system11 that conflicted. It wasn’t required anyway, thankfully. ??

RG

Thanks for checking all that out. The iste is live now so the problem became unimportant as the trailing slash doesn’t affect it live.

Great support though. Thanks.

Hmm. I think you’re right.

The site is being developed on a shared server, pre-transfer of the domain, so it’s just a subdirectory on an ip address. I’m assuming the ECWID API doesn’t cope with that kind of URL.

There’s no easy workaround because until this version is finished, the old site has to remain up and running on the domain – and i don’t host it until transfer. Simple answer is to wait until I have transferred the domain.

Hi

Thanks for the quick response.

Site is at https://176.32.230.42/simplyawesomevapor.co.uk/
Idiosyncrasy: the URL will usually need the final forwardslash to load because it’s currently not a live domain.

It’s using the Twenty-Fourteen theme, I switched to that from the custom one which was created using Artisteer.

This is an annoying step from WordPress.

Choice is everything. I admin multiple sites on my own server for business clients. I have a secure password policy that enables me to create secure passwords that are different for every site, but that I can infer from my knowledge of my own rules for creating them. I do NOT require a nanny to create them for me, although the option is nice.

Whilst I can log into MyPHPAdmin and create passwords there, it’s an annoying and complex step, and I don’t like being forced to jump through hoops because of someone’s assumption that I’m not capable of taking care of my own security.

WordPress should make the auto-generation a “recommended” option. If users of sites on my server prefer to have insecure passwords it should be possible to do so, but at their own risk and after giving suitable warnings.

Either that, or allow passwords to be created manually to a set of rules which can be chosen by the Administrator of the site.

This is my first ever serious moan about a WordPress policy. I hope it gets re-considered. It’s a totally draconian change and not what we expect from friendly open-source WordPress.

Just to add – Watermarking doesn’t work with an image watermark or with text, although we do get a “success” message after applying the Watermark to images.

Rob

OK, info from host:

” The correct path is “/usr/bin/convert” – Convert is the executable, not a folder. Please remove the trailing “/” and this should work. “

However, saving the options puts the “/” back at the end of the line. Hmmm. I hate it when what I want is over-ridden by automation. How do other people get this working if this is the case?

Robert

Thanks Paul

Memory looks OK as you suggest. Still waiting for response from the Host.

Thanks for the old versions link. That might just come in very handy!

Rob

Hi again

Yes, I checked for Image Magick in the Webhost’s FAQ, they do support it and the path is correct… but (sigh) I still get the error, which is a “check the path” error.

I’ve notified the Webhost. It wouldn’t be the first time the FAQ was out of date! ;o)

I’ve now tried uploading images 800×600 and only 91k … three at a time, so I’m pretty sure it isn’t a memory problem. I’ve noticed some people went back to an earlier version of NextGen and their (similar) problems went away… but I don’t have an earlier installer saved.

Just waiting on the Webhost to respond now…

Rob

Hi Paul, and thanks for answering the question!

I have selected ImageMagick and uploaded a few images. Now I still get the “A failure occurred” error, but at least there’s a [more] link!

The actual error now is “Could not execute ImageMagick. Please check path”

Looks like my installation doesn’t support ImageMagick. Back to square one… but thanks anyway!

I don’t want to manually code it in (I found some stuff about doing that by Googling it) and I’d really like to understand why the smaller images are OK and what the break point is sizewise.

Any other ideas out there?

OK. More info.

File size of each image was approx. 800k. Actual size approx. 3200×2400 pixels. Thought they might be too big.

Tried a different set of pictures, 1024x768px, filesizes approx. 200k, worked fine.

Set options to reduce image size on upload and not backup originals. Tried again with the larger files.

Now runs through upload dialog, apparently uploading each each file. After last file is uploaded, the plage blanks except for title and sidebar. Nothing else happens, even if left.

Checking the gallery, only one picture is uploaded and has no thumbnail. Can’t create a thumbnail.

Is there a filesize limit that isn’t mentioned?
Is there an image size limit?
Something else?