Micah Wood

Websites are often aggressively cached on mobile devices even when browser caching is disabled. Most likely, you’re experiencing this. Unfortunately, this is entirely outside of the control of the plugin.

If you’re using an iPhone, this should be a workaround (but just for you): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203036

Most everyone else is going to see the same content on mobile until the cache on the device expires or is manually cleared.

@iyarten Hmm, I’m not sure what would be doing that.

Can you visit this path on your domain and grab a screenshot of your existing settings? /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=simple-website-redirect

Actually, it looks like you may have bigger problems. I just loaded again and got “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.”. Maybe your host is doing some maintenance?

@jrj9 I just tested going to the site and it seems to be working now. Were you able to figure out the issue?

The plugin is stored in this location: wp-content/plugins/simple-website-redirect.

@mattapex Thanks for letting me know about this. I’ll take a closer look and let you know what I find.

Do you have any specifics about what aspects of the styling were affected?

@wcimbrelo

I’m glad to hear it is working for you. Have a great new year and let us know if you have any other issues!

@wcimbrelo Sorry, that isn’t a fix… more of a follow-up question. Whoever told you your PHP version is 5 just gave you incomplete information.

I’m actually 95% sure this is just a file permissions problem. I think you should just reach out to GoDaddy and explain that you can’t active the Blank Slate plugin on your site and you believe it is due to a file permission issue.

Given your previous response to Aaron, I’m relatively certain the file actually exists. The error you are getting is either because the file doesn’t exist on the filesystem (due to incomplete or corrupted plugin install or FTP file upload), the web server doesn’t have permissions to access the file, or in a very rare scenario, there could be other PHP or server configuration issues.

It should be a 5.x number like 5.2, 5.4 or 5.6.

What version of PHP are you running?

I was considering making that value editable via the shortcode. Ultimately, 100 was chosen because it provides enough randomness without compromising on performance. Querying large numbers of posts in a non-cacheable fashion isn’t a good idea.

But you can find the code that controls that here: https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/random-post-on-refresh/trunk/RandomPostOnRefresh.php#L145

@chrismorgan78

There is a new version 1.1.3 of the plugin available. Please try it out and let us know if you still have any issues.

Thanks!

@birgire

That should be resolved with the new version 1.1.3 release.

@knohllmrs

Sorry about that. We just released a new version that is fully WordPress 5.0 compatible. Please try updating to version 1.1.3.

Thank you!

@ironlion37

Glad to hear you found a solution.

It would be cool to add that as a feature, but I don’t think I’ll be doing that anytime soon.

@ironlion37

So one of two things could be happening:

1. The shortcode is configured by default to show images. As such, the plugin will only fetch posts that have images. If you have a small selection of posts with images, this could be the issue. Options if this is the case are to either add images to more posts, or configure the shortcode not to show images.

2. The previous version of the plugin (1.0) had a bug related to the number of posts it would pull from when selecting a random post. The collection of posts from which the random post was selected was only as large as the number of posts set to display on a single page. By default, this is 10… however, if you set this to 1, your random post would never change. In order to prevent this, the code was updated to select from the 100 most recent matches given the shortcode parameters. Updating to version 1.1 of the plugin should fix this issue.