i want to use the upgrader_process_complete (documentation) to check if my plugin was updated (to run some scripts). My question is: when this action is triggered, WordPress is already running the new version of the plugin or it is just downloaded and i will need to wait the next request to get the latest version … Read more
I am getting the following error from comment-reply.min.js (which seems to be a WordPress file): Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘firstChild’ of null at comment-reply.min.js?ver=026d5828124b6319675d89d24f212b97:2 at Object.moveForm (comment-reply.min.js?ver=026d5828124b6319675d89d24f212b97:2) at HTMLAnchorElement.a (comment-reply.min.js?ver=026d5828124b6319675d89d24f212b97:2) Is this a known issue after upgrading to WordPress 5.5 or should I start debugging it? What would be the best way to address … Read more
Background: I have a plugin with the purpose of changing up the indexes on some of WordPress’s tables to make them more efficient for large sites. The plugin changes some primary and other keys for faster data lookups, to exploit MySQL InnoDB’s clustered index data structure. During the WordPress version upgrade (from 5.8.3 to 5.9) … Read more
It began with version 3.7.1: You are using WordPress 3.7.1. Update to 3.7.1 I’ve installed and usually update WP with git from https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress: cd wordpress git fetch –tags git checkout 3.8 Then I usually download localized version (ru_RU) and copy over updated language files (wp-content/languages/). Everything was smooth until 3.7.1 and it looks like I’m … Read more
From time to time i want to give my registered users the chance to upgrade their user role by themselves for free. I tried this by writing a little plugin, but sady i can’t get the html form to show when using the shortcode, and therefore cant test if it works or not. I would … Read more
I just tried an automatic upgrade of List Category Posts plugin to version 0.17.2 on WordPress 3.0.5. I think I had 0.17.1 before. It installed but failed to activate: Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error. Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in … Read more
My client is using Softaculous for software upgrading. I tried upgrading from the WordPress dashboard and it wouldn’t let me. Do I have to somehow “uninstall” Softaculous for this to work? 4 Answers 4 Softaculous doesnt configure anything in WordPress which would stop a Manual Upgrade. You can contact the support team and they should … Read more
We have a pretty basic load balancing setup with 3 web servers behind a load balancer connected to the same db server and pointing their wp-content/uploads folder to an nfs share. We have the first server rsynching the wordpress files across the other 2 in a cron job to keep the servers in sync (all … Read more
I have WordPress installed in a classic LAMP configuration. Is there any way to, in a protected environment (like staging), automatically log all database changes (i.e. drop indexes or alter tables) done by a WordPress upgrade process? 1 Answer 1 Why would you need to log them? They’re defined in the code itself. Look at … Read more
Lets assume following situation: I develop a plugin. The plugin requires custom database table to store some kind of information. From month to month I release new versions of my plugin. Different versions could have their own sets of changes of the table structure and table’s data. For instance: version 1.0.0 has initial setup for … Read more
