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MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

please do… even if only couple, we would like to understand and solve…

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
Member

Tried to update 4 plugins this morning on docsplace and received the usual error. But found this in an error log. 

[13-Sep-2015 07:50:02 UTC] PHP Warning:  Creating default object from empty value in /home/docsplace/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/simple-press/sp-startup/site/sp-site-support-functions.php on line 686

Hopefully this will help. The other site updated fine.

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

no, not really…  its a harmless notice that I will get fixed up in next release…

but will send you a pm…

FI fiddlerman
fiddlerman
Member

May I please have the URL for the update.

I can only see this much:

https://simple-press.com/download-manager.php?id=727…

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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

Are you seeing this every time you try?

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
Member

Really a strange problem indeed.

My sucks site updates fine but docsplace gives the before mentioned error. Basically identical sites with the same plugins etc. And on the same server too.

FI fiddlerman
fiddlerman
Member

I don’t know if the URL is secret based on whether a purchase has been made or not, but if it is, please just PM the URL to me so I can do the update.

Thanks

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

no secret… you can always get core here:  https://simple-press.com/downloads/simple-press-core-plugin/

BA Bart
Bart
Member

Hello,

As an extension of this thread, https://simple-press.com/support-forum/sp5-general-topics/simple-press-update-to-5-5-10-build-13317-fails/  5 months later and many plugin and Word updates later (all to latest versions), the same error persists.

Download failed Service Unavailable

If you want to review everything that has been checked and tried, the old thread has many details. I have been manually downloading and installing from each link, only way to update Simple:Press and it’s plugins.

Second question while here. Members can edit their comments but want to be able to delete their comments in the forum, sporting a feature with a admin definable time frame of 5 minutes showing a count down much like this plugin which works wonderfully for WordPress: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-comment-editing/  Anything like this in the works? Currently there is a permanent edit comment option which is not ideal.

IK Ike
Ike
Member

Hey S. E. Ray,

I will have to leave the upgrade question to Steve or Andy, but as to the editing question have you tried out the permission ‘Can edit own posts for time period’? This can be defined in Forum > Options > Global Settings > Post Editing.

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
Member

I gave up on this situation. Been the same story on my docsplace.org blog. I have changed my theme, paused then disabled CloudFlare. Nothing works. No errors in Firefox console. Other WordPress plugins upgrade fine.

The other site (the same wp version and plugins) updates correctly. All i can do is ftp download the updated plugins and upload to the other site.

EK Edward Koon
Edward Koon
Member

I found the sp update plugin problem. Turns out it was the CloudFlare plugin blocking the update request.

Seems CloudFlare had a serious security hole and how they fixed it was beyond logic. Deleting the cf plugin and running mod cloudflare on my server cured that problem. Found that today as 5 sp plugins needed updating and this time they did!

Regards, Ed

FI fiddlerman
fiddlerman
Member

In an attempt to solve the mystery, I am posting my plugins here. If you have any of these plugins and the autoupdates work for you, please let me know so that I can remove them from my list and start trouble shooting.

Ad Codes Widget
Akismet
All In One SEO Pack
Composite Post
ConvertPlug
DRP WordPress User Management
Duplicate Post
Eggplant 301 Redirects
Exclude Pages from Navigation
File Gallery
Google Analytics by MonsterInsights
Google XML Sitemaps
iframe
Improved User Search in Backend
JW Player 6 Plugin for WordPress
Map Pins Plugin Series
Page Links To
Relevanssi
Simple:Press
Srizon Responsive Youtube Album Pro
Sucuri Security
SumoMe
SwfObj
VideoStir Spokesperson
WordPress Chat by Chatwee
WP No Category Base
WP Post Columns
WP-Mail-SMTP
WP-Polls

Thanks….