I am having trouble with the update notifications php files that come with the different plugins. The one with admin ads for example is blanking out my website, ipjos.com and my admin panel. I have been playing with it and that file is definetly the cause. So I have not uploaded it to my mu-plugins folder. Do I need it? Can I just use this update notifications plugin to serve the same purpose? If I need it what could the problem be? I have downloaded the plug in again and reinstalled it and I have the same problem.
lol. Thanks Andrew. You can tell I am new to this. I've already uploaded it a half dozen times. I did have my website "white out" on me again though. It was when I was uploading the avatar plugin. It happened after I uploaded all of the files and before I got to steps two and three, which I was hoping I could skip because I don't know how to do this:
2) Add the following to your .htaccess under the line that handles uploaded files:
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?avatar/(.*) wp-content/avatar.php?file=$2 [L]
3) Create the following directories and chmod them to 777:
/wp-content/avatars/user
/wp-content/avatars/blog
I just deleted all of the files I added until I can figure out how to do these two steps. Is the "whiting out" of the website no big deal? Why does that happen? But I digress, if you could tell me how to do this or direct me to the place that will show me I would appreciate it. Sorry to ask, but it seems there is not really a remedial enough section on this website for me. Everyone seems to be talking in a foreign language when I browse these post. I think I found my htaccess in my www folder, but I am reluctant to open it before I know what I am doing. I guess I can open it with notepad but I don't know if I'll be able to identify which line handles uploaded files. Also I don't know how to creat a directory, but I think I could figure it out.
Is the "whiting out" of the website no big deal? Why does that happen?
It generally means that there is an error being tossed. You can find the error in your error log (ask your host if you're not sure how to access your error log).
As for installing the avatars plugin... we generally try to keep threads on topic/one topic per thread. So please start a new thread detailing what you need us to assist with :)
Due to WP 3.0 coming out, do we really have to manually download and reupload all plugins following the directions? That would take several days! We really hope the "Update Now" button works for the most part...
A comment (by Andrew, I believe) was made that manual reuploading with the new versions of the plugins is recommended, but with 80+ plugins, that is a process I do NOT want to go through again...
I'm in the same boat as VentureMaker, I get a 404 page when I click the update link. That was happening before I upgraded the update notifications plug-in, and after I upgraded to 1.0.3.
Update Notifications only notifies you of plugin updates.
That would be awsome. Is there a fix in the works? It would be really great if there was some way to tell which wpmudev plugins & themes were out of date without having to manually search for each one every once in a while.
Some folks say this plugin works on some hosts, but it has never worked for me.
Since this is being bundled with every download... *sigh* well, you know where I'm going with this.
EDIT: Sorry if this post seems a bit off... I just spent hours going through all my wpmedev plugins... Over 150 instances of your plugins & themes being used in 5 sites (some live & some in dev).
Fun! Wow!
Hmmm... Guess I was blinded by frustration last night. I read the whole thread but somehow skipped the above mentioned post.
Appologies to @Aaron et al.
I get this error in the httpd error log. The plugins admin page looks fine, but the bp-daily theme doesn't seem at all well.
[Fri Jun 25 13:21:42 2010] [error] [client 64.170.37.52] PHP Warning: include_once(/var/www/don/wordpress/wp-content/mu-plugins/update-notifications.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/don/wordpress/wp-settings.php on line 150, referer: http://wp3.softgenx.com/wp-admin/themes.php
[Fri Jun 25 13:21:42 2010] [error] [client 64.170.37.52] PHP Warning: include_once(): Failed opening '/var/www/don/wordpress/wp-content/mu-plugins/update-notifications.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/don/wordpress/wp-settings.php on line 150, referer: http://wp3.softgenx.com/wp-admin/themes.php
Andrews been a bit busy. I'll be looking into this soon. It will be a major update as it doesn't seem to be working for anyone at the moment (including me).
It told me it needed to be updated today - along with the Anti-splog plugin. Which is brilliant .....
But.... both it and the Anti-splog plugin updates shipped with the OLD version of the update notification plugin at the top level - with the update notification plugin having the right version contained inside a second zip file.... all a bit confusing really.
I noticed you started added variable testing (i.e. isset()). I was hoping you could add others and a deprecated item fix so as to eliminate all the warnings.
Here are the ones I have been putting in:
line 55: $id = (isset($id[1]))?$id[1]:'';
line 62: $version = (isset($version[1]))?$version[1]:'';
Deprecation on line 428:
add_submenu_page('ms-admin.php', 'WPMU DEV' . $count_output, 'WPMU DEV' . $count_output, 'manage_sites', 'wpmudev', 'update_notificiations_page_output');
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28th January 2011 (1 year ago)
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Works fine for many folks. Please start a new thread and give us the normal requested details. (ie specific versions, a webserver error logs check, etc....)
I can't update to the newer version i get an error that says
An error occurred while updating WPMU DEV Update Notifications: Incompatible Archive. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature.
WPMU DEV Update Notifications updated successfully.
When the update hasn't been updated and is still hte same version.
Not sure this is the right thread but when I network activate the Update Notifications plugin I can no longer access the dashboard. This only happens when I attempt to login in as super-admin.
I can access the dashboard normally when I log in as regular admin.
Responses (32)
Member — 5th February 2010 (2 years ago) #
I get
Fatal error: Cannot use object of type WP_Error as array in /var/www/firedwok.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/update-notifications.php on line 342
in the dashboard. wpmu 2.9.1
Member — 5th February 2010 (2 years ago) #
nope. works now. must have been a first use thing. all works now
Erstwhile founder — 5th February 2010 (2 years ago) #
Thanks for reporting that. The next version will include a fix for that bug.
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 25th May 2010 (2 years ago) #
I am having trouble with the update notifications php files that come with the different plugins. The one with admin ads for example is blanking out my website, ipjos.com and my admin panel. I have been playing with it and that file is definetly the cause. So I have not uploaded it to my mu-plugins folder. Do I need it? Can I just use this update notifications plugin to serve the same purpose? If I need it what could the problem be? I have downloaded the plug in again and reinstalled it and I have the same problem.
same thing with "set password mu-plugin"
Thanks,
Chad
Erstwhile founder — 25th May 2010 (2 years ago) #
Hiya,
They're all the same plugin. You should only have one copy of the file in mu-plugins.
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 25th May 2010 (2 years ago) #
lol. Thanks Andrew. You can tell I am new to this. I've already uploaded it a half dozen times. I did have my website "white out" on me again though. It was when I was uploading the avatar plugin. It happened after I uploaded all of the files and before I got to steps two and three, which I was hoping I could skip because I don't know how to do this:
2) Add the following to your .htaccess under the line that handles uploaded files:
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?avatar/(.*) wp-content/avatar.php?file=$2 [L]
3) Create the following directories and chmod them to 777:
/wp-content/avatars/user
/wp-content/avatars/blog
I just deleted all of the files I added until I can figure out how to do these two steps. Is the "whiting out" of the website no big deal? Why does that happen? But I digress, if you could tell me how to do this or direct me to the place that will show me I would appreciate it. Sorry to ask, but it seems there is not really a remedial enough section on this website for me. Everyone seems to be talking in a foreign language when I browse these post. I think I found my htaccess in my www folder, but I am reluctant to open it before I know what I am doing. I guess I can open it with notepad but I don't know if I'll be able to identify which line handles uploaded files. Also I don't know how to creat a directory, but I think I could figure it out.
thanks for responding,
Chad
Erstwhile founder — 25th May 2010 (2 years ago) #
Hiya,
It generally means that there is an error being tossed. You can find the error in your error log (ask your host if you're not sure how to access your error log).
As for installing the avatars plugin... we generally try to keep threads on topic/one topic per thread. So please start a new thread detailing what you need us to assist with :)
Thanks,
Andrew
Member — 24th June 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hiya,
Just wanted to check with you guys if you managed to make update notifications plugin compatible with 3.0?
Cause when I click Update Now link there - it redirects me to frontend Not Found page.
Is it me or a bug?
Lead Developer — 24th June 2010 (1 year ago) #
Have you updated it? Don't worry about it for now though, we are trying to fix some bugs in our API for that right now.
Member — 24th June 2010 (1 year ago) #
Version: 1.0.3
Redirects to a non-existing page when clicked on 'Update Now' or 'Save'
Member — 24th June 2010 (1 year ago) #
Due to WP 3.0 coming out, do we really have to manually download and reupload all plugins following the directions? That would take several days! We really hope the "Update Now" button works for the most part...
A comment (by Andrew, I believe) was made that manual reuploading with the new versions of the plugins is recommended, but with 80+ plugins, that is a process I do NOT want to go through again...
Lead Developer — 24th June 2010 (1 year ago) #
Update Notifications only notifies you of plugin updates. It won't auto install them.
Member — 25th June 2010 (1 year ago) #
I'm in the same boat as VentureMaker, I get a 404 page when I click the update link. That was happening before I upgraded the update notifications plug-in, and after I upgraded to 1.0.3.
Member — 25th June 2010 (1 year ago) #
That would be awsome. Is there a fix in the works? It would be really great if there was some way to tell which wpmudev plugins & themes were out of date without having to manually search for each one every once in a while.
Some folks say this plugin works on some hosts, but it has never worked for me.
Since this is being bundled with every download... *sigh* well, you know where I'm going with this.
EDIT: Sorry if this post seems a bit off... I just spent hours going through all my wpmedev plugins... Over 150 instances of your plugins & themes being used in 5 sites (some live & some in dev).
Fun! Wow!
Member — 25th June 2010 (1 year ago) #
There is a simple fix for the 404 error :)
Open plugin file, search for wpmu-admin.php and replace with ms-admin.php
But still it does not pull any data for me :(
It doesn't even 'see' installed plugins/themes, so I suspect something else is wrong.
Or API issues that Aaron mentioned here: http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/update-notifications#post-43080
Member — 25th June 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hmmm... Guess I was blinded by frustration last night. I read the whole thread but somehow skipped the above mentioned post.
Appologies to @Aaron et al.
Member — 25th June 2010 (1 year ago) #
I get this error in the httpd error log. The plugins admin page looks fine, but the bp-daily theme doesn't seem at all well.
[Fri Jun 25 13:21:42 2010] [error] [client 64.170.37.52] PHP Warning: include_once(/var/www/don/wordpress/wp-content/mu-plugins/update-notifications.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/don/wordpress/wp-settings.php on line 150, referer: http://wp3.softgenx.com/wp-admin/themes.php
[Fri Jun 25 13:21:42 2010] [error] [client 64.170.37.52] PHP Warning: include_once(): Failed opening '/var/www/don/wordpress/wp-content/mu-plugins/update-notifications.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/don/wordpress/wp-settings.php on line 150, referer: http://wp3.softgenx.com/wp-admin/themes.php
Member — 13th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
Any progress on this?
when I click the "Update Now" link.The plugin still shows no info and I still get
Lead Developer — 13th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
Andrews been a bit busy. I'll be looking into this soon. It will be a major update as it doesn't seem to be working for anyone at the moment (including me).
Member — 14th July 2010 (1 year ago) #
I get this error. Is this related?
[Wed Jul 14 15:50:13 2010] [error] [client 64.170.37.100] PHP Warning: include_once(): Failed opening '/var/www/don/wordpress/wp-content/mu-plugins/update-notifications.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/don/wordpress/wp-settings.php on line 150, referer: http://wp3.softgenx.com/wp-admin/options-general.php
Member — 12th August 2010 (1 year ago) #
Member — 31st August 2010 (1 year ago) #
Has this been updated yet? How will we know when it has been?
Member — 31st August 2010 (1 year ago) #
When it's updated, the version number here will be greater than 1.0.3:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/update-notifications
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 31st August 2010 (1 year ago) #
There's a list of what's been updated along the right hand side of the plugins page as well:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/wordpress-plugins/
And some feeds too although they may or may not work for you:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/suggestion-news-about-new-and-updated-things-on-wpmu-premium#post-6526
Member — 18th November 2010 (1 year ago) #
It told me it needed to be updated today - along with the Anti-splog plugin. Which is brilliant .....
But.... both it and the Anti-splog plugin updates shipped with the OLD version of the update notification plugin at the top level - with the update notification plugin having the right version contained inside a second zip file.... all a bit confusing really.
Member — 18th November 2010 (1 year ago) #
Yea!!! I see updates!
Only problem so far is that is says I have Update Notifications 3.0.2 and the latest is 1.0.4
Member — 18th November 2010 (1 year ago) #
Thanks for putting out the update.
I noticed you started added variable testing (i.e. isset()). I was hoping you could add others and a deprecated item fix so as to eliminate all the warnings.
Here are the ones I have been putting in:
line 55: $id = (isset($id[1]))?$id[1]:'';
line 62: $version = (isset($version[1]))?$version[1]:'';
Deprecation on line 428:
add_submenu_page('ms-admin.php', 'WPMU DEV' . $count_output, 'WPMU DEV' . $count_output, 'manage_sites', 'wpmudev', 'update_notificiations_page_output');
instead of
add_submenu_page('ms-admin.php', 'WPMU DEV' . $count_output, 'WPMU DEV' . $count_output, 10, 'wpmudev', 'update_notificiations_page_output');
line 482 - Add variable to handle $_POST['action'] within function:
function update_notificiations_page_output() {
global $wpdb, $current_site, $update_notificiations_version, $update_notificiations_server_url;
$tmpGetAction = (isset($_GET['action']))?$_GET['action']:'';
line 536: $class = (isset($class) && 'alternate' == $class) ? '' : 'alternate';
cheers and keep up the good work,
matt
Member — 18th November 2010 (1 year ago) #
also 'is_super_admin' instead of 'is_site_admin'
cheers
Member — 27th January 2011 (1 year ago) #
Is the autoupdate function working yet? When I click the link to enter my API key, nothing happens.
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 28th January 2011 (1 year ago) #
Works fine for many folks. Please start a new thread and give us the normal requested details. (ie specific versions, a webserver error logs check, etc....)
Member — 1st April 2011 (1 year ago) #
I can't update to the newer version i get an error that says
An error occurred while updating WPMU DEV Update Notifications: Incompatible Archive. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature.
WPMU DEV Update Notifications updated successfully.
When the update hasn't been updated and is still hte same version.
Member — 29th April 2011 (1 year ago) #
Not sure this is the right thread but when I network activate the Update Notifications plugin I can no longer access the dashboard. This only happens when I attempt to login in as super-admin.
I can access the dashboard normally when I log in as regular admin.
The error I get is:
Notification codes: (1, INTERNAL_ERROR, http://ism-online.org/wp-admin/network/plugins.php?activate=true&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s=)When I delete the plugin, access returns. I'm on 3.1.2 and Buddy Press 1.2.8.
Thanks in advance for your help. I've been pretty impressed with the speed of response to my last two questions.
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