Update for 4.4x – deprecated issues

  • Resolved WebHostingValdosta

    (@webhostingvaldosta)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    First let me say this is / has been a GREAT PLUGIN! But on two of my my clients sites that use it their logs are being loaded by depreciated messages from the plugin.
    This was noticed after clients called about a loading delay on their websites.
    Upon looking into the issues and disabling plugins (and switching to basic themes (twenty 15), the problem was only corrected by disabling the PROPER Widgets plugin. Both clients use it for the Google News feature to display current articles relating to their websites.
    Both clients have updated WordPress versions, one with limited plugins the other with well more than I would like to see. But again fixing the issues came down to disabling the plugin and no more headaches.

    If it was just the error in the logs issue, I wouldn’t care (nor my clients) but even turning off the deprecated warnings to the logs the lag of the website loading was still an issue. NOTE: it was placing a warning fro every article they pulled / displayed in the feed, for every IP that loaded the page.

    I am trying to find out if you have a new version coming out SOON? – or do I need to instruct them to buy the Pro-Version — if that has been updated to eliminate these issue already?

    Thank you.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/proper-widgets/

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  • Plugin Author properwp

    (@properwp)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hey there!

    You can be safe knowing I’d never hold anyone ransom for a pro version to fix errors 🙂

    I’m way behind updating this plugin but I’m well aware of what the problem is and I’ll fix it as soon as I can! It’s nothing that will hurt the site at all, just jamming up the logs (which is annoying enough as it is).

    I fixed the warnings on the Github repo here, you can get the latest by clicking Download ZIP on the top right:

    https://github.com/joshcanhelp/proper-widgets

    If you can upload just the files to that same folder on the server for these two sites, that’s ideal since you won’t risk losing any data. Otherwise, you’ll have to delete the old one and upload/install this new one. I’m not sure if that will delete the widgets but I believe they’ll still be there when you get back. If you can test it on a staging site before down that, it might be best.

    Thread Starter WebHostingValdosta

    (@webhostingvaldosta)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Thank you – That was FAST!
    It works great – on (1) site uploaded files only – no issues kept data. Then on (2nd) site I deleted old folder and uploaded new folder – no issues kept data.

    No lag on page loading and the logs are not filling up – Nice!

    BTW – I did make a CSS change on both site (2 different themes) the widget Bullet (li) was causing a blank line then next line started display.

    Changed:

    .proper-widget li:before,
.proper-widget li:after {
  content: "";
  display: table;
}

    To:

    .proper-widget li:before,
.proper-widget li:after {
  content: ;
  display: table;
}

    and fixed issue – just encase anyone else runs into that.

    Plugin Author properwp

    (@properwp)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hey, I’m a pre-crastinator, what can I say 🙂

    Thanks for the CSS fix. That’s probably something in your theme CSS conflicting with the plugin but, when I release these fixes, I’ll take a look and make sure.

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