500 error on media lib today

Thanks for your report – I regret the trouble you’re having with some interaction between MLA and your WordPress Media/Library admin screens.

I am not able to reproduce this problem on my test system running MLA v2.22 and WP 4.4.1. Any additional information you can give me would be helpful.

Do you have access to your server’s error log? There might be one or more messages there that would shed light on the problem.

Did this start just after an upgrade of MLA or WordPress? Some other plugin perhaps?

As you may know, the WordPress Media/Library submenu has two modes, “list” and “grid”. Which mode are you using? If you switch modes (by clicking the icons to the left of the “All Media Items” dropdown) does the problem go away?

It’s possible that a third plugin or other component is involved. Are there other active plugins that provide Media Library features?

Thanks for your understanding and patience, and for any additional details you can provide.

Thanks for your update with the additional information.

You wrote “I click the ML link … ” I would like to suggest the following experiment:

1. Deactivate MLA
2. Click the Media/Library submenu link
3. Note which mode you are using. The grid view will look like the Media Manager Modal (popup) Window you see when you click “Add Media” for a post/page. The list view will look more like the tabular display MLA provides.
4. Switch to the other mode using the icons to the left of the “All Media Items” dropdown.
5. Activate MLA
6. Click the Media/Library submenu link
7. Does the problem go away, i.e., is it mode-specific?

I downloaded the log file you posted a link to, but I am unable to extract anything from the archive file. I am on a Windows Seven platform and WinZip complains that it is not a valid archive format.

You can get easy access to the error log by activating the Settings/Media Library Assistant Debug tab. To do that, add this line to your wp-config.php file, just above the “That’s all …” comment:

/*
 * Media Library Assistant debug options
 */
define( 'MLA_DEBUG_LEVEL', 1 );

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

Once that’s done you should see the Settings/Media Library Assistant Debug tab, and you can use it to view, download and reset (empty) the error log. If you have any problems with that, let me know. If you can download the log in text format and post a link to that it would be most helpful.

Sorry – wrong link in my last post! Please see this Admin Columns support topic for the current status and workaround:

New HTTP 500 errors for Media Library

Let me know if this problem applies to you and if the new Development Version works for you. Thanks again for your help.

Thanks for confirming that the Development Version solved your problem, which did not have anything to do with WordPress core functionality.

A new release of Admin Columns (2.4.9) contained some unexpected changes that caused fatal PHP errors in any other plugin that used the Admin Columns CPAC_Storage_Model to use their features.

I will make a new MLA release shortly so everyone gets the fixes I made automatically. Thanks again for your help in reporting the problem and testing the solution.

I hope to make a release of MLA v2.23 this evening (1/23/2016). In the interim you can use the Development Version, revert Admin Columns to 2.4.8 or disable either plugin. Thanks for your kind words and your patience.