Confirmation link is wrong (solved, LOL)

Hi,

I’m sorry you’re having trouble with the Post Notif-generated URLs.
To try to get to the root of the problem, I have a couple of questions for you.

First, are your plugins installed in the standard ../wp-content/plugins directory?

Second, which custom permalink setting are you using? Is it one of the “Common Settings” [on the Settings >> Permalinks page] or one you defined yourself? And, in either case, what does it make your posts’ URLs look like (please provide an example)?

Finally, if you have access to query your database directly, can you tell me what the option_value is for option_name = ‘permalink_structure’ in the options table?

Thanks,
Devon

You bet!

Thanks for the additional info.

I’ve been unable to recreate the issue you’re experiencing within my development environment (after switching to the custom permalink setting you specified everything still works as expected).

I assume you are testing this in a development environment of some sort that is not accessible to the open web, right (otherwise I’d just ask you to send me the URL to try to subscribe myself and debug from there)? Assuming that’s the case, would you please send me screenshots of both your Settings >> Permalinks page and an attempt to confirm a subscriber (so I can see the literal URL and the resulting 404 page)? My email address is my first name at devonostendorf dot com.

Thanks,
Devon

Hi,

I am not seeing a 404 page when I hit the confirmation link following my sign up. I see the confirmation page with “Post Notification Preferences” as the title but no additional content.

Would you please email me a screenshot of the Settings >> Post Notif page, specifically the Page Settings section (with the first 3 settings showing)?

Also, would you please confirm that in the post-notif/public/class-post-notif-public.php file, in the render_preferences_page function, there is a line (it should be line #429) that reads:

include( plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) . ‘views/post-notif-public-display-sub-prefs.php’ );

Additionally, would you please confirm that the post-notif/public/views/post-notif-public-display-sub-prefs.php file actually exists?

And finally, do you use a publicly-available theme (if so, which one?) or a custom one? This may well be the result of theme code interfering with the plugin. I did a significant amount of testing with various themes, as I was developing the initial release of Post Notif, but obviously did not test every single one! 🙂

Thanks,
Devon

Hi Mugsy,

The “fix” you refer to is, I believe, referring to this thread (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-confirmation-link), which resulted in the release of Post Notif v1.0.3.

I am guessing you are running v1.0.3 or 1.0.4 which means you shouldn’t be encountering what they were running into in the first place.

How are your permalinks configured? And does your .htaccess resemble that described on the Installation tab (https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-notif/installation/)?

Are you receiving a literal 404 error where your server does not find a page to render or is it a WordPress-themed “page not found”?

In either case, is the site you have the plugin installed available on the open web? If so, would you please send me the URL to the page containing the subscription widget so I can try it out myself?

If you don’t want to post the URL here you can send it to my email (my first name at devonostendorf dot com).

Thanks,
Devon