Title: Error while check the updates
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Error while check the updates

 *  [patricy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patricy/)
 * (@patricy)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-while-check-the-updates/)
 * I’v got PHP warnings during every plugins update check because of your plugin.
   Actually, updating plugins was break.
 * Your plugin contain the line “Author name: David Stöckl”
 * In wp-includes/update.php in line 266 WP takes plugins list array and generating
   API request json line:
    `'plugins' => json_encode( $to_send )` but json_encode
   return false (error JSON_ERROR_UTF8 – “Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly
   encoded”) because of your author name string. Json_encode function return just“
   false” and do not throw json encoding error in log. Its possible to see if you
   put json_last_error() after encoding. (i think this is related [https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47494](https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47494))
   So, wp update module sending empty string to API for plugins check and receive
   error for sure.
 * I gonna post bug report to wp team (to ask them check json_encode result with
   get_last_json_error before sending, but I’d like to recommend you change the 
   name of plugin’s author to latin characters, it will prevent some hidden errors
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-and-tinymce-advanced-professsional-formats-and-styles/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-and-tinymce-advanced-professsional-formats-and-styles/)

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 *  [KTS915](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kts915/)
 * (@kts915)
 * [11 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-while-check-the-updates/#post-5084939)
 * Thanks for posting this! This turns out to be the cause of my site’s not getting
   notifications of plugin updates. I have changed the author’s name to `Stoeckl`
   and now the notifications work again!
 *  [tdmalone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tdmalone/)
 * (@tdmalone)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-while-check-the-updates/#post-5084980)
 * Just tracked down an issue on my local server to this plugin as well. Also changing
   author’s name. Thanks for the heads up!

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 * Last reply from: [tdmalone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tdmalone/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-while-check-the-updates/#post-5084980)
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