New version 2.5.0

  • Plugin Author AntoineH

    (@antoineh)


    8 years ago

    Hi,

    I released version 2.5.0 of the plugin today. Biggest change is the score calculation that got a complete rewrite, but for all changes see the readme/change log.

    Before you decide to upgrade, I recommend doing a database and file backup of your current install. If anything goes wrong, either I messed up or the upgrade process is somehow stopped in the middle of the upgrade, then your data might get corrupted.

    As always, I tried to be backwards compatible, but it could be that certain parts of the code are different, some CSS classes have changed and/or hooks were removed or renamed.

    Anyway, for all the users that have experienced timeouts in the score calculation in the admin, I hope this new version will resolve this. At least it gives some more options to tweak the amount of calculations that are done in one run.

    Regards,
    Antoine

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  • Plugin Author AntoineH

    (@antoineh)

    8 years ago

    If you upgraded to the new version, but would like to downgrade to version 2.4.4 and you don’t have a database backup, follow these steps:

    1. Download previous version from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/football-pool.2.4.4.zip
    2. Open the file /data/install.txt from the zip in a text editor and replace the string “{$prefix}” with the string “pool_”+table prefix (on default install this would be “pool_wp_”.
    3. Run the script on the database. It only recreates the tables that were removed in the update. Existing tables will be left alone.
    4. Overwrite the files on your server with the files in the zip.
    5. Run the following SQL script on the database (assuming you have the default table prefix “wp_”): 
      6. UPDATE wp_options
SET option_value = REPLACE( option_value, '"db_version";s:5:"2.5.0"', '"db_version";s:5:"2.4.4"' )
WHERE option_name = 'footballpool_plugin_options'
    6. Open the wp-admin and do a full calculation.
    AmdiCarl

    (@amdicarl)

    8 years ago

    The full and Smart calculation was very useful. Please add it back to the new update!

    Plugin Author AntoineH

    (@antoineh)

    8 years ago

    The old calculation had two big problems: it could timeout easy on large databases and it showed incorrect data in a ranking during the calculation.

    To fix this I had to completely redo the way the calculation was done. And smart calculation is not possible in this new method. At least not in the way it used to work. I had to choose the lesser of two evils 🙂

    Smart calculation is useful for situations where a lot of custom rankings are defined and most of these rankings don’t have updates in their linked matches/questions. The new situation will calculate those as well and therefor the calculation will take longer than it used to in version 2.4.4. But if this does not apply or the calculation time is not that long, then you’re better of with the new version.

    If you want the smart calculation back, then you can downgrade to 2.4.4. And just ignore the 2.5.x versions.

    In a future version I may reconsider the smart calculation.

    pandalino

    (@pandalino)

    8 years ago

    Hi Antoine,
    unfortunately I landed on this very page AFTER I updated. And of course Murphy’s law kicked in. The update messed up the current installation. i.e. all pics seem to be deleted. (stadiums, flags, teams) I know, my fault.
    But I’d like to recoomend mentionig your above warnings as well as the update content in the wp plugin notice.

    I’d like to offer the coming Euro Cup 16 -Toto as a little gimmick to the vistiors of the page. Any idea how I could fix my problem efficiently?

    Thanks for your entire effort anyway. Seems to be a great plugin in spite of my dilemmea.

    Plugin Author AntoineH

    (@antoineh)

    8 years ago

    I added an upgrade notice in the readme file and WP used to show these, but you’re right, WP doesn’t show these anymore. But this page shows a workaround that I will implement in future version. Just to inform people that they should always backup their data.

    Plugin Author AntoineH

    (@antoineh)

    8 years ago

    I’d like to offer the coming Euro Cup 16 -Toto as a little gimmick to the vistiors of the page. Any idea how I could fix my problem efficiently?

    Not sure what your problem is, but please open a new topic if it is not already answered here.

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