Plugin causes theme editor to break

  • Resolved NeuroNootropic

    (@neuronootropic)


    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    This plugin is quite good but there’s an issue with it. I can’t use the theme editor in my WordPress dashboard when the plugin is active. Whenever I try to save my changes an error pop ups saying “Something went wrong. Your change may not have been saved. Please try again. There is also a chance that you may need to manually fix and upload the file over http://FTP.”

    Disabling the plugin Helpful is the only way to resolve the issue.

    I tested this on multiple sites and the result is the same.

    Please look into this. Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author Pixelbart

    (@pixelbart)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hi @neuronootropic !

    Thanks for your feedback. Do you have any more information? I can’t do much with the error message. Did WordPress send you an e-mail with further details?

    Many thanks again!

    Thread Starter NeuroNootropic

    (@neuronootropic)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks for replying.

    Yeah, so it appears that editing the stylesheet of a theme works. No issues saving it. That is, under the Theme Editor in the Appearance tab of the WordPress dashboard.

    But editing a php file doesn’t work. For example, anything I add to functions.php fails to save. It can be a comment line (//) and it won’t save. The loading icon with the spinning circle will keep moving until the error message above appears.

    No, I host WordPress on my DigitalOcean VPS so I don’t get any emails about errors.

    I’ve even tried disabling all plugins, including Helpful. And this allows me to save the files with no problem. But just enabling Helpful alone causes the error to occur.

    Can you try editing the stylesheet of a WordPress site and then the functions.php file? Does an error occur for you? I’m just wondering if it’s limited to me only.

    Plugin Author Pixelbart

    (@pixelbart)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    @neuronootropic

    Could you download the current trial version and see if the error still occurs?

    For me it works with the version now.

    Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience!

    https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/helpful.zip

    Thread Starter NeuroNootropic

    (@neuronootropic)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    @pixelbart

    Great! The trial version works now. What was the problem?

    Thanks for fixing it so fast. 🙂

    Plugin Author Pixelbart

    (@pixelbart)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    @neuronootropic

    I had used the hook “plugins_loaded”. Now I exchanged it with the “init” hook. Apparently the first hook was too early. But I wasn’t aware of it.

    You can leave the test version on it. You will still receive all updates in the future, at least as soon as your version 4.1.4 changes to 4.1.5.

    Thank you for your feedback! That makes Helpful even better! 🙂

    Thread Starter NeuroNootropic

    (@neuronootropic)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Awesome, good to know. Thanks for the excellent support. I left a review.

    Keep up the great work! 🙂

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