Trouble Downgrading Plugin

  • Resolved timkite

    (@timkite)


    5 years, 5 months ago

    I’m running into trouble downgrading this plugin from version 3.5 to 3.3. The reason is that versions after 3.3 require PHP 5.4+ and that’s not something we’re able to support at the moment (RHEL6 servers). I need to hold all sites at 3.3 until we can get them migrated to some servers that will support PHP 5.4 (a process we’re expecting to take about a year). We unfortunately didn’t catch the new PHP requirement until after the upgrade.

    After downgrade, I’m seeing errors like:

    PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in [site-path]/wp-content/plugins/redirection/models/match.php on line 72, referer: [page-url]

    I have no (good) way of reverting databases to previous backups at this point, since it seems site owners lived with this broken for a while before reporting. Thoughts?

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    5 years, 5 months ago

    The error looks like the plugin hasn’t been downgraded, and contains a file with PHP 5.4 code.

    Thread Starter timkite

    (@timkite)

    5 years, 5 months ago

    I would agree, which is strange since I did the downgrade via WP-CLI (which should replace all plugin files).

    Ultimately I got it working again by downgrading one step further to 3.2.1, which should work until I can get these sites all migrated to newer systems. This can be marked resolved.

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