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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Shiftee Basic - Employee and Staff Scheduling] Slowdowns – Blank PagesProblem solved.
Stopped using it.
Couldn’t get any answers. Not switching themes. Everything else works and its the theme we want to use.Is there some reason you think you deserve a better rating? You didn’t solve the problem. You wanted to get into our system and poke around when the issue was not there at all, but with the fact that wp-cron won’t run on time if there’s little to no activity.
Nuff Sed!!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Backup CreationOne suggestion has been to make another cron event that triggers the system to make the backups run. How often does this event need to happen in order to have backups work?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Backup CreationThank you.
Needed is a backup plugin that doesn’t depend on website traffic?
Did some homework and found this before this thread was created:
“If there is no traffic on your website no process will be started. This means no planned posts, no system updates, no pingbacks and no other sheduled processes are triggerd. There will be no cron function at all.” Duh!!? Huh?!This is why the question. In their present forms none of the automated backups can work unless there is other traffic. The backups, like in most normal companies, need to be run at night, unattended, when there is minimal or no traffic.
Been backing up manually. Needing automation.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Backup CreationNot on dedicated server.
Tried that plugin. It kept hanging. Tried several more. All hung up and did not produce usable backups, just lots of lost time waiting with site locked up. While they were running the site became unusable, frozen. One “support” said it depends on whether or not there is traffic to the site – Huh!? Looking for one that works as scheduled, whether or not there is traffic.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Backup CreationThank you but we are looking for a site or desktop based solution for backups.
It has NOT been fixed!!! It may work for some, but not here. Bottom line!
These policy issues are not all mine. It comes down from owners and accounting, who don’t allow many choices, and are legitimate and relative to this thread and problem, as well as others – This issue has to be started somewhere and the thread was not “hijacked” to do it – Our responses are relative to this subject as well as any other software anywhere, that does not work out of the box for us (irrelevant to whomever and wherever else it did), and cost the companies time and money they can show accounting, is wasted. This is normal when you get executives and accountants involved in anything.
There are more than three ways forward also.
What we have now is now a now KNOWN bug. There is the request here to do away with the long waits and any other issues. All we want is a working products out of the box.
The higher ups liked the program. They chose it.Nuff sed!!
- This reply was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by bbhank.
For me and others who experienced this without solution, the plugin does NOT work out of the box. I have a lot of plugins and have been through this many times. I use the same philosophy for my personal sites as the companies for whom I webmaster and develop – If it doesn’t work out of the box, move on. Nobody has time to debug someone elses product for them. We are happy to buy, pay premiums, for products that are working out of the box, or can be made to work in short order when there are problems. We work with too many different plugins. We don’t disable our other plugins to get any ONE plug in to work when they all already work together. We aren’t in the business of fixing what’s not broken. That’s not cost effective. We don’t allow automatic upgrades because of these issues. We are in the process of major upgrades already because of the new versions of HTML, WordPress, and WooCommerce and have had lots of problems. All clients decided not to fool with any products that didn’t work as stated and/or required out of the box due to budget/time considerations. These are bottom line realities. At the same time, we do rate products, and those that don’t work out of the box don’t get good ratings.
Your plugin shows potential so please fix it. We would be very interested but we’re not in the business of fixing other folks software. While it is true that it may be something in our environment that’s causing the problem, that’s not the issue. We have twenty(!) plugins on each site that are working fine together. The policy is not to break those to get one working.
We like a lot about your program. That’s why the time was even spent to comment and no rating has been given. We are also working against the policies that always say “something in your particular environment that is not compatible”. While this is very (But not absolutely) true, from the customer end, what we see is from the bottom up, and not the same. Gauchely put, a lot of us just don’t care! It’s harsh but it’s time somebody stepped up and told it like it is. We’re looking to get more back to the customer being “right”. That’s been sidestepped in computer software period. Time for a change.And thank you for the great feedback. Not everybody has reacted with such positivism. If you get that fixed on your end, please let us know.
No time. I’ve moved on and trying other plugins. Unless there is an immediate and working solution, I don’t have the time to debug your program for you. There are a lot of programs out there. Too many to spend time on one that doesn’t work.
I do rate these plugins and don’t give ones that don’t work out of the box good ratings at all. I can back up manually without the hassle.
When you get these issues solved, please post to the forum that the plugin works – Out of the box.I use GoDaddy and background processes are permitted. It takes too long to access host and wait for answers. Lost too much time already. I have SSH access and I don’t use command lines. The plug needs to work with normal execution times used by major providers like GoDaddy – Out of the Box, instead of having users/potential buyers, going through all this. In this condition, the plugin is Crippleware. I’m not the only person who tried this and had this same problem over time, without workable solution.
Tried default first, then 25, 30, 300, and several more. All gave same result. Tried on WordPress 4.6 and 4.8 with same result – long waits, no archive, a lot of trash left.
Thanks for fast reply but so far no go.
And yes, it is VERY frustrating. The 5 minute wait, or any wait, that does not produce, needs elimination. It made over 2 gigs of files in trying to back up half a gig, while failing to produce usable backup, then did not clean up after itself – I had to go in and delete the mess. There is too much time wasted in wait times, then failure. This makes for a big thumbs down.Running for over 8800 seconds – still 81% – 21 attempts at Trying to create backup archive without success – “WARNING: Job restarts due to inactivity for more than 5 minutes” – At least 5 minute wait time between each error.
Log: [21-Jun-2017 19:25:54] WARNING: Job restarts due to inactivity for more than 5 minutes.
[21-Jun-2017 19:25:54] 19. Trying to create backup archive …All it gives is continuous string of this. No matter what the configuration, plug in gave this same result. Started with defaults, out of the box, not working. Tried all settings suggested in forums. Have not gotten one finished, usable, archive.
WP 4.8
None of this worked.Issue is the 5 minute wait instead of immediate continuation, and with restart instead of continue.
How do we get it to make one archive and if the transfer stops at any point, have it continue with the same archive instead of starting from scratch.
Instead of having all those files and not deleting them after use, use just one.
I set the tries to a higher number and let it run. It gets to 80% and sticks. I have high speed internet. I am on other websites with normal wait times. After nearly 2 hours it only moved 1%. It has created over a gig of files in the backup directory without ever finishing one archive.
Who wants to buy premium version if free version doesn’t work? Looks like “Crippleware”. Doesn’t get high scores on review like this.
- This reply was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by bbhank.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [UPS WooCommerce Shipping Method Plugin] Is not working with Woocommerce 3.0OK. Looks like not all the products have weight entered.
When I first installed the plugins, the shipping selector came up without having to calculate according to zip code. That’s how I’d like to see it again. And is there a way to prevent customer from checking out until shipping is added? This needs to be required when there is no free or flat rate shipping.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [UPS WooCommerce Shipping Method Plugin] Is not working with Woocommerce 3.0Already have 1.2.2 and it still does not work as before.