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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: The site is experiencing technical difficulties.Ask the system administrator.
One site to test this sort of thing thinks it’s running Apache with PHP 5.6.28 on the Solaris operating system, but can’t tell more.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: The site is experiencing technical difficulties.@aoking The rollback ‘solutions’ on that page either involve installing a new plugin (may well not work, if updating them isn’t) or some fairly detailed manual deletion and installation of files with Horrible Consequences if you get it wrong.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: The site is experiencing technical difficulties.@athinamj Is your server running a 32-bit version of the operating system / PHP?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Updating themes fails after 5.2 installed.. which appears to be the end of code to multiply a 64-bit integer.
It does beg the question of why anything in a theme update needs to do that.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Updating themes fails after 5.2 installedWhat’s in the webserver’s error log is variations of this:
[Wed May 08 14:55:36.159261 2019] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 27002:tid 2923363136] [client 1.2.3.4:54280] AH01071: Got error ‘PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/user/public_html/example/wp-includes/sodium_compat/src/Core32/Int64.php on line 274\n’, referer: https://example.com/wp-admin/update-core.php?action=do-theme-upgrade
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Updating themes fails after 5.2 installedTwo sites, on two separate servers.
What versions of what software is your server running?
I note that 5.2’s site health feature cannot accurately and reliably detect the PHP gd module, so it would not amaze me if there is some other aspect of server settings that it can’t cope with.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: End of life for the Classic Editor: two years?I do not want this to be taken over as a ‘why it’s wrong to put Gutenberg into core and make it the default’ debate: everyone’s position on this is fixed. I wanted to know how long there was an alternative and I am very happy that it’s longer than it seemed.
ClassicPress is already taken as a name for ‘WordPress without Gutenberg’ of course…
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: End of life for the Classic Editor: two years?I don’t want to reopen the ‘we know better than our users’ debate, but the need for an alternative to Gutenberg is not going to go away.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: End of life for the Classic Editor: two years?So when the release page (https://wordpress.org/download/releases/) says “None of these are safe to use, except the latest in the 5.0 series, which is actively maintained”, it’s wrong?
Ditto the codex saying (https://codex.wordpress.org/Supported_Versions) “The only current officially supported version is WordPress 5.0. Previous major releases before this may or may not get security updates as serious exploits are discovered”?
I asked about this back in the middle of 2015 (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-versions-are-supported-and-for-how-long/) when the official answer was to confirm those statements, apart from the then current version being different.
If the policy has changed and it’s official that 4.9x will continue to get all necessary security patches, it might be good to drop the scary language and make that clear…
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Disable Gutenberg] I’m not saying anything fishy is happening..Thank YOU!
What I particularly like about it is that it’s possible to hide the menu items so you can install this on clients’ sites with less risk that they will turn it off.
(And then start with the support calls because everything doesn’t work and it’s so slow and..)
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Gutenberg] An Obvious Idea that Seems to have Been Overlooked?Given that only just over 60% of WP installations are running any version of WP 4.9 – see the stats – it is obvious to me that they’re not going to get more than that for a while.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Gutenberg] An Obvious Idea that Seems to have Been Overlooked?There will doubtless be some people for whom Gutenberg is great. I suspect most of them will not have fast computers to make it appear a quick editor, but rather they will have a slow typing speed.
One of the problems with WordPress is that Automattic’s basic response to feature requests is “install a plugin”, except when it comes to adding a pile of bloatware like Gutenberg.
Why doing so is considered more important than fixing some of WordPress’s security issues in core, I don’t know, but..
.. stop repeated login failures from a single IP address – “install a plugin”
.. have an option to limit how insecure a password can be – “install a plugin”
.. an end to the horrendous “let’s allow over a hundred login attempts in a single request, despite them having different username/password combinations” xmlrpc ‘feature’ – “install a plugin”
.. disable a slow editor that breaks things – “We .. are looking at solutions ranging from a plugin to disable Gutenberg..”
Personally, I would much much much rather Gutenberg stayed a plugin we could install if we wanted – it could be one of the ‘gosh, they’re virtually all Automattic ones’ WordPress plugs without mentioning that (often better) alternatives are available when you go to the ‘Add new’ plugin page.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: 4.9.6 not updating automaticallyStill not seeing it happening here.
Is delaying automatic updates a new thing or has this always happened since they were finally introduced and I’ve not noticed?
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Gutenberg] An addition, not a replacementIt would still be better as a plugin. Why force me to have twenty copies of the code on the server when it’s not going to be used?
At the moment WP has a ‘disable visual editor’ option in the user settings – that should be a clue as to how welcome this will be as core.
Oh, another issue is that it feels like a lot of work is being done in the browser. Certainly using this was very s..l..o..w.. when I was short of memory at this end and tabs were running slowly.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Gutenberg] Please Do Not include this in Core – Put it in JetPackBecause it’s not like JetPack isn’t already bloated.. oh wait.