Ross Wintle

Hi Aaron,

OK, I think I’ve cooked up a version that will work for people experiencing this issue. It’s not as efficient at fetching Tweets as it does this “live” rather than as a background task, but it only refreshes Tweets every 5 minutes.

It can be invoked by changing your tlc_transient call in _getTweets to:

return tlc_transient( $key )
			->prevent_background()
			->expires_in( 300 ) // cache for 5 minutes
			->updates_with( array( $this, 'parseFeed' ), array( $widgetOptions ) )
			->get();

So all that’s left to do is include an option in your default settings meta box and then make the correct tlc_transient call depending on that option.

Are you happy with me zipping up what I’ve done so far and releasing to people who have this issue?

Aha. Found it.

A dodgy, network-enabled plugin. (AStickyPostOrderER)

Still not clear why this worked for older sites created before the upgrade.

Oh well.

Thanks for your help – much appreciated.

Hi,
Thanks for the response – sorry it’s taken a while to get back to you, I had to deal with some other things.

1) I did a table check and nothing was wrong.
2) It’s not happening on all subsites, just on the ones that are created after the WP upgrade.

I have found something different about the new sites: they don’t have entries in the wp_blog_versions table.

Is that a known issue?

Ah yes – the vital fact missing. They’re subfolders.

A quick follow up.

So the problem is that to load my “posts” using AJAX I make a call to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php and pass my action and parameters. I then use an action hook to produce my dynamic lists:

add_action('wp_ajax_load_resources', 'im_load_resources' );
add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_load_resources', 'im_load_resources' );

I’ve been playing with this and looking at the plugin code. It looks like this is happening because the frontend.php isn’t being loaded. The problem is with the plugin loading. In gd-star-rating.php there is a test that forks one way for admin requests and another way for non-admin requests:

if (!defined("WP_ADMIN") || (defined("WP_ADMIN") && !WP_ADMIN))

There must be other tests like this also as just changing this test was not sufficient to fix the problem. What I did was convince WordPress not to set WP_ADMIN for my specific call that I was making through admin-ajax.php. This helped, but I then also had to spit out a wp_head() with my AJAX response in order to allow the voting to work.

Obviously, I seem to be alone in making this request, but it would be really handy for me if I could use the plugin to at least render read-only ratings when making a call through /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

Thanks