Jason Emanuelson
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Sounds like we are in the same boat with updates. Just wish there was a better way to handle all of this.
One thing of note, it would have been nice to have some sort of alert to tell me that plugin was out of date. As you probably saw as well, nothing said it needed and update or was out of date. Might the Easy Updates plugin be able to help identify issues like this?
I am going to step away for a bit today. My frustration is clouding things.
Why did it not report the old plugin in the past? I watch the updates regularly.
it is so frustrating to when devs only look at perfect world scenarios. We don’t live in labs running bleeding edges of everything.
Case study: Municipality website updates to the latest WordPress version that came out that same day. All the sudden, half a dozen plugins break and we’re fielding hundreds of calls. Because release is new, plugin devs are not sure and will get back to us. Couple days go by and we finally hear back to update their plugin to their just posted latest version. In the meantime, we have taken hundreds of calls, had our reputation called into question because the site has issues, all because people have to have the newest.
But…
By waiting a couple weeks for WordPress, theme and plugin developers to catch up to the latest releases in the wild, we generally avoid those issues.
I am sorry, but while it sounds great to be latest and greatest every single minute of every days is awesome in theory, a lot of us on the front lines are tired of getting burned.
And in fairness, I am sure as support professionals, you are on the front lines as well and want to control as much as possible to ensure good service like we do.
I just have to wonder if there is a better way that is more dynamic and versatile to the best outcomes for both? We’ve been asked to use the Easy Updates plugin. Why can’t it figure out which is the best version, based upon what WP version is running? Wouldn’t that help to solve the cause before it even would become a problem?
This reply has been marked as private.This reply has been marked as private.This reply has been marked as private.This reply has been marked as private.Hey Stiofan,
I thought I had already replied, but thank you. Installed. Waiting to see if it resolves the spamming issue. Thank you for the help.
-jasonThis is why I believe that every single form submitted should have an ip address, even if obscured in the header.
Were you able to somehow place an ip address in the form notification?
This reply has been marked as private.Good day Laurence.
I think I am confused. I already installed the GD reCaptcha plug-in, but it still was appearing to let through masses of spam. Had to eventually shut off mailing altogether to get it to stop.
Are you referring to something I should be doing with the plug-in beyond what is normally done?
I have added this function (below) to try to grab a user’s ip address, and then added the [show_ip] shortcode within the Send Email to Friend and Email Enquiry options. It does not parse the shortcode. Is there another way to achieve this, as the spam continues to flow and reCaptcha is not slowing it, nor is css’ing it out working (did not figure that would work, but tried).
// Display User IP in WordPress
function get_the_user_ip() {
if ( ! empty( $_SERVER[‘HTTP_CLIENT_IP’] ) ) {
//check ip from share internet
$ip = $_SERVER[‘HTTP_CLIENT_IP’];
} elseif ( ! empty( $_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR’] ) ) {
//to check ip is pass from proxy
$ip = $_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR’];
} else {
$ip = $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’];
}
return apply_filters( ‘wpb_get_ip’, $ip );
}add_shortcode(‘show_ip’, ‘get_the_user_ip’);
Can this be added to the feature requests? When you have sites that are deep and GD is not the primary function, it just makes for unnecessary page congestion at the root level.
