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WordPress plugin providing an all-in-one solution for effective academic blogging.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/academic-bloggers-toolkit/
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5.1.0 breaks admin section with 500 errors #538

Closed alfalfa31 closed 5 years ago

alfalfa31 commented 5 years ago

ABT Version:

5.1.0

PHP Version:

7.1

Theme:

WordPress 5.0.3 running Famita Child (1.0) theme feeding Famita 1.3. also WordPress 5.0.3 running Newspaper Version: 9.2.2.

Plugin List: Add From Server Akismet Classic Editor Contact Form 7 Envato Market FAQ WD Jetpack kk Star Ratings Loginizer MailChimp for WordPress mb.miniAudioPlayer NextScripts: SNAP Pro Upgrade Helper NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions PDF Embedder Printful Integration for WooCommerce Slider Revolution Sunny URL Shortener Visual Composer - Post Accordion WooCommerce WooCommerce Blocks WooCommerce Services WordPress Importer WP-Polls WPBakery Page Builder

Expected behavior:

Log in to the backend and see the dashboard

Actual behavior:

500 error

The PHP version for the sites in question is PHP 7.1 and in each case, the only plugin which causes the problem is this one. I have combed through the logs but there's nothing useful that I can see. Suffice it to say, the 5.1.0 version breaks the admin side of the site. The client-facing side seems to be fine.

Console messages:


// Paste messages here

<no JS output>

_________________

500 error logs pertinent to this issue

81.171.97.164 - - [30/Jan/2019:11:35:05 -0500] "GET /wp-admin/ HTTP/1.1" 500 0 "https://cbdand.co/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fcbdand.co%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.81 Safari/537.36"
cwbullet commented 5 years ago

I am having the same issue:

Common plugins: Akismet Classic Editor Contact Form 7 Envato Market Jetpack Visual Composer - Post Accordion

I disabled and deleted it but now I cannot activate it.

dsifford commented 5 years ago

Looks like it has something to do with how I attempt to salvage user "custom CSS" by turfing it into the customizer.

I'm just gonna delete that and users who have custom CSS will just have to rewrite it. Not worth the effort to debug.

cwbullet commented 5 years ago

Did you ever remove it? The error is still there.

cwbullet commented 5 years ago

Removed it and tried to reinstall and I get " Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{', expecting identifier (T_STRING) in /home/xxxxxxxxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/academic-bloggers-toolkit/academic-bloggers-toolkit.php on line 29"

alfalfa31 commented 5 years ago

You could try deleting the plugin and reinstalling it.

dsifford commented 5 years ago

@cwbullet I am willing to bet you aren't running PHP version >= 7.0. If that's the case, which I'm nearly certain it is, your solution is to upgrade your server's PHP. Any version < 7.0 is no longer maintained even by PHP itself, which means that just having your server run is a gigantic security risk.

Because I work on this plugin in my spare time and make zero money for my efforts, I have no interest in supporting old outdated versions of PHP.

cwbullet commented 5 years ago

Thank, that worked. My server was saying PHP 7.2, but it was only 5.6. Thank you very much.

dsifford commented 5 years ago

Awesome. Glad to hear it!