Keeps deactivating

Hi NuttyHiker,

The plugin will deactivate itself if you switch to a non-Genesis theme. Could this be what is happening?

In not, can you let me know what theme you are using and the version of Genesis you are using?

Thanks,
Nick

Hi Nick,

No, I am not switching themes. I am using the Pretty Chic Theme on Genesis 2.2.7.

Hmm this is very interesting. I have a test site setup with Pretty Chic running and the plugin activated. I will keep an eye on it and see if it deactivates the plugin, nothing yet. In doing a cursory look through the theme files, I cannot see anything that would cause this…

In the meantime, are there any other new plugins that you have installed recently? There may be some conflicts between this plugin and another one.

Sorry Nick, just seeing this. No, I did not install any new plugins. It started immediately doing it as soon as I installed the plugin. Thought it was just a glitch at first, but it kept doing it so I had to deactivate it.

Thanks for the update. Sorry about this. I have been unable to replicate the issue on my end.

I am having the same issue, using Showcase Pro. Happens at least once a week.

Good morning bamcclendon,

The plugin does contain a deactivation trigger if the theme is switched to a non-Genesis theme. This doesn’t seem to be the case, but could you have switched themes at all?

If not, the last thing I can think of is a conflict with another plugin. Can you provide me with a list of the plugins you are using on your site and I will setup a test site with Showcase Pro to see if I can replicate.

The test site I setup for NuttyHiker is still running and I have seen no deactivation issues so I am thinking this has to be a conflict with another plugin.

I appreciate the help. I would love to get this mystery solved.

Nick

Thanks for writing back so quickly, Nick.
Here’s a list. It’s happened at least twice today.

Inactive
Academic Blogger’s Toolkit
Akismet
Contact Form Maker
Contact Form Widget
Genesis Subpage Sidebar
Google Doc Embedder
Google Forms
Hello Dolly
Image Widget Deluxe
Kcite
MOJO Marketplace
Wordpress Carousel Free
WP Display Header
WP Pubmed Reflist

Active
Advanced Custom Fields
BE Subpages Widget
Carousel Horizontal Posts Content Slider
Contact Form Add
Custom Post Widget
Flexible Posts Widget
Genesis Club Lite
Genesis Featured Page Advanced
Genesis Responsive Slider
Genesis Simple Edits
Genesis Simple Hooks
Genesis Simple Menus
Genesis Visual Hook Guide
Image Widget
Inline Google Spreadsheet Viewer
Max Mega Menu
PHP Code Widget
Q2W3 Fixed Widget
Revolution Slider
Swifty Image Widget by WPGens
Tabs Responsive
Team Showcase
Widget Logic
WYSIWYG Widgets / Widget Blocks

Can I deactivate the deactivation trigger since I am using a genesis-based theme?

Good morning bamcclendon,

I just setup a test site with all the plugins you listed and am going to try and see what is causing GFPA to deactivate. In the meantime, you can delete the snippet of code that runs the deactivation.

To remove this piece of code, go to your Plugins page in the backend. Navigate to Genesis Featured Page Advanced and click on the little “Edit” button. On the following screen, scroll down in the text box until you find the following:

add_action( 'admin_init', 'fpa_deactivate_check' );
/**
 * This function runs on admin_init and checks to make sure Genesis is active, if not, it
 * deactivates the plugin. This is useful for when users switch to a non-Genesis themes.
 */
function fpa_deactivate_check() {
    if ( ! function_exists('genesis_pre') ) {
		deactivate_plugins( plugin_basename( __FILE__ ) ); // Deactivate plugin
    }
}

Delete all of this, and ONLY this. This is a temporary solution, but you “should” no longer have any deactivation issues. Please let me know either way though. If this solves it, then there is an issue with this deactivation trigger. If the plugin deactivates even after this, then something really bizarre is going on!

Nick

Thanks, Nick. I deleted a few plugins last night and no issues since. I’ll let you know. I did not comment out the deactivation code yet.

Deleted
Academic Blogger’s Toolkit
Contact Form Maker
Contact Form Widget
Google Doc Embedder
Google Forms
MOJO Marketplace
Wordpress Carousel Free

Inactive
Akismet
Genesis Club Lite
Genesis Subpage Sidebar
Hello Dolly
Image Widget Deluxe
Kcite
WP Display Header
WP Pubmed Reflist

Active
Advanced Custom Fields
BE Subpages Widget
Carousel Horizontal Posts Content Slider
Contact Form Add
Custom Post Widget
Flexible Posts Widget
Genesis Featured Page Advanced
Genesis Responsive Slider
Genesis Simple Edits
Genesis Simple Hooks
Genesis Simple Menus
Genesis Visual Hook Guide
Image Widget
Inline Google Spreadsheet Viewer
Max Mega Menu
PHP Code Widget
Q2W3 Fixed Widget
Revolution Slider
Swifty Image Widget by WPGens
Tabs Responsive
Team Showcase
Widget Logic
WYSIWYG Widgets / Widget Blocks

Happened again, so I deactivated the trigger.

Not a programmer, but could it be this?

function fpa_activation_check() {
$latest = ‘2.0’;
$theme_info = wp_get_theme( ‘genesis’ );

Does genesis have to be specifically 2.0?

Man….I am baffled. I thought it might have been that Mojo Marketplace plugin, but you deleted that so that can’t be it.

That 2.0 is for activation, and it basically says when you go and try to activate the plugin, Genesis needs to be version 2.0 or higher. If you tried to activate the plugin without Genesis, you would get an error message.

Now that the trigger is deactivated, if it happens again please let me know! At this point my only thought is that the trigger fails under certain rare circumstances. But if it deactivates while the trigger itself is deactivated, then something really fishy is going on.

I really appreciate your continual feedback on this!

Nick