couldn't connect to host

Hi Poof99,

It’s not going to prevent you from publishing new announcements, but all of your announcements will have the same icon (or no icon at all).

If it’s stating ‘Couldn’t connect to host’ it means that your site couldn’t retrieve the necessary Font Awesome files from the CDN. Most likely because file_get_contents is disabled on your site. You may want to check, it should be enabled to prevent the error from appearing.

Evan

OK, thanks. the other troubling thing is that I don’t see a save/update button when trying to save my new announcement:

I get three fields for content;
announcement title
announcement color
anouncement icon

that is all. Did I install properly?

BTW I inserted the [timeline-express] shortcode into my page but in view page it does not show “no new announcement”

You could have a javsascript error on your site which is preventing the timeline from displaying on the front end. I would get the file_get_contents error cleared up and we can work from there

We are having a similar issue on our site, next to the announcement icon it displays…

Received HTTP code 403 from proxy after CONNECT

There is nothing else under this. We’ve had issues in the past with our firewall blocking connections and have to put a rule in for each one we need. What exactly is this trying to connect to? If it’s a CDN I assume it won’t be static?

Latest WP version BTW

As mentioned above, the issue is directly related to your host provider and some limitations they have set. You may want to reach out to them and ask them how you can go about resolving the issue, because the icons won’t be visible until they can be properly retrieved from the CDN.

Thanks,
Evan

Yeah I get that, what I was asking is if you have any references to the CDN, or is it something I can get from them directly.

Thanks

Full disclosure, we are test developing the word press site on a internal network where I access through VPN. Could this be my issue.
Because of this, is that the reason why I cannot save any new announcements?

Poof99, that sounds like it would be the cause. The VPN could be preventing access to external files using file_get_contents().

Timedudley76, I’m not sure what you mean by any references to the CDN. If you mean what CDN are we using to enqueue the font awesome files, that would be:

https://cdnjs.com/libraries/font-awesome

We have built a custom function to pull the contents of the CSS file and build a dropdown. I don’t think manually enqueueing the CSS file will do any good.

Evan

That’s great thanks!