Export doesn’t work, no data to export

Hi Kadir

Thanks for your message. Please try the following:

1) Check the settings page carefully to make sure you’re not filtering out the items you want.

2) Check your server settings. It could be that WP-CSV can’t create a file successfully.

Hope that helps. If not, then you may need to try a different plugin, as I don’t currently have time to maintain or fully support this one for free.

Best wishes

Paul

I have also found this with the latest WordPress 4.0 Beta 3, but am ahead of myself and will wait until WP 4 is launched.

Hi Murrayac

Sorry if it doesn’t work for you. Unfortunately I don’t have time to test on betas (or anything else), as you may have read.

I know it works on my test server though, and someone hired me during the week to troubleshoot another issue, so I know it works on their test server as of a few days ago.

So, my advice to Kadir may apply to you. You should check your server config. Make sure there are no errors in your logs, etc, and nothing to stop the web user writing files to disk.

If you can give me a clue of some sort (like an error message) I may be able to help. Otherwise, you may need to try another plugin.

Best wishes

Paul

Hey Paul,

Thanks for your effort in this plugin. I activated debugging in WordPress and it came up with this. I’m not sure where the server config files are.

Notice: wpdb::escape is deprecated since version 3.6! Use wpdb::prepare() or esc_sql() instead. in /Applications/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3206
Warning: mkdir(): Permission denied in /Applications/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wp-csv/wp-csv.php on line 156
Notice: Undefined index: imagefolder in /Applications/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wp-csv/wp-csv.php on line 174
Notice: Undefined index: csv_path in /Applications/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wp-csv/wp-csv.php on line 185
Warning: mkdir(): Permission denied in /Applications/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wp-csv/wp-csv.php on line 156
Warning: mysql_query() expects parameter 2 to be resource, object given in /Applications/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wp-csv/CPK_WPCSV_Posts_Model.php on line 24
Notice: Undefined variable: error in /Applications/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wp-csv/wp-csv.php on line 240

Hi Murrayac

The Warning: mkdir…Permission denied… error means that the plugin doesn’t have permission to create folders (and probably won’t be able to create files either). You should talk to whoever administers your server about that.

Hopefully, the mysql_query issue will go away too once the other issues are resolved, but if not let me know.

Best wishes

Paul

Hi Murrayac,

Did you ever get this resolved? I’ve got the same issue. Can you tell me where the csv file gets written so I can check permissions there? thx

Hey Apdobaj,

Changing the permissions worked for my localhost. I used this tutorial:

https://takumahabu.com/?p=398

cd /Volumes/SSD/Applications/wordpress/apps/wordpress/htdocs
sudo find ./ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo find ./ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

sudo cd /Volumes/SSD/Applications/wordpress/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content
chown -R USERNAME:Webmaster

Since I’m using Bitnami I changed the path to suit.

Hi All

Permissions issues seemed to be the biggest problem for users, so I’ve made a small fix to 1) improve the plugin’s capability to resolve the issue automatically, and 2) give a much more informative error message when human intervention is required, as it probably was above.

Best wishes

Paul

Great work Paul ??