Great Plugin But…

Updated to 3.9.1. Unless I’m mistaken, your version was already at 3.9 but it just couldn’t be activated. After this new version, it should be ok. I extensively tested the new version, but I have a limited number of environment for running my tests.

It remains a mystery to me why you could use the debug file but when updating the update process got stuck because it couldn’t find a debug file. But I can’t replicate the behaviour on wordpress.com, since I haven’t a paid account that would allow me to install plugins.

Some technical info:
1/ The debug file will be written under the WP standard name (wp-content/debug.log) or if it fails inside the plugin folder. But this is probably useless info. No consequences for you.
2/ More usefull info is the process for creating the cache folder. Lumière first attempts to create it in the WP standard folder (wp-content/cache/). If it fails, the cache will be created inside the plugin’s folder (wp-content/plugins/lumiere-movies/cache). It is a suboptimal solution, since the cache will be deleted at every plugin’s update.
3/ However, should you find a less secured folder (I still don’t understand why wordpress.com doesn’t allow to write cache in wp-content/cache… it’s their standard!), you could use it. Just change the cache folder path in “cache management – manage cache” in WP admin options (after the pictures of your cache). So this way you can use a more appropriate location to save your cache and when Lumière is updated it will not delete the cache.

Hope these solutions can work for you in your environment. I should check how the mainstream cache plugins proceed in writing their cache, but that’s thousands of lines of code and I’m quite busy atm.

Thanks a lot for reporting your issues, in doing so you helped my plugin to be more versatile. Should you have any further problem, please don’t hesitate to report it!

I’m still getting errors ??

But, some good news from wordpress:

As a side note, if the plugin author wants to test their plugin on WordPress.com and find out how to adapt it to our platform, they can reach out to us at https://wordpress.com/support/developers/

I used the form.

What error do you get?

Just the same

`[INFO] [Lumiere][config][cachefolder] Alternative cache folder /srv/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/lumiere-movies/cache created.
[INFO] [Lumiere][config][cachefolder] Alternative cache image folder /srv/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/lumiere-movies/cache/images created.
[Lumière options] Array ( [imdbplugindirectory_partial] => /wp-content/plugins/lumiere-movies/ [imdbpluginpath] => /srv/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/lumiere-movies/ [imdburlpopups] => /lumiere/ [imdbkeepsettings] => 1 [imdburlstringtaxo] => lumiere- [imdbcoversize] => 1 [imdbcoversizewidth] => 300 [imdbmaxresults] => 10 [imdbpopuptheme] => lightgrey [imdbpopuplarg] => 540 [imdbpopuplong] => 350 [imdbintotheposttheme] => grey [imdblinkingkill] => 0 [imdbautopostwidget] => 0 [imdblanguage] => en [imdbdebug] => 1 [imdbdebuglog] => 1 [imdbdebuglogpath] => /wordpress/core/6.0.1/wp-content/debug.log [imdbdebuglevel] => DEBUG [imdbdebugscreen] => 1 [imdbwordpress_bigmenu] => 0 [imdbwordpress_tooladminmenu] => 1 [imdbpopup_modal_window] => classic [imdbtaxonomy] => 1 [imdbHowManyUpdates] => 12 [imdbseriemovies] => movies+series [imdbplugindirectory] => https://cinetvstream.news/wp-content/plugins/lumiere-movies/ [options_general_check] => 8dfe62edb6 [_wp_http_referer] => /wp-admin/admin.php?page=lumiere_options&generaloption=advanced ) [/Lumière options]`

But doing a search gets this:

[CRITICAL] [Cache] Configured cache directory [/wordpress/core/6.1//srv/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/lumiere-movies/cache] does not exist!
There has been a critical error on this website.

So it’s better: you actually can activate the plugin now!
1/ since the paths are different (first and last lines) I suspect an issue related to wordpress multisites. I can’t test such environment, but I’m waiting on wordpress response for the allowing me to test my plugin on wordpress.com
2/ Can you try to disable the cache?

I tried, no difference.

But wp.com did get back to me and said:

If they want, they can also try contacting us at https://wordpress.com/help/contact and mention the ticket number 5667230-zen so my colleagues know it’s related to your situation in this thread.

So, we may yet get to the bottom of this and your plugin will work on both .org and .com

And they also said this

grant them access to WordPress.com Business Plan so they can test their plugin and see how they can adapt it to work with WordPress.com environment.

I think I found a working solution.

I’m waiting on wp.com to give me a business account, I was already talking to them. As soon as I tested if my fix works, will release a new version.

Sounds promising JCV ??

Done. I took advantage of fixing a few more bugs that happen on wp.com environment.

Important: you probably will have to change manually the cache path. Make sure you put something like “/cache/lumiere/”. Trailing slashes are important. Once you change it, cache will work.
(Technical note, for people who will read this thread: the selected folder will always be located into “wp-content”)

Upon your confirmation, I will close the thread.

*Happy Sigh*

Working now my friend.

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Thank You so much.

I’m very glad to know it works!

Thanks my friend for your gift, very appreciated.

Should you face any issue, don’t hesitate to report back here!

Cheers

Hi,

Just one quick question.

How do I use the Widget? I cannot find it in my list of Widgets to put in the menu.

Hi Stephen,

For the sake of clarity, could you open a new thread?

Please provide the theme you use in the message and whether you see “widget unactivated” near “Data management” (top line of options in any Lumière options page) in Lumière admin options.

No problem ??