Multisite: DB Error and Backend Broken

Hi, sorry for the slow reply. I am a bit tied up currently, at least till the end of the week.

I will take a look at this. The install had some changes, that weren’t tested on MS.
Just in case, the mysql user does have all the appropriate permissions to create new tables?

The other bug…
Could you check if you have an error on your console? You can check with the Inspector of your browser.

Hi, I tried different scenarios, and everytime everything works in my setup.

These are my scenarios:
– Do a Network Activate in network-admin. Creates all the tables and the gwolle_gb_version option in all sites.
– Activate on a single install. First activation creates all the tables and the gwolle_gb_version option in all sites.

Did you maybe have a previous activation of this plugin, from an old version?

I do suspect your mysql user doesn’t have all rights granted.

Hi, Marcel!

Thank you for looking into this at the time. I did try a lot of things then myself, including manually creating the missing SQL-tables. (And, No, there was no permissions problem. My hosting provider is quite liberal in this regard.) I gave up for the time being, when all I did was to no avail.

It seems, though, you have been quite busy coding meanwhile.

I just now happened to give your plugin another try, and I’m glad to be able to report that, voila, all of a sudden, without me having done anything additionally in the meantime that could have affected this, Gwolle Guestbook actually works!

So, thank you very much for whatever it may be that you did, but you did it!

Now, if this translate.www.remarpro.com Glot-thing wasn’t such a pain, I’d be glad to contribute to the missing portions of the German (Formal) translation, which I’m just now about to finish. But I’m afraid I can’t bring myself to type in manually 497 lines of text, when uploading a pair of .po/.mo-files from Poedit Pro would take just a few seconds. (I don’t know how come these last ten years or so modern must always mean less usable…) Do you know of any way to get text into translate.www.remarpro.com without so much trouble?

Hi, not sure what is different between then and now. It might be that some things have changed, but not the main gist.
I was under the assumption that some site-admin might have clicked on the Uninstall button, where it removes the db-tables of that site. So I don’t offer an uninstall option on Multisite anymore (it was breaking anyway). On multisite uninstall should be done with a filter, which uninstalls on all sites.

About translations, I can request that you become PTE (validator) for de_DE (both). That way I think you can import from a PO-file. Please tell me if you want me to put up a request like that.

Hi!

not sure what is different between then and now.

I’m not surprised, really, that you don’t know what you did that makes it work now.
I can certainly relate to that. In software development sometimes funny things happen. In my (since long by-gone) times as active developer (of some fringe PHP CMS) it sometimes happened that, when people requested features, it turned out they were already there, unbeknownst even to core devs. All it took was to point out the steps necessary to use those features.
— But I digress.

I was under the assumption that some site-admin …

There are none besides me. And, as I implied, it just wouldn’t install correctly, and even after I set up tables manually, the UI was completely dysfunctional for no apparent reason.

But in the end what counts is that it does work now. Just please do not make it not work again! ??

About translations: Well, I’d say: go for it! (Lest I change my mind.) ??

I should just add this teeny “word of warning”:
The language style I’m aiming at is none-too-modern. I’m out of school, hold no office and therefore need not abide by the New German Orthography (which, in any case, is neither new, German, nor orthographic). I’m trying to avoid anglicisms as much as possible. This includes WordPress’ish expressions like dashboard, widget, and theme, which I do not leave untranslated, but substitute by the German equivalents of control-panel, component, and motif.

That said, I’d be glad to help.

Hi, about German translations…
I asked a GTE for German, and they have guidelines for translations, of which a draft is here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fIvr9avzhJkLCkCpHLSGEqfeUQOESQugx9CzeksnJCM/edit
Basically, what you are saying you want to do is just what they don’t want :). I can imagine that, because if every plugin translates dashboard and widget differently, it will become chaos.
If you do want to talk it over with the Geramn people, they are on approachable on Slack.com:
https://dewp.slack.com/messages/polyglots