PayPal link in Seamless Donations is no longer working since update to WP 4.5

Update: it appears that despite this error, the payment did go through, as I (as donor) got 3 Emails for this transaction: two from PayPal and and one from Seamless Donations.

However, the Emails to the donation recipients didn’t go out. This is how they are configured:

[email protected],[email protected],[email protected]

I confirmed that two of these addresses did not receive the notification Email (the first two in the list)

This is the complete Log; I checked it after I realized the transaction had gone through. However, each entry has Null IPN which doesn’t seem correct.

[Seamless Donations Log Data]
2016-04-17 10:15:07 IPN processing complete.
2016-04-17 10:15:09 —————————————-
2016-04-17 10:15:09 PROCESSING PAYPAL IPN TRANSACTION
2016-04-17 10:15:09 Seamless Donations Version: 4.0.16
2016-04-17 10:15:09 Null IPN (Empty session id). Nothing to do.
2016-04-17 10:15:09 IPN processing complete.
2016-04-17 10:15:10 —————————————-
2016-04-17 10:15:10 PROCESSING PAYPAL IPN TRANSACTION
2016-04-17 10:15:10 Seamless Donations Version: 4.0.16
2016-04-17 10:15:10 Null IPN (Empty session id). Nothing to do.
2016-04-17 10:15:10 IPN processing complete.
2016-04-17 10:15:18 —————————————-
2016-04-17 10:15:18 PROCESSING PAYPAL IPN TRANSACTION
2016-04-17 10:15:18 Seamless Donations Version: 4.0.16
2016-04-17 10:15:18 Null IPN (Empty session id). Nothing to do.
2016-04-17 10:15:18 IPN processing complete.
2016-04-17 10:15:18 —————————————-
2016-04-17 10:15:18 PROCESSING PAYPAL IPN TRANSACTION
2016-04-17 10:15:18 Seamless Donations Version: 4.0.16
2016-04-17 10:15:18 Null IPN (Empty session id). Nothing to do.
2016-04-17 10:15:18 IPN processing complete.
2016-04-17 10:15:19 —————————————-
2016-04-17 10:15:19 PROCESSING PAYPAL IPN TRANSACTION
2016-04-17 10:15:19 Seamless Donations Version: 4.0.16
2016-04-17 10:15:19 Null IPN (Empty session id). Nothing to do.
2016-04-17 10:15:19 IPN processing complete.
2016-04-17 10:15:20 —————————————-
2016-04-17 10:15:20 PROCESSING PAYPAL IPN TRANSACTION
2016-04-17 10:15:20 Seamless Donations Version: 4.0.16
2016-04-17 10:15:20 Null IPN (Empty session id). Nothing to do.
2016-04-17 10:15:20 IPN processing complete.
2016-04-17 10:16:11 —————————————-
2016-04-17 10:16:11 PROCESSING PAYPAL IPN TRANSACTION
2016-04-17 10:16:11 Seamless Donations Version: 4.0.16
2016-04-17 10:16:11 Null IPN (Empty session id). Nothing to do.
2016-04-17 10:16:11 IPN processing complete.
2016-04-17 10:16:12 —————————————-
2016-04-17 10:16:12 PROCESSING PAYPAL IPN TRANSACTION
2016-04-17 10:16:12 Seamless Donations Version: 4.0.16
2016-04-17 10:16:12 Null IPN (Empty session id). Nothing to do.
2016-04-17 10:16:12 IPN processing complete.
2016-04-17 10:16:15 —————————————-
2016-04-17 10:16:15 PROCESSING PAYPAL IPN TRANSACTION
2016-04-17 10:16:15 Seamless Donations Version: 4.0.16
2016-04-17 10:16:15 Null IPN (Empty session id). Nothing to do.
2016-04-17 10:16:15 IPN processing complete.
2016-04-17 10:16:16 —————————————-
2016-04-17 10:16:16 PROCESSING PAYPAL IPN TRANSACTION
2016-04-17 10:16:16 Seamless Donations Version: 4.0.16
2016-04-17 10:16:16 Null IPN (Empty session id). Nothing to do.
2016-04-17 10:16:16 IPN processing complete.
2016-04-17 10:16:18 —————————————-
2016-04-17 10:16:18 PROCESSING PAYPAL IPN TRANSACTION
2016-04-17 10:16:18 Seamless Donations Version: 4.0.16
2016-04-17 10:16:18 Null IPN (Empty session id). Nothing to do.
2016-04-17 10:16:18 IPN processing complete.
2016-04-17 10:16:18 —————————————-
2016-04-17 10:16:18 PROCESSING PAYPAL IPN TRANSACTION
2016-04-17 10:16:18 Seamless Donations Version: 4.0.16
2016-04-17 10:16:18 Null IPN (Empty session id). Nothing to do.
2016-04-17 10:16:18 IPN processing complete.
2016-04-17 10:38:40 —————————————-
2016-04-17 10:38:40 PROCESSING PAYPAL IPN TRANSACTION
2016-04-17 10:38:40 Seamless Donations Version: 4.0.16
2016-04-17 10:38:40 Null IPN (Empty session id). Nothing to do.
2016-04-17 10:38:40 IPN processing complete.
2016-04-17 10:38:41 —————————————-
2016-04-17 10:38:41 PROCESSING PAYPAL IPN TRANSACTION
2016-04-17 10:38:41 Seamless Donations Version: 4.0.16
2016-04-17 10:38:41 Null IPN (Empty session id). Nothing to do.
2016-04-17 10:38:41 IPN processing complete.

=======================================================================
The Email contained the following information

Apr 17, 2016 10:14:31 PDT
Receipt No:1048-5425-6065-8117

PayPal account receiving the donation shows the following:

Donation Received (Unique Transaction ID #90F19161FU353703A)

Purpose:
Donation
Custom:
SDS01-4DD36EF2-E475-74BD-C24E-747C14276E97.
Date:
Apr 17, 2016
Time:
10:14:29 PDT
Status:
Completed

I see you have another post on this, so I’ll check that out. The big flurry of Null IPN notices is a bug in 4.0.16 that I’m working on fixing.

–David

P.S. Marking as resolved because there’s another whole post on this issue.

Something is odd with this thread. There are two threads that appear to be interspersed. @acanfield, I’m working on what might be a fix for your issue. If you continue to have it once I release 4.0.17, please start a new thread and we’ll continue the discussion.

–David

Will the Seamless Donations plugin get updated automatically? I have all my settings set to update automatically.

Sorry about the multiple threads. I’m still learning where to post my issues.

Sorry about the multiple threads. I’m still learning where to post my issues.

@canfield. No sweat on multiple threads. I do my best to keep up on questions and it’s just a bit easier to track each issue.

As for updating, it depends on how you set things up. WordPress will tell you that you have updates when you visit your dashboard. You can then tap the update button and your plugins will update. Because it’s VERY BAD to have non-updated plugins, I use ManageWP (a paid service) to automatically check all my sites and perform updates. There are other services like that as well.

That’s not a Seamless Donations thing. It’s just that old code in WordPress can be a big security issue, so you should look at for the little red update notice on your Dashboard very regularly. IF you do, Seamless Donations will update, too.

I also always post notices here.

–David