v1.8 unavailable

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

What you are seeing is an update notice for the now-retired TablePress Responsive Tables Extension. Version 1.8 (from March 2021, I think) is the last version of the TablePress Reponsive Tables Extension, but your site never updated to that, I guess. The Extension will not receive any further updates, as it has been?retired and is no longer available. Instead, the?Responsiveness?features have directly been integrated into the new Premium versions of TablePress. With that, it’s no longer necessary to have a separate plugin installed, and they now integrate nicely into the user interface. This, for example, means that you can directly choose a mode for?responsiveness?on a table’s “Edit” screen, instead of having to deal with Shortcode parameters where it’s easy to make typos and similar mistakes. In addition, the Premium versions do include priority email support by me. For more information, please see?https://tablepress.org/premium/ and?https://tablepress.org/pricing/

So, you could maybe check out the TablePress premium versions, or alternatively continue using the version of the Extension that you have installed. To get rid of the update notification, you could manually edit the plugin’s PHP file and change the version from 1.7 to 1.8. That will hide the update notice.

Regards,
Tobias

Thank you for the explanation, Tobias!

It is used on a low-traffic / low-budget website (and you are right, I am trying to update plugins after few years), I cannot go for a paid version unfortunately.

So I tried to change the version as you suggested. The only instance of ‘1.7’ I found on line 52 of tablepress-responsive-tables.php file. So I changed it to:

protected static $version = '1.8';

That however did not have any effect. WordPress still claims there is 1.8 available.

I am not web/PHP programmer but went further in this file and found this function:

	public static function init_update_checker() {
		require_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/libraries/plugin-update-checker.php';
		self::$plugin_update_checker = PucFactory::buildUpdateChecker(
			'https://tablepress.org/downloads/extensions/update-check/' . self::$slug . '.json',
			__FILE__,
			self::$slug
		);
	}

I tried to remove any implementation from it to avoid the http call:

	public static function init_update_checker() {

	}

And this worked, the update notice is hidden by now. So I will probably stick to this solution.

If I put into browser this URL: https://tablepress.org/downloads/extensions/update-check/tablepress-responsive-tables.json, it shows this:

{
name: "TablePress Extension: Responsive Tables",
version: "1.8",
homepage: "https://tablepress.org/extensions/responsive-tables/",
...
...
}

I was wondering whether it would not make sense to modify this server file to version 1.7 so that nobody else will be exposed to this problem?

All the best, Jan

Hi,

there’s another version string near the top of the file (like in the fifth line or so):

Version: 1.7

This is what WordPress uses to determine the version of that plugin/file, so that you would need to update that to 1.8 as well.

But indeed, turning off that HTTP request by removing those lines that you mention is also fine (and good for the future, as it’s a useless request now anyways).

Modifying the file on the server would not make sense and would be wrong, as version 1.8 is the latest existing version that many sites have installed, so the information in that file is correct.

Best wishes,
Tobias

Oh, I found that line naturally but being it part of the comment block I thought that one will surely not be used. How wrong ??

I still do not understand the whole picture. If the latest available version is 1.8 and this version has been installed by many sites, I do not understand why this last version is not available. However no need to explain, I am fine with the current solution.

Thank you again, Jan

Hi Jan,

good to hear that this helped!

Essentially, I turned off the download for the TablePress Extension (all versions), as these features are now part of the TablePress premium versions, with better integration, etc. as mentioned above.

Your site would also be on version 1.8 if you had updated between March of 2021 and the end of 2022 (when I turned off the download).

But indeed, the current solution should be fine for you. Changes between 1.7 and 1.8 of the Extension are very small.

Regards,
Tobias