Talroo ID and Password delete at 10:00 every night

Hi –

This is a new one to me.

What is going on in your system at 10 pm? Are there scheduled backups or cron jobs? Though these shouldn’t be the culprit, it doesn’t make sense that at the same time every night those fields get cleared.

Are you using a security plugin?

Are all WP Talroo settings getting reset, or just the username/password fields?

It all gets erased. I don’t have a security plugin, backup or cron job running at 10PM. I have systematically removed plugins to see what would cause it, but it wasn’t it. I am stumped.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This certainly is bizarre, and I don’t know what could be causing this.

If you’d like to hardcode the settings, please make sure to do a backup first.

First, open the file /wp-content/plugins/wp-jobs2careers/display/j2c-job-display.php.
Next, you’ll notice a block of code from lines 67 – 75 where the settings are supposed to be pulled from the database and set into the variables. Try hardcoding the following:

• $j2c_publisher_id = “API_FEED_ID”
• $j2c_publisher_password = “API_FEED_PASSWORD”
• $j2c_logo_attribution = “on”
• $j2c_page_to_display_jobs = “PAGE_ID_NUMBER”

If you specified values other than the defaults for the location, placeholders, and number of jobs to display, you can enter those as well. If you don’t enter them, it should revert back to the default values.

The “PAGE_ID_NUMBER” can be found by hovering over the ‘edit’ link for the page you want to publish on. You’ll see a numerical value, which is what you want to enter.

Keep in mind that any future updates might overwrite these changes, but if you have a bit of coding experience it should be easy enough to figure out.

I hope this helps.

One more thing – have you previously modified any of the files? Has there been any changes to wp-content/plugins/wp-jobs2careers/uninstall.php? It almost seems like that file is being called, which would delete the options entry from the database. It should be safeguarded from any non-wordpress calls. I don’t know why that file would be called.

I will back everything up and try hard coding it. I’ll let you know what happens.

I haven’t changed any settings or code. I am not great with coding yet, but know enough not to mess with things. I will check to see if anything is calling the file. That could be it. I figured it was a cron job that was doing something, but couldn’t find anything that was happening at 10PM.

I am happy to let you know how it goes.

Many thanks!

Yes, please keep me posted ??

One thing that came to mind is that sometimes plugins (or maybe hosting companies??) will do a restoration or quarantine if they detect unusual changes.
I’m using a security plugin on my site that will quarantine files if it detects they shouldn’t be there. I haven’t messed around with the DB settings on the plugin, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was capable of doing some kind of rollback for whatever reason lol.

Good luck!

Do I keep the $j2c_database_settings_array code in the line $j2c_publisher_id = $j2c_database_settings_array

or do I just use:
$j2c_publisher_id = and add the number?

You would just use the feed ID, such as:
$j2c_publisher_id = “12345”;

The same applies for all of the other settings you change.

The changes have been made. I will let you know what happens at 10PM tonight.

I am ready for this to work 100%!

Thanks

Good deal!

By the way, this should work regardless of the options being in the database or not. Is it working for you now if you don’t have the options within the plugin settings? If so, you should e good to go ??

I had quotation marks around the values and it didn’t like it. I removed them and the values turned green. I bet tomorrow night it will work.

Thank you for helping me.

Still not working. I checked everything and it is still wiping out the ID, Password, etc. at 10PM every night. I really like the plugin. Any ideas on what could be calling it?

Bob

Hi Bob –

I’m not sure what would be wiping out the database entries every evening at 10 p.m. Do you have any database optimization plugin that might be doing this? Could this be something your hosting company is doing?

Did you try hardcoding the values in the file? This should work regardless of what’s in the database, since you’re explicitly setting the values.

Also, please send me the URL to your job page if you don’t mind so I can see if there’s anything obvious that might be causing this.

The URL is RestoreJobs.com. Let me know what you find.

Thank you!

Hi Bob –

Can you please send me a list of all the plugins you are using?