Turn off auto-updates?
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Feature request:
Please add an option within settings to disable auto-updates on this plugin.
The plugin updated itself with the 1.9.9.8.2 shortly after midnight in my time zone. It broke the site — the home page produced a 500 error with wordpress error log showing:
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method WPSS_Utils::is_plugin_active() in /home/..../wp-content/plugins/wp-spamshield/includes/class.utils.php on line 179
Once I figured out the problem I was able to restore function by disabling and re-enabling the software — but by then the site had been down for an hour– and it would have been much longer if I had not become aware of the problem. (Because, you know, some people go to sleep late at night).
You recommend clearing all caches with an update and that is something I can only do if know the updated has been passed through. So auto-updates are bound to cause problems with this program, at least on sites using caching.
I found this article: https://www.redsandmarketing.com/plugins/wp-spamshield/faqs/?faqs=16#faqs_16 – where you recommend installing another plugin to control auto-updates — but I shouldn’t have to install a different plugin to prevent this one from breaking my site.
Given that updates of this plugin frequently cause site function problems that are detailed in your troubleshooting guide, it seems to me to that you should not be using the wordpress auto-update API by default, but at least give users a choice.
Now it is 2 am for me but instead of going to bed I have to check all my other sites using wp-spamshield to make sure this problem does not recur on other sites.
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