WordPress Events and News error

  • Cavalary

    (@cavalary)


    3 months ago

    For some time now the WordPress Events and News section on the admin dashboard doesn’t work anymore on my site, using WP 4.9.26 (staying on pre-Gutenberg WP), asking for the location and below that displaying “RSS Error:?WP HTTP Error: cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate” twice. At first I assumed it was a temporary thing, since there are occasional moments when it fails to load for a little while, but it’s been going on for quite some time now, can’t even remember when it started. What’s causing that?

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  • threadi

    (@threadi)

    This is a server-side problem with your hosting. I would recommend that you contact your hoster’s support team.

    Thread Starter Cavalary

    (@cavalary)

    I did, and they said it’s not from their end, also showing me a screenshot from the dashboard of another WP site they say is on the same server and using the same PHP version and which works. They also poked around for a while, pointing out that WP uses its own ca-bundle.crt for certificates and that the one from the version I’m using is outdated, but that they tried to update it, and also “force updated” cPanel, and nothing changed, so they don’t think there’s anything else they can do and their assumption is that the RSS feeds no longer work with WP 4.9, even if it still receives security updates.

    I don’t have root access to the server to try anything myself (saw that there was a more detailed reply here earlier, but it seems to have vanished since then?).

    So may that assumption that it no longer works with older WP versions, even if they have the latest security update applied, be correct? Can someone who stays on pre-Gutenberg WP say whether it works for them?

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