Chad Warner

Please also update the link on this plugin’s FAQ page. The link under “What are Shortcodes?” is still pointing to the old URL.

In my last post, I said that I added define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); to wp-config.php and ran a backup, and it worked. However, I later noticed that many of the characters on my site (in Spanish posts) were messed up. So, I commented the DB_CHARSET out of wp-config.php again. The Codex article Converting Database Character Sets appears beyond my ability to follow, so I’m looking for other options.

My BackWPup Settings > Information tab shows MySQL Client encoding: DB_CHARSET and Blog charset: UTF-8. When I look at the tables in phpMyAdmin, they have collation utf8_general_ci or latin1_swedish_ci (only for a few of the Wordfence plugin tables).

Thanks for the quick reply and explanation.

Has there been any progress on this (specifically, using shared SSL from Bluehost or Hostmonster)?

Thanks, chrispix. I checked the Settings > Info tab, and it showed Blog charset as UTF-8. I checked wp-config.php, and DB_CHARSET wasn’t defined. I added define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8'); and ran a backup, and it worked!

I still have this problem with version 3.0.4 of the plugin. Please let me know what details you need to troubleshoot.

[INFO] BackWPup version 3.0.4; WordPress version 3.5.1;
[INFO] BackWPup job: Database, files, uploads (local & offsite); DBCHECK+DBDUMP+DBOPTIMIZE+FILE+WPPLUGIN
[INFO] BackWPup cron: 0 3 * * 1; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 @ 03:00
[INFO] BackWPup job started manually
[INFO] PHP ver.: 5.2.17; cgi-fcgi; Linux
[INFO] Maximum script execution time is 30 seconds
[INFO] MySQL ver.: 5.1.53-log
[INFO] curl ver.: 7.18.2; OpenSSL/0.9.8g
[11-Mar-2013 07:35:18] 1. Try for database dump …
[11-Mar-2013 07:35:18] ERROR: Can not set DB charset to DB_CHARSET
[11-Mar-2013 07:35:20] 2. Try for database dump …
[11-Mar-2013 07:35:20] ERROR: Can not set DB charset to DB_CHARSET
[11-Mar-2013 07:35:21] 3. Try for database dump …
[11-Mar-2013 07:35:21] ERROR: Can not set DB charset to DB_CHARSET
[11-Mar-2013 07:35:22] 1. Trying to make a list of folders to back up …

Today I’m not able to update WordPress SEO by Yoast. WP Remote says it successfully updated, but the sites still show a pending update in the WP admin. When I refresh in WP Remote, it shows pending updates again.

I’ve experienced the same problems:
? WP Remote says it updated a plugin, but when I have WP Remote check again, it shows the same pending update.
? WP Remote doesn’t detect that its own plugin requires updating.
? WP Remote doesn’t reactivate some plugins after updating (Google Doc Embedder is one).
? When I email [email protected], I get a reply maybe 1 out of 3 times.

I also get a lot of “URL doesn’t appear to be a valid url” errors, on several sites on different hosts. I still haven’t heard back from support about that.

I really like the concept of WP Remote, and I’d like to help troubleshoot if I can.

You can set a max-width for the container. For example, on a page of videos, you could use

.post-12 .entry-content {
    max-width: 500px; /* set explicit width of container, because fitvids makes videos 100% width */
}

If you can’t do that because the videos are mixed with other content, this CSS gets pretty close. In this example, I want my videos to have a max-width of 500px and max-height of 281px, but you can change these to the sizes you want.

.fluid-width-video-wrapper { /* fitvids */
    padding-top: 281px !important; /* override fitvids-generated padding; too much padding at full size */
}
.fluid-width-video-wrapper iframe { /* fitvids */
    max-width: 500px; /* prevent videos from stretching too wide */
    max-height: 281px;
}

Wow, I can’t believe I didn’t figure this out earlier. The container needs to have a max-width, not a width, to remain responsive. I’m working on yet another site today, and found that this works:

<div style="max-width: 500px;">
[slider id="7"]
</div>

Alternatively, play around with setting max-width on the flexslider class.

Note: do not click the links to trans lat onli ne. com in this post, as the site is currently infected.

[Moderator note: then don’t make it clickable by wrapping it in code buttons and adding spaces. ]

The Wordfence security plugin is showing me the same message. The issue is not in the WordPress site or the Contact Form 7 plugin; it’s simply that Contact Form 7’s Readme contains a URL that Google has flagged as a malware site. Here are the details from Wordfence:

File contains suspected malware URL: /home2/optimwis/public_html/globalpartssource/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/readme.txt
Filename: wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/readme.txt
Bad URL: https://www.t r a nslatonline.com/)
This file contains a suspected malware URL listed on Google’s list of malware sites. Wordfence decodes base64 when scanning files so the URL may not be visible if you view this file. The URL is: https://www.tra ns lato nline.com/) – More info available at Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page.

Google does show “This site may harm your computer.” below https://ww w. t r a n s l a t o n l i ne.com.

Yes, add default='' like so: [contact-field label="Subject" type="subject" default='']

I blogged about this: Add a subject field to a Jetpack contact form.

I’m creating a different site now, and having the same trouble. The fix you suggested (wrapping the slider in a div with a specified width) prevents the slider from being responsive in Chrome as well as Firefox and IE9. Example

I just upgraded to 2.5 and saw “GDE Error: Unable to load profile settings” on the front-end. I went to the plugin’s settings and saw an error about the profile (sorry, I didn’t record it). I simply deactivated and reactivated the plugin, and that fixed it.

This Trac ticket has a link to the differences between Twenty Twelve 1.0 and 1.1.

This Trac ticket has a link to the differences between Twenty Eleven 1.4 and 1.5.