cheddargeorge

@dragonsway76
You’re far more patient than I am. I already gave up on them a little while back. They obviously no clue what they’re doing, which is unfortunate.

But good luck anyway, thx for adding additional comments and posts, and if you ever somehow figure out a solution then I’d be very pleased to know it. Likewise if I ever figure it out I’ll post back here. But I can imagine we can rest assured that there won’t be any solution from the plug-in authors.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by cheddargeorge.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by cheddargeorge.

@pmbaldha

Have you even read any of the previous comments and information provided? It doesn’t seem like it.

@plugin Support

Your suggestions are nonsense. I already said in the original question that the
permissions and ownership of .htaccess are correct.

Your plugin doesn’t work.

Yeah, I concur. Still the same issue. AllowOverride All has always been enabled in my Apache config (CentOS: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) for the virtual host in question, and is not overridden in .htaccess.

So, still not working.

The .htaccess file exists and works fine. In fact WP Security even has no problem making a backup copy of it. It’s just that when it comes to actually writing anything to it that WP Security fails every time, even though permissions and ownership are correct.

Hi @vupdraft.

No, there are no other security plugins.

Okay, so after much hair-pulling and lack of responses from anywhere, I finally figured out that I could just copy a particular file from another theme over the top of one in the Responsive theme and it worked just fine.

So, the file which I needed to copy (because presumably the one bundled with the most recent version of Responsive is out of date) is:

class-tgm-plugin-activation.php

So, to figure this out, and to locate the relevant file(s), I just grepped for “TGMPA”, as follows in my web directories:

grep -rl "TGMPA" /var/www/*

… which, fortunately, found several other themes using the same bulk-installer method, and listed the location in /wp-content/themes/ where class-tgm-plugin-activation.php was being used.

Checking a couple of files it was apparent that some were newer than others, and the file size considerably different (the Responsive one is smaller). So, I made a backup of the class-tgm-plugin-activation.php under the Responsive theme and copied one from the shoppingcart theme, which I happened to have installed, over the top of it. Voila!

I imagine if one doesn’t a new copy locally then one could just download it from the TGMPA website (https://tgmpluginactivation.com/) and copy that file over.

Hope that my solution might help some other struggling soul at some point.

FYI: The code at 1527 in the script referred to is as follows:

/** Create a new instance of TGM_Bulk_Installer */
$installer = new TGM_Bulk_Installer($skin = new TGM_Bulk_Installer_Skin(compact('url', 'nonce', 'names')));

Okay Jacob, thanks for the comment. I just wanted to make sure I was using the best/proper way of doing it before getting too far with it.
It does work okay, so I’m happy with that; yeah, hopefully the parent theme won’t change too much. I don’t really want to create my own new theme [yet], so I guess I’ll stick with the method I’m using.
Thank you again for your thoughts!