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I just want to add my voice that I find this label distracting and unnecessary. It’s nice that there is now a maintenance/coming soon feature. And people who want to use it can enable it. But I don’t think it should be enabled by default. Personally, I have a hard time believing that the majority of WooCommerce stores toggle between live and maintenance mode much, if at all. The fact that Apple does it doesn’t convince me either. I find it pretty funny that this detail-oriented, trillion dollar company still goes through these motions. I do not think they really need to do this anymore. It’s a marketing gimmick at this point. Anyone who needs to change or update their store in a big way and doesn’t want any in-between states visible to users has a staging site. Of course, it’s no big deal. Me and my site will survive. But I can totally see how annoying this change is for web developers and web agencies who have to explain to all their confused clients what this means and why it’s there…

@bkihm Yes, they thought that another plugin or maybe even the theme was causing this. I wanted to test it on a staging site (switching off all plugins, changing to a standard theme etc.), but when I actually got around to do that, the error message had gone away by itself. It hasn’t come back so far.

Thank you @srikanthmeenakshi for your help. I will contact them!

Any luck finding a solution? For some reason I have this error message on my wp-admin/edit-comments.php all of a sudden. The site seems to work normally besides this.

Okay, sounds good!

Hi! Thank you for your help. I will have to find time to go through that and see what I find out.

Hi, thank you for coming back to me. I followed the instructions and wanted to use the example template before changing anything. I have not changed any of the default settings.

I installed the plugin via the backend, activated it. Then I needed to “reinstall” the example template (via that button in the Sensei Tools section), because there was none. That lead to a 500 server error. Unfortunately this being a staging site it doesn’t send out the email with the exact problem. But anyway, the example template was there regardless. I chose it in one course to test it. I used the button in Sensei Tools to generate the certificates, they were generated, I click on one, it’s only showing the background image without any text. I needed to regenerate permalinks first, because otherwise I would get a 404 trying to look at the certificate. But that might also be connected to the staging site as well.

I was just hoping, something similar had happened to someone before and there’s something known interfering.

I also got one of these emails for one of my sites and looked at the “security researcher” that found the vulnarability: He has somehow found hundreds and hundreds of vulnarabilities in websites today. Wonder how he did that. Must have been lots and lots of work *sarcasm sign*. The sites also seem to be pretty much in alphabetical order.

And you are supposed to write the “researcher” so they can tell you what the problem is. It’s probably no coincidence that they also explain how to pay them via PayPal …

In other words: Even if the platform itself is legit (and I am not convinced it is), there are people who find a vulnarability in WordPress or a WordPress plugin and instead of disclosing this to WordPress or the author of the plugin, they use this platform to automatically send these emails to all sites they can find with the same setup. And then they hope people will give them money.

I think that this is a WordPress problem, because many WordPress users will receive these emails and feel that their site is insecure. If WordPress thinks longterm, this is very problematic.