Gabriel Novo

I just had to uninstall and re-install (from scratch) the Jetpack plugin and it’s finally working.

ALL my other plugins and themes were up to date at the time. I didn’t change my version of PHP either. No conflicts. Just a poor update process that tends to break.

It’s insane that something as simple as an update suffers from such inconsistency.

I thought a clean install would work, but instead it crashed the site again and I captured the error.

Link to image of error.

And line 49 is

require_once( JETPACK__PLUGIN_DIR . 'class.jetpack-data.php' );

No clue why it breaks there. The website’s the same and everything should behave in the same way. No new plugins since the last update.

@sunipeyk I deactivated and reactivated the Jetpack plugin in order to fix that loop. It took a couple of tries (could’ve been cache or cookies), but it worked in the end.

@jeherve I saw the option to pick a plan, but was worried it would override my grandfathered Akismet protection.

If it doesn’t affect my current SPAM screening through Akismet then I’ll gladly pick a plan to finish the connection.

@mgc your workaround got my site back up. THANK YOU!

Interestingly, now Jetpack isn’t connecting to WordPress.com. It sees my account and looks like it connected, but then asks me to pick a plan. I’ve had Jetpack and Akismet since forever and was grandfathered in with the original SPAM protection setup.

No clue why that’s popping up, but it’s preventing Jetpack from truly activating. An odd development that hopefully the developers can clear up.

Thank you very much for your quick reply. I look forward to the update.

A PHP upgrade is a major change for such a simple plugin and can have ramifications across an entire website depending on the code.

I’d rather downgrade or uninstall the plugin than take a risk with my entire site. I hope the author develops a workaround.

Alright, one link only on the Tweet and Google+ post. It was the Permalink not the Bit.ly link.

Since it appears that my Yoast plugin is broken, what would you recommend as a Publicize friendly Bit.ly link generator?

Ok. Plugin disabled. I have a post scheduled for tomorrow morning, so I’ll let you know how it goes.

I can deactivate Bit.ly Shortlinks (from Yoast), but there’s a bit of code that goes along with it.

/**
 * Settings for Bit.ly Shortlinks Plugin
 * https://yoast.com/wordpress/bitly-shortlinks/
 **/
define('BITLY_USERNAME', '<your username>');
define('BITLY_APIKEY', '<your API key>');

Do I need to delete that as well?