Marco Schmoecker

@webulous The htaccess file is getting recreated, right after deleting it (in the uploads folder). Just wanted to report back. It’s still empty though.

@webulous Gotcha, yes, it does/did happen repeatedly. I’ll go ahead and delete the htaccess file and will let you know if I see this issue come up again after the next plugin update. Thanks!

[updated/edited my reply]
@webulous I do see an empty htaccess file in the uploads folder. The file right look the same as other files and should allow for read/write. There could be another (security related) measure in place that prevents access though. I do see 2 warnings related to that file in the last 24hs.

And, to re-confirm, you are saying that this issue should be gone with the next plugin update?

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by Marco Schmoecker.

Hi Dragos,
Sorry, I did not realize that the error message is for/from WPML. We’re not using them at the same time and that plugin got removed. Please disregard this message. I’ll open a new ticket when I see the error message related to Translatepress.

Thanks for looking into it! Fully understand that htaccess is Apache specific. We also have page cache turned off and WPO does recognize that e.g. gzip compression is already set up outside of the plugin (via Nginx I’m assuming) and it shows that in a message and doesn’t even allow to turn that setting on or off. Which is great. Just puzzling that there is no way to prevent (disable) the htaccess read/write activity.

Hm, not sure what you are referring to re the entire message. Here is another one from the error logs. This is all I can see in the PHP error logs – I have only edited/shortened the path and there is no stack trace or anything else related to this:

[20-Jan-2023 22:56:24 UTC] PHP Warning: file_put_contents([web root]/.htaccess): Failed to open stream: Permission denied in /[…]/wp-content/plugins/wp-optimize/includes/class-wp-optimize-htaccess.php on line 135

Since PHP v5.4+ “pass-by-reference” got removed and was deprecated/unneeded since a while. This is why your site might whitescreen as long as the plugin is activated in your site.

The plugin author needs to fix this to make the plugin work on more recent versions of PHP (read not outdated/unsupported once like v5.3).

Until then you need to delete the plugin to make your site work again (or fix the problem if you’re a develop).

Cheers!

I’m experiencing the same error. Did you find a solution for this? Or whu this is happening?

Thank you!
-Marco

Hey Jason,

I did find your github profile, but didn’t see the uploaded & modified MS ready plugin. Could you provide a link and/or let me know what needed to get changed to make it work?

I might need to modify it, too. I want to activate it in MS but not give access to the plugin’s settings on each individual site, set everything up on the network admin level.

Thanks!

Ah, thanks! RTFM I guess ??

Thanks!

Is there an example of a custom meta box around in combination with your plugin? Should I base my custom meta box on the one in your plugin, or would that create more work on my part vs. simply creating my own metabox.

And, should I use your plugins methods to save the connection data?

Cheers!

So, basically I’d have to develop my own metabox and AJAX handler to accomplish saving a custom field with (newly created) connected post/CPT?

That’s great, VFHwebdev! Glad I could help.
Cheers!

VFHwebdev, You can use something like this to disable post type switcher from messing with the post type on the ACF admin / field group setting pages. I’m using Post Type Switcher v1.1 and ACF v3.2 and they both work fine alongside each other now.

Just drop this into your function.php:

add_filter( 'pts_post_type_filter', "pts_disable");
function pts_disable( $args ) {
    $postType  = get_post_type();
    if( 'acf' === $postType ){
        $args = array(
          'name' => 'acf'
        );
    }
    return $args;
}

Yep, same for me. WP v3.2.1

I’ve even tried to turn on debugging but to no avail. Is there something we can do to troubleshoot this to at least see what is coming back from Twitter, or, if WP is able to connect at all?

Thanks!