Mike Hickcox

Rogier — It turns out they are blocking my SSL certificate.

I do have that certificate registered to my domain name, but last night, I checked the Hostmonster site to read about 3rd party SSL certificates and Hostmonster. Then I called them to confirm it.

Hostmonster will not allow the use of 3rd party (or even their own) SSL certificates unless the site is on a dedicated IP address. If i get the dedicated IP address ($78/year) that should open it up and WP Encrypt and Really Simple SSL should work.

It appears you will need to ask people who they use for web hosting — and if it is Hostmonster, the answer is “You have to get a Dedicated IP Address.”

– Mike

• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Mike Hickcox.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Mike Hickcox.

Good idea Walt. Some plugin may have caused this when it was updated at some time.

Thanks, Mike

Walter — Thank you for jumping right in. But no, this installation is done independently … created a database, loaded WordPress, and installed.

Plugin updates worked fine for about 9 months. Then, starting about 3 months ago, it would show 2 or 3 plugins needing an update, and when I go to do it, it indicates nothing needs updating. A few days later, they’ll show again. I’ll manage to update one, and the rest disappear again. There has to be a way to make always work as it should, instead of 1-2% of the time. Very strange behavior.

I have other sites, one with the same theme, and I’ve never seen this happen in any of the others, but it just continues with this one.

Anyone have a thought of what it could be?

Thanks.

This is NOT resolved. My plugins in need of update almost always cannot be seen. I will start a new topic as this one went sideways.

No go.

I’m back to seeing the little “recycle” logo at the top of the dashboard, indicating there are updates waiting. But when I click on the button, I’m almost always seeing no plugins needing updates. When I look at all plugins, they don’t show a need.

But when I go to my Wordfence plugin, it shows, from the last scan, which plugins are waiting to be updated.

I’m hoping this will clear up in the next update of WordPress. Or maybe someone knows the cause and solution.

All —

Possible solution:

I searched out all plugins that needed to be updated (checked every one of them) and updated them. Since then, the system seems to be working, although not long enough yet to trust it. I also don’t know this seems to have fixed the problem. I’m just happy it’s working properly now.

Mossack Anme — Give that a try. If that doesn’t help, go to something else, but maybe first be sure everything is updated to current.

Curious — I posted a response to Adrian, and now the response has disappeared !?

Adrian – you are looking into PHP versions. Mine on the affected site is 5.

One of my sites on that account is affected by the redirects problem and the other is not. I don’t know what has made the difference between the two, except than the affected one being in a sub-folder,

Anyway, for your evaluation purposes, PHP 5 in this case.

I have 12 sites. Only 1 has the redirect problem. Switching permalinks from Post Name to Plain has allowed the site to work.

The affected site is in a folder below another site, set up essentially the same.

The site in the root folder works fine with the permalinks still set to Post Name. They are on GoDaddy.

The only difference I see is that the affected one is in a sub-folder.

I do have other sites on sub-folders, but they are on HostMonster and are unaffected by the redirect problem.

Whew! Figured it out. It requires a do_shortcode element, like this:

// Audio Player
echo do_shortcode (‘<tr><td class=”label”>Listen:</td><td>[audio src=”https://soundtheology.org/HA-mp3/&#8217; . $row[‘AudioLink’]

Whew! Figured it out. It requires a do_shortcode element, like this:

// Audio Player
echo do_shortcode (‘<tr><td class=”label”>Listen:</td><td>[audio src=”https://soundtheology.org/HA-mp3/&#8217; . $row[‘AudioLink’] . ‘”]</td></tr>’);

This is the code – one of the many iterations of it – that doesn’t work:

// Audio Player
echo ‘<tr style=”height:27px;”><td class=”label”>Listen:</td><td>
[audio src=”https://MySite.org/HA-mp3/&#8217; . $row[‘AudioLink’] . ‘”] </td></tr>’;

Additional info —

No additional plugins are involved here — no table plugin, no audio plugin.

This test site is at: https://501.website/audio-programs/

Mike — Did you ever get this figured out? I’m trying to do this, too.

xnau — I’ll try to be more clear about what I’m doing, and then maybe you’ll know if this will work.

Each year, we have about 12 retreats set up, different weeks, different locations.

I need a leader to be able to register their church or organization to participate in an event. For instance, the leader will register “First United Methodist Church of Peakland, TX” to attend the retreat July 19-25 in Tappahonnock, VA.

That leader then needs to register, for instance, 15 individuals under that church for that event. I would need the person to be able to drop-down the entry for that church and then add those people so they are all part of the correct group.

The leader would need to later go in and add details for some of the individuals, maybe remove a couple of them, maybe add three more, for that church for that event.

Is that doable?

Oh — I meant to write more, but enthusiastically hit “Enter”

moorezilla and I noticed a problem with our installations. The developer immediately looked and found the issue — a line he removed, but should not have, as he made improvements.

He immediately fixed it, and sent me a copy of the fixed file. I’ve installed it and all is perfect.

This is a really nice plugin, and a very helpful and responsible developer.

Donate to him. – I will.