Netson

Hi,

thank you for your quick and elaborate response. I understand your reasoning for not using the default AJAX methodology and understand there’s no easy workaround without incurring a performance penalty. Being specialized in performance WordPress hosting I have a liking for everything that speeds up wordpress! ??

Having said that, maybe this is something that should be addressed by WP/Automattic. If the default functionality is being circumvented (I am sure this plugin is not the only one), maybe the default AJAX methods need some redsign.

From a security/hosting perspective, it’s easy to allow access for this particular plugin, but that either means opening up the entire plugin dir, or adding specific rules for each and every plugin which needs it. Both are not ideal solutions.

For now I have a working setup for this website, but I am still hoping you will consider a redesign or conversation with wp developers to find a standardized solution without the performance penalty.

Regards,
Rinck

I actually just tested the code above and (for obvious reasons) it still outputs the warning; instead, this fixes the issue:

Replace on line 44:
$_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"]
with
(in_array('SERVER_NAME', $_SERVER) ? $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] : php_uname("n"))

Hey, I know why this isn’t working and it has nothing to do with the plugin. This has to do with the fact that you’re using the Gmail server as your outgoing mailserver.

As an anti-spam measure, Gmail will not allow you to modify the senders’ email address for messages; even if you submit the message to Google’s servers with the proper “From” header, it will simply rewrite the from header and replace any email address with the Gmail account email address you are connecting to.

I ran into this issue on several occasions before, both on the free Gmail service and the paid Google Apps for Work service and it doesn’t seem like there’s a way around this.

I solved the issue by simply using a different outgoing mailserver which does not have this restriction.

Even though this was posted three months ago, I hope it will be useful to someone. It may just prevent you from pulling your hair out trying to figure out why it isn’t working as expected, even though all settings are correct.

– Rinck

I am more than willing to get to the bottom of this and debug this with you, but I am in a bit of a timecrunch. This is a live multisite and I regularly activate new blogs; usually these have to be up and running within a few days at most.

At the bottom of this post is the content of the jetpack_options row from the wp_options table. I have replaced most of the ID’s with 0000’s because I am not sure how sensitive these are to misuse. If you need the actual ID’s I can send them to you via email?

General info:

WordPress version: 4.0
Jetpack Version: 3.1.1
Ubuntu Server: 12.04.5 (64)
Apache: 2.2.22
MySQL: 5.5.40

Also, here’s a list of installed and activated plugins; a few have notes in bold which may be relevant:

• Admin Message – Display a message in admin dashboard – Version: 1.1.1.2 | By S H Mohanjith (Incsub), Andrew Billits (Incsub)
• Akismet – Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world … Version: 3.0.2 | By Automattic
• Contact Form 7 – Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible. – Version: 4.0.1 | By Takayuki Miyoshi
• Domain Mapping – The ultimate Multisite domain mapping plugin – sync cookies, sell domains with eNom, and integrate with Pro Sites. – Version: 4.2.0.3 | By WPMU DEV
• Force Strong Passwords – Forces users to use something strong when updating their passwords. – Version: 1.3.4 | By Steve Taylor
• Google Analytics – Enables Google Analytics for your site with statistics inside WordPress admin panel. Single and multi site compatible! – Version: 3.1.2 | By WPMU DEV
• Image Watermark – Image Watermark allows you to automatically watermark images uploaded to the WordPress Media Library and bulk watermark previously uploaded images. – Version: 1.3.3 | By dFactory
• Jetpack By WordPress.com – no need to leave the Dutch explanation here ?? – Version: 3.1.1 | By Automattic
• Limit Login Attempts – Version: 1.7.1 | By Johan Eenfeldt
• New Blog Templates – Allows the site admin to create new blogs based on templates, to speed up the blog creation process – Version: 2.7.1 | By WPMU DEV I used this plugin to create the site/blog which is having problems. The template in question has bad credentials for facebook/twitter which do not work at all and this template site also does not show up in WordPress.com
• OOG Advertenties – Custom pluging (shows ads)
• OOG Bericht – Custom plugin (message rating)
• OOG Beste Berichten – Custom plugin (shows most popular messages)
• Scoopshot Promo Widget – Custom plugin (adds widget)
• Simple Sitemaps For Multisite – The ultimate search engine plugin – Simply have sitemaps created, submitted and updated for every blog on your site – Version: 1.1 | By Viper007Bond (Incsub)
• Ultimate Facebook – Easy Facebook integration: share your blog posts, autopost to your wall, login and registration integration, BuddyPress profiles support and more. Please, configure the plugin first. – Version: 2.7.6 | By WPMU DEV – This plugin replaces the Jetpack facebook autoposting feature; but the template I used to create this site, still had the facebook publicize settings stored.
• User Switching – Instant switching between user accounts in WordPress – Version: 1.0.1 | By John Blackbourn
• WP-Mail-SMTP – Reconfigures the wp_mail() function to use SMTP instead of mail() and creates an options page to manage the settings. – Version: 0.9.5 | By Callum Macdonald
• WPMU DEV Dashboard – Brings the power of WPMU DEV direct to you, it’ll revolutionize how you use WordPress, activate now! – Version: 3.4.7 | By WPMU DEV

[publicize_connections] => Array
        (
            [twitter] => Array
                (
                    [0000000] => Array
                        (
                            [user_id] => 33
                            [provider] => twitter:000000
                            [issued] => 2014-06-16 07:27:32
                            [expires] => 0000-00-00 00:00:00
                            [external_id] => 00000000
                            [external_name] => MyName
                            [external_display] => MyName
                            [type] => access
                            [connection_data] => Array
                                (
                                    [id] => 0000000
                                    [token_id] => 0000000
                                    [blog_id] => 70471816
                                    [user_id] => 0
                                    [meta] => Array
                                        (
                                            [external_user_id] => 33
                                        )

                                )

                        )

                )

            [facebook] => Array
                (
                    [0000000] => Array
                        (
                            [user_id] => 33
                            [provider] => facebook:000000000000
                            [issued] => 2014-06-18 05:44:48
                            [expires] => 0000-00-00 00:00:00
                            [external_id] => 00000000000000
                            [external_name] => MyName
                            [external_display] => MyName
                            [type] => access
                            [connection_data] => Array
                                (
                                    [id] => 0000000
                                    [token_id] => 0000000
                                    [blog_id] => 70471816
                                    [user_id] => 0
                                    [meta] => Array
                                        (
                                            [external_user_id] => 33
                                            [facebook_page] => 00000000000000000
                                            [follower_count] => 59
                                            [link] => https://myurl.ext
                                            [display_name] => MyName
                                        )

                                )

                        )

                )

        )

Unfortunately, disconnecting and reconnecting did not change anything, connections are still there and broken and cannot be removed.

Again, can I change this in my db directly somehow? If so, please point me in the right direction. I will try this on a test setup first and make a copy of my db beforehand, obviously.

Thanks again!

Hey, thanks for looking into this!

No caching plugins in use or installed at the moment.

I just checked the publicize settings, and jetpack still tells me that facebook and twitter are connected and that the publicize ID is wrong:

Jetpack: [failed_publicize_action] Invalid Publicize ID

Is this information stored in my local db? If so, where could I find it and can I just delete the info or replace it with a blank ID/NULL? I did a global search through the database, but couldn’t spot anything that looks like it is what I need.

Clicking the disconnect X still tells me that facebook/twitter has been successfully connected, so nothing’s changed there.

Thanks!