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The plugin is fully compatible with the latest version of WordPress. I have it running with no issues. Could I suggest you perhaps try creating a new Olimometer in the settings page and see if that works? Other than that, feel free to rip the code apart – this plugin is pretty old now and could do with reworking into a fancy HTML5/CSS based model. GD library is very slow and inefficient.

That is a strange issue that I can’t reproduce. The PayPal API gives me one value, which is the total balance of the PayPal account. That includes any fees already subtracted per transaction.

Sometimes, but there’s only me and quite often I’m not able to reproduce the problems.

I’ve seen this recently on other WordPress installations, but not specifically for my plugin. It has usually been because the site has been compromised and malicious code injected into various php files. The malicious code can cause the plugin to become invalid and WordPress won’t show it despite all of the files still being there. You should install Wordfence and “Anti-Malware and Brute-Force Security by ELI” plugins and do a scan of your site. If it finds anything, clean it up, change your passwords, then to fix the Olimometer just delete the whole folder from wp-content/plugins and reinstall.

Hi,

Try updating to v2.55 – the constructor error should have gone.

The Olimometer can cause high CPU load on a heavily used site due to the graphic manipulation of the GD library upon which it is dependant. Since this plugin was written many years ago, web technologies have moved on significantly and I’m currently investigating a cleaner CSS/HTML way of implementing the thermometer images. I can’t give timescales, but I am looking into it.

I’ve found your error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function imagettfbbox() in /home/galactic/public_html/new/wp-content/plugins/olimometer/thermometer.php on line 382

This means that your web server’s GD installation hasn’t been compiled with TTF (for TrueType Fonts) support.

Do you see the Olimometer image on the settings page in the preview section?

On the plugin settings page, scroll down to diagnostics. It should tell you if the PayPal account is configured correctly, and if it is, display the balance. Your offline donations will be added to that total. There is no need to wait any amount of time because the PayPal account balance is pulled real-time.

You just set the target amount to 13000 (without any commas or currency – that is important), then choose the number format “1,000” from the drop-down box.

I’m aware that the plugin causes the P3 test to flag up the Olimometer as a resource hog, but I’m not entirely convinced it is accurate. I have been through the code in the past and optimised it slightly, but given the way it works there wasn’t a lot I could do. It needs to dynamically create an image on every page load containing it, so that involves reading in the WordPress API, loading other images and fonts, processing them, then outputting as a new image.

I’ll take another look over the next couple of weeks and see what I can come up with. The only idea I have at the moment is an option to cache the image so as it only actually updates itself once in every ‘x’ number of refreshes. It does mean the image won’t always be up to date though.

Hi,

Yes it would be possible to keep track of donations made via the buttons, but this would require a significant effort to turn the relatively simple thermometer plugin into a full on fundraising plugin. It certainly won’t happen in the short-term, but I won’t rule out ripping the code apart to implement something like this in the future.

So a sort of “apply to all” button?

Hi, I’m afraid I can’t reproduce this at all. I’ve managed to add as many Olimometers as I like, one straight after the other, with no fiddling around at all. I think it may be a conflict in your theme. Are you using a standard theme I can download to take a look?

Just to prove I’ve not making it up… here’s a screenshot using the standard “Twenty Fourteen” theme:
Screenshot

Ooh, clone. Sounds a good idea – I’ll have a play.