Patrick Boehner

Hi Mark,

I had looked at the code but completely missed that. Thank you for making the plugin extendable. I’ll try that out.

Hi @tharg3

While those are nice things to have, and I am aware of them, they don’t really address the main issue.

The plugins should not be auto-selected. A client who doesn’t understand what is happening ( because it’s unclear) shouldn’t need to opt out. It should be an opt-in-only feature.

They should also be separated from the other options and have text that clarifies that these are separate plugins that would be installed if selected and aren’t required.

The fact that they keep getting installed by clients who didn’t intend to demonstrates that the pattern needs to be more explicit.

Also wanted to report a similar issue with an updated to 3.1.5

An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 41 of the file /www/wp-content/plugins/blockmeister/includes/Pattern_Builder/BlockMeister_Pattern_Category_Taxonomy.php. Error message: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method WP_Taxonomy::get_default_labels() in /www/wp-content/plugins/blockmeister/includes/Pattern_Builder/BlockMeister_Pattern_Category_Taxonomy.php:41
Stack trace:
#0 /www/wp-content/plugins/blockmeister/includes/Pattern_Builder/BlockMeister_Pattern_Category_Taxonomy.php(23): ProDevign\BlockMeister\Pattern_Builder\BlockMeister_Pattern_Category_Taxonomy->register_blockmeister_pattern_category_taxonomy()
#1 /wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(307): ProDevign\BlockMeister\Pattern_Builder\BlockMeister_Pattern_Category_Taxonomy->ProDevign\BlockMeister\Pattern_Builder\{closure}(”)
#2 /wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(331): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array)
#3 /wordpress/wp-includes/plugin.php(474): WP_Hook->do_action(Array)
#4 /wordpress/wp-settings.php(590): do_action(‘init’)
#5 /www/wp-config.php(120): require_once(‘/wordpress/wp-s…’)
#6 /wordpress/wp-config.php(5): require(‘/www/wp-config….’)
#7 /wordpress/wp-load.php(50): require_once(‘/wordpress/wp-c…’)`

A form plugin is only ever going to be able to do so much to prevent spam. At a certain point, you will need to consider other options. I say this as someone managing multiple websites using Ninja Forms also experiencing the same attacks over periods of time. But this isn’t a new issue for any form plugin, so instead of waiting for an update to somehow fix this ( to which the spammers will eventually overcome again ), you might be better served to implement some spam filtering tools like CleanTalk or others filtering services.

I finely hunted down the issue in my setup and wanted to post just encase someone else has a similar setup issue. The html wasn’t saving because I had define( ‘DISALLOW_UNFILTERED_HTML’, true ) in my wp-config.php

Definitely an issue with my local development server. Tested it on another setup and the issue went away. Sorry to drag you down the rabbit hole.

Yep. No MU plugins but I will go ahead and test it on another environment.

I’m making these updates to account for the class changes between the plugins on my local test site using Local by flywheel.

I’ve gone ahead and installed the Twenty Nineteen theme and disabled all other plugins. Issue remains.

The HTML that is output looks like:

<div class="spu-content">
<p style="margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">
Subscribe To Our Newsletter<br>
Sign up for our monthly newsletter and get the latest financial news, tips, and insights.[gravityform id=”4″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]<button class="spu-close-popup ">No Thank You</button>
</p>
</div>

Here is a dump from site health. I will do a little more testing on my end.

### wp-core ###

version: 5.3.1
site_language: en_US
user_language: en_US
timezone: America/Los_Angeles
permalink: /blog/%postname%/
https_status: true
user_registration: 0
default_comment_status: open
multisite: false
user_count: 10
dotorg_communication: true

### wp-plugins-active (18) ###

ACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO: version: 2.3.0, author: Thomas Kr?ftner, ViktorFroberg, marol87, pekz0r, angrycreative, Team Yoast
Advanced Custom Fields PRO: version: 5.8.7, author: Elliot Condon
Autoptimize: version: 2.5.1, author: Frank Goossens (futtta)
Classic Editor: version: 1.5, author: WordPress Contributors
Disable Comments: version: 1.10.2, author: Samir Shah
Gravity Forms: version: 2.4.15, author: rocketgenius
Gravity Forms MailChimp Add-On: version: 4.6, author: rocketgenius
Maintance Testing Tools: version: 1.0.3, author: Patrick Boehner
Native Lazyload: version: 1.0.2, author: Google
Query Monitor: version: 3.5.2, author: John Blackbourn
Redirector: version: 3.0.1, author: Ralf Hortt
Relevanssi: version: 4.4.1, author: Mikko Saari
Shared Counts: version: 1.3.0, author: Bill Erickson & Jared Atchison
Tada: version: 1.1.1, author: Ben Gillbanks
TinyMCE Advanced: version: 5.3.0, author: Andrew Ozz
WordPress Zero Spam: version: 3.1.1, author: Ben Marshall
WP Popups Lite: version: 2.0.0.6, author: timersys
Yoast SEO Premium: version: 12.0.1, author: Team Yoast

### wp-plugins-inactive (3) ###

CAOS: version: 2.9.4, author: Daan van den Bergh
SendGrid: version: 1.11.8, author: SendGrid
Simple History: version: 2.33, author: P?r Thernstr?m

### wp-server ###

server_architecture: Linux 4.9.93-boot2docker x86_64
httpd_software: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian)
php_version: 7.2.0 64bit
php_sapi: fpm-fcgi
max_input_variables: 3000
time_limit: 900
memory_limit: 256M
max_input_time: -1
upload_max_size: 1000M
php_post_max_size: 1000M
curl_version: 7.38.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1t
suhosin: false
imagick_availability: true
htaccess_extra_rules: false

### wp-constants ###

WP_HOME: undefined
WP_SITEURL: undefined
WP_CONTENT_DIR: /app/public/wp-content
WP_PLUGIN_DIR: /app/public/wp-content/plugins
WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT: 256M
WP_DEBUG: true
WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY: false
WP_DEBUG_LOG: true
SCRIPT_DEBUG: false
WP_CACHE: false
CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS: undefined
COMPRESS_SCRIPTS: undefined
COMPRESS_CSS: undefined
WP_LOCAL_DEV: undefined
DB_CHARSET: utf8
DB_COLLATE: undefined

### wp-filesystem ###

wordpress: writable
wp-content: writable
uploads: writable
plugins: writable
themes: writable

Sure. Nothing fancy, just a heading and a paragraph. I’ve tried using the formatting options in the text editor and writing the html myself.

<h2>Subscribe To Our Newsletter</h2>

<p>Sing up for our monthly newsletter and get the latest financial news, tips, and insights.</p>

Yes I will definitely test it and get back to you on github to see whats causing the issue or narrow it down.

Just something i noticed quickly while testing. It conflicts with Beaver Builder loading the front end editor if your using the block editor for posts and BB for pages.

Thanks Robin,

The update looks good!

On their website under the roadmap for the plugin (might be somewhere on the page) they seem to list this as something they have planed on fixing (also overlaps the admin bar).

Seems to have fixed it. At least for me.