The Geek Man

OK, I followed your steps above.

I’m getting an error message.

I can view the page with the PlayBuzz shortcode [playbuzz-hub] no problem. It displays PlayBuzz content properly. But, when that page is selected from the recommend widget, it produces an error when viewed in browser.

“Error.
Oh No!
We’re Sorry, An Error Has Occurred.
Please try again later.”

Also, using this widget, it changes our site favicon to the PlayBuzz favicon. As you might suspect, that’s not acceptable.

Let me know how to proceed, please.

1. Yes, WP text widget with your code
2. Using this code: [playbuzz-section tag=”funny,sweet,adorable,cute,heartfelt,kids”]

I’ve been having the same issue for about 2 weeks. Perhaps an update messed it up, as it was fine before that.

It gets up to “Scanning posts for URL’s in Google’s Safe Browsing List” and then gets stuck there (for days). Always the same step, which it seems others are getting stuck on too despite having plenty of memory.

Any help would be appreciated.

I considered uninstalling and reinstalling, but did not want to lose my settings and blocked IPs.

Thanks. No need for support. I deleted the plugin after getting my site back online.

I wanted to edit the original post, but it wouldn’t let me, and so I posted two additional updates for accuracy and to add some additional details to describe the situation as clearly as possible for those considering the plugin.

I know I appreciate reading such details so I can better understand if a plugin will present a problem for me or if I might want to risk trying it anyway.

Feel free to edit or delete my posts. Next time I’ll just keep it brief with something like “plugin bad, don’t use it.”

My apologies for being wordy.

Update #3: To clarify, plugin did not actually “crash” my server. Rather, it “hung” it. Was still running, just badly.

Also, if programmer fixes this he should post here so I can update my review as needed. I always give second (and third, and fourth, and fifth, lol) chances for sincere programmers to correct issues.

Update #2: OK, I’m back online. The tech said she and her team she was consulting with didn’t know when the processes would end and didn’t want to kill them or I’d risk corrupting my database. Thus, they suggested I wait until it finishes running. I asked them for a time estimate when they thought it might complete. I told them I have over 16,000 pages on my site. They said, “Yeaaaaaaah, you might want to restart it instead of wait for it,” as it could take a while, lol. So, as I had a recent backup, I decided it was okay to kill the MySql process and restart it. I did so and the site came back online. No apparent damage or corruption, but I am downloading a copy of the most recent site backup just in case I find trouble later and need to restore it. I don’t want to find out later I’ve overwritten my last uncorrupted database copy with auto-backups ??

And, just before getting off the phone, the tech again reiterated… “Again, the moral of the story is don’t use this plugin ever again!” Her words, not mine.

Hi René,

I have the same problem with ads disappearing. I needed to disable the plugin (though I paid for your notification service, too).

Geek

Terrific. Thank you. I eagerly await its release.

Thanks for your response. Any idea when that update might be available?

If your rates are competitive, then reach out to me in a few weeks when you’re available. Thanks.

Thanks for responding, Corey.

Again, if there’s any way you can look into how to use your plugin with RSS feed posts, I’d be very grateful.

Yesterday I added email opt-in code as the content for your plugin, and even though it’s only showing on the very few posts I’ve created myself, it has increased my site’s opt-in rate by at least 300% already, which is insane. And, I can see exactly which form on my site the opt-ins are coming from, and the majority are from this new one. This is greatly outperforming my main opt-in form on my homepage, which is very surprising as most people visit my homepage multiple times per site visit. I really work hard to grow my email list and this was a dramatic increase.

Given how few posts this shows up on, I’m very impressed with how effective this is, and I know that if I could have that form show up at the bottom of every post… both RSS and normal posts… that my opt-in rate would skyrocket much further. Anyone’s would.

Please help me if you can. If you can figure out how to do this, you’ll have a KILLER plugin that people will rave about for increasing opt-ins. You might even want to make a new plugin dedicated specifically to easily placing an opt-in form at the bottom of posts… including RSS posts.

Thanks in advance for at least taking a quick look to see if it’s doable.

Thank you, James! I’ll give that a try.

Update, just found a single duplicate of an article from a single feed. Not sure if the above is working. @james, did you put the

global $post;
$tempPost = $post;

where I put mine?

Not sure if correct, but this is what I did and it seems to have helped:

function freshness () {
		global $wpdb;
global $post;
$tempPost = $post;

		if ($this->filtered()) : // This should never happen.
			FeedWordPress::critical_bug('SyndicatedPost', $this, __LINE__, __FILE__);
		endif;

		if (is_null($this->_freshness)) : // Not yet checked and cached.
$guid = $this->post['guid'];
$eguid = $wpdb->escape($this->post['guid']);

$the_query = get_posts(array(
	'fields' => '_synfresh', // id, guid, post_modified_gmt
	'ignore_sticky_posts' => true,
	'guid' => $guid
));

$old_post = NULL;

foreach( $the_query as $post ) :
	setup_postdata($post);
	$old_post = $post;
endforeach;

$post = $tempPost;
setup_postdata($post);

Thanks, James. Fingers crossed here, too. So far, no dupe posts on my site either. I should know by morning if it worked and will be back to thank brndwgn if it did.