I have the WP-Discourse plugin running on a WordPress multisite. Two sites within the network use it for SSO for two different Discourse sites. Other network sites don’t use the plugin. It works fine through version 2.4.6, but beyond that it results in a critical error on the whole network. After th…

[image] John-ISMRM: results in a critical error on the whole network Can you elaborate on that error? [image] John-ISMRM: PHP 5.6.40 EOL over 4 years ago…

[image] John-ISMRM: there are reasons we can’t upgrade either Is there? Quite usually that means same as at least one abandonded custom plugin. Then your real issue is not WP-Discourse, aged broken PHP-version or leaking WordPress — you should fix ASAP that reason why you are using way too ol…

I mean, I’m not proud of it, but there are themes in use on the multisite network that can’t be updated and that break when we’ve tried updating WordPress or PHP. For what it’s worth, our non-multisite websites are all kept up to date, only the multisite is a ****show…

[image] Richard - Communiteq: Can you elaborate on that error? I had to quickly restore the 2.4.6 version of the plugin to fix the site so I don’t have much detail. I’ll see if I can reproduce the problem briefly with logging turned on.

[image] Richard - Communiteq: [image] John-ISMRM: results in a critical error on the whole network Can you elaborate on that error? Here are all the relevant errors and warnings: [06-Jan-2023 18:11:10 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function register_block_type_from_metadata(…

I don’t know anything, but I’ve seen very similar errors on WordPress when PHP is way too old (or too new, that is an issue every now and then too)

[image] John-ISMRM: undefined function register_block_type_from_metadata() That function was introduced in Wordpress 5.5.0 so there you have it. Wordpress 5.5 is over 2.5 years old. You should really address the “reasons” that are blocking you from upgrading and upgrade Wordpress (and PHP). E…

[image] Richard - Communiteq: That function was introduced in Wordpress 5.5.0 so there you have it. Wordpress 5.5 is over 2.5 years old. If that’s the case, and if there’s no intention to make it backwards-compatible as before, then the WP-Discourse plugin page needs to be updated to state “R…

WordPress plugin update kills site (2.4.6 --> 2.4.7 and 2.4.8)

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) January 9, 2023, 5:27pm 10

I don’t know what WP theme you use, but sometimes (I’ve been through it), making a theme PHP 7+ compatible is a matter of a few lines of code to fix.

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WordPress plugin update kills site (2.4.6 --> 2.4.7 and 2.4.8)

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