Bug #4638
closedCatList Deactivated - Shortcodes Not Working
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Description
Hi,
I am getting the following error message on the plug-in backend of MurphyInstituteBlog.org:
"The plugin list-category-posts/list_cat_posts.php has been deactivated due to an error: Plugin file does not exist."
This plug-in error has resulted in shortcodes not working on:
http://murphyinstituteblog.org/labor-and-community-job-opportunities/
http://murphyinstituteblog.org/jobs-at-murphy/
http://murphyinstituteblog.org/all-opportunities/
Thanks for anything you can do to help.
Leah
Updated by Boone Gorges almost 10 years ago
- Category name set to WordPress Plugins
- Status changed from New to Resolved
- Assignee set to Boone Gorges
- Target version set to Not tracked
Hi Leah - Thanks for reporting this so quickly. The problem stems from the release, about an hour ago, in which the list-category-posts plugin was updated to the latest version. The plugin developer renamed the main plugin file from list_cat_posts.php to list-category-posts.php. WordPress identifies active plugins using this filename, so when the filename was changed, WP assumed that the plugin was deactivated.
I wrote and ran a script that corrected the problem across the network. (https://gist.github.com/boonebgorges/25ba440369b875372656, for future reference.)
The script doesn't work on sites where the plugin has already been deactivated. As you found out, WordPress will deactivate a "lost" plugin when you visit plugins.php. So I've manually reactivated the plugin on the murphyinstituteblog.org website. This probably only affected you, since the release just went live a few minutes ago (and, as noted, you had to visit wp-admin/plugins.php to make the deactivation stick).
Let me know if you continue to have problems.
Updated by Leah Feder almost 10 years ago
Great, thank you so much for the quick fix & reply!