Found WP-Optimize to be a bad plugin that cripples s2Member for some installs

#1

Hi Everyone,

I thought I would let others know if you are having issues with your site and s2Member please check to make sure you do not have WP-Optimize by UpdraftPlus installed.

I was having some issues with a few things that made s2Member not work. I found that WP-Optimize to be the root cause. Even with it not active it still effected the server, the plugin had to be deleted before the system would worked again.

As of June 2017, I suggest staying away from this plugin and possible plugins by this developer on member sites, it is not worth the headaches. I only hope to help others from frustration, I am sure the plugin works great for other sites but I can only say it was a really bad plugin for me as it effected multiple plugins I depend on, not just s2Member.

Ross

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#2

Hmm, that’s not my experience at all, Ross.

I have used WP-Optimize since it was taken over by David Anderson (who is also the developer of UpdraftPlus) precisely because it was taken over by David Anderson. He is one of the best WP developers around, in my opinion, and (like UpdraftPlus, which I also use on all my sites) I have found WP-Optimize to be a real asset. I have not found it to cause any problems with s2Member.

I would suggest contacting David Anderson about the problems you’ve had, and see what he says.

#3

That is strange, what version of PHP are you using?

I had it on 3 installs and removing it by deleting the folder was the only way I could resolve the issue. It was causing all jquery js’ to fail. It worked fine until I updated the server to PHP 7, it was after that point that nothing worked and I looked at everything on all 3 installs and found WP-Optimize to be at fault. What was strange is I had to delete it, deactivating wasn’t enough. I reinstalled it today on one of the test servers and found the same results so it is something with my configuration on the server or something is not right with the plugin and PHP 7.

Ross

#4

I suspect that it’s something to do with your server. I am running it on production sites that have PHP 7.0 and development sites with PHP 7.1, and they are all working flawlessly with it.

#5

I’ll set up an in house Ubuntu server and see what I can find, it could be the host that is having issues if you don’t have issues with yours.

Ross