[Greg]

This will be my first experience with a CBOX OpenLab upgrade.  Before proceeding with the upgrade from 1.2.2 to 1.2.3, thought to ask about expected site rework.  Will there be any changes to current site appearance or functionality?  What content might I lose or what site changes might I have to complete to keep the site as it is now, after the upgrade?

[Sally Everson]

I just upgraded my site to 1.2.3 as well as the WordPress update – and now my site is down. I get a “There has been a critical error on your website” message. Suggestions for how to get it back up?

 

[Bree]

Hi Sally,

I’m so sorry about that. Could you share the URL for your site, please?

Boone or Ray, would you be able to offer any insight into what could have caused the error?

Thanks!

[Sally Everson]

Thanks – I am trying to find ut from host too what might be the problem.

Any help is appreciated as there is an active project going on right now.

https://globalx.junkanooingb.com/education/

[Boone Gorges]

Hi Sally – The error I’m seeing suggests that BuddyPress was not properly updated. This could happen for a number of reasons, most likely that there a momentary glitch on your server while WordPress was in the process of unzipping the plugin files and then moving them to their proper location.

Here’s what I recommend:

1. Download a fresh copy of BuddyPress: https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress.6.3.0.zip
2. Unzip that file
3. Using FTP or whatever tool you’ve got available, navigate on your server to wp-content/plugins/buddypress
4. Replace the contents of wp-content/plugins/buddypress with the contents the BuddyPress zip file (should contain bp-loader.php and class-buddypress.php)

[Sally Everson]

Hi Bree –

I just got this error message now on the site – (maybe you are seeing it):

<b>Notice</b>: Use of undefined constant BP_VERSION – assumed ‘BP_VERSION’ in <b>/home/junkanoo/globalx.junkanooingb.com/education/wp-content/plugins/commons-in-a-box/includes/frontend-bbpress.php</b> on line <b>177</b>

<b>Fatal error</b>: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function OpenLab\Portfolio\Share\openlab_get_group_id_by_blog_id() in /home/junkanoo/globalx.junkanooingb.com/education/wp-content/plugins/openlab-portfolio/src/Share/Service.php:87 Stack trace: #0 /home/junkanoo/globalx.junkanooingb.com/education/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(287): OpenLab\Portfolio\Share\Service->init(”) #1 /home/junkanoo/globalx.junkanooingb.com/education/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(311): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array) #2 /home/junkanoo/globalx.junkanooingb.com/education/wp-includes/plugin.php(478): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #3 /home/junkanoo/globalx.junkanooingb.com/education/wp-includes/template-loader.php(13): do_action(‘template_redire…’) #4 /home/junkanoo/globalx.junkanooingb.com/education/wp-blog-header.php(19): require_once(‘/home/junkanoo/…’) #5 /home/junkanoo/globalx.junkanooingb.com/education/index.php(17): require(‘/home/junkanoo/…’) #6 {main} thrown in <b>/home/junkanoo/globalx.junkanooingb.com/education/wp-content/plugins/openlab-portfolio/src/Share/Service.php</b> on line <b>87</b>
<div class=”wp-die-message”>

There has been a critical error on your website.

</div>

[Sally Everson]

Reclaim Hosting support said it was a Buddy Press problem that he fixed. It seems to be loading now. I am not active on the site myself so will have to find out from users if any other issues. So far it looks okay to me.

His message to me was:

“Thanks for reaching out. It looks like this error was caused by the Buddypress plugin missing some files, but I manually replaced the files and the site now appears to be loading for me.”

[Boone Gorges]

Great, thanks for reporting back!

[Bree]

Hi Sally,

I’m glad your site is back up! I’m not sure if you saw Boone’s message above about BuddyPress not being properly updated, but just FYI. 🙂

[Sally Everson]

Thanks Boone! I must have missed this message and saw the reply from my Reclaim host support. He caught that error and took care of it.

 

[Bree]

Hi Greg,

This release was a maintenance release, that included some bug fixes but no new functionality or changes to site appearance. If you’re interested, you can see what went into the release here: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/milestone/19?closed=1

You shouldn’t lose any site content, but it’s always a good idea to do a backup before doing updates, in case there are any hiccups.

Best,

Bree

[Greg]

Thank you Bree.  Will proceed accordingly to upgrade to 1.2.3.  Thanks too, for the link on changes made – a bit more more detail from that posted within site.

Greg.

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