Don’t Update Easy Admin Color Schemes!
Posted by Mitch Mitchell on Dec 21, 2011
The best thing about having multiple blogs is that if I mess one up for whatever reason I know not to do something to the others, and I can then investigate what the issue was.
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In this case, the problem is with the latest update of Easy Admin Color Schemes. Some of you may remember when I talked about this plugin last year with glowing colors because it allows you to customize your administration area with all sorts of different colors, something that definitely appeals to someone like me, and if your blog has multiple users, each users can change what they see as well. I still think very highly of the program, just to get that out of the way.
However, there seems to be an issue with upgrading to the latest version, 4.0, that I didn’t know about when I updated it on one of my blogs yesterday. That blog totally locked up and said there was an error or line 30 of the plugin. The problem is that I couldn’t get back into the panel to fix it; in essence, the blog was done, over, kaput, unusable by myself and unreachable by anyone else.
First, the reason. It seems the makers of this plugin decided to upgrade it so that it would be compatible with PHP 5.3 or higher. Most of us are still with 5.2 or lower from our hosts, which means we can’t use the newest version of the plugin. I wish they’d told us that up front, but it doesn’t always work that way it seems.
The fix was easy enough. Since I knew which plugin it was I opened up my FTP program, went into the plugins folder on the server, and totally eliminated the Easy Admin Color Schemes program. When it was gone, my blog was back, less colorful on the inside, but working perfectly.
This is always a danger when we update our plugins. I had the same problem with another plugin this summer, though I can’t remember which one, and had to do the same thing. Remember that with some FTP programs you might have to go into each individual folder to delete files before you can delete the folders. At least I knew which plugin gave me the problem; you always have to keep that in mind as well.
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December 21st, 2011 at 11:30 PM
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December 22nd, 2011 at 8:05 PM
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December 24th, 2011 at 12:17 AM
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Mitch Mitchell Reply:
December 22nd, 2011 at 5:00 PM
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Your fix was perfect and quick. Thanks!
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December 22nd, 2011 at 5:01 PM
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It’s not to have some colors in your site. Though it’s not really important but it can add attraction to the eye of the readers.
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Mitch Mitchell Reply:
December 24th, 2011 at 12:24 AM
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I’m James, the developer of the Easy Admin Color Schemes plugin.
First of all, thanks so much for the kind words. I really appreciate it.
Anyway, I just wanted to drop a quick comment to let you, and everyone who reads this, know that I recently quickly released another new version (4.1) that is compatible with older versions of PHP again.
To allow older versions of PHP I went back to prefixing all the function names with “eacs_” like older versions of the plugin had. It’s not ideal from a code cleanliness and maintainability standpoint, but, it should work right on older versions of PHP now.
Hopefully PHP 5.3+ will be supported better in the near future so we can rely on really great features like namespacing. But, until then, the plugin should now work for everyone.
Please feel free to let me know if you like the new version. Also, let me know if you run into any problems or find any bugs. I’m always open to feedback.
My site is down right now because I’m working on a re-design, but, you can contact me at:
mail [AT] jamesdimick [DOT] com
Thanks again for using the plugin. I hope it works well for you.
P.S. I hate to ask but, for those of you who love the plugin, please consider donating if you can. Any amount is appreciated.
http://jamesdimick.com/support-my-work
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December 27th, 2011 at 10:04 AM
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The plugin has several “capabilities” which ensure that only authorized users can mess with the plugin features. By default, the plugin adds these capabilities to anyone with the “administrator” role. Mitch told me that his account is in fact an administrator, so, I’m not sure why the proper “capabilities” were not added to his account.
I will look into this issue further but so far I can’t seem to recreate it myself.
For anyone else having similar issues, and has some spare time, please try installing the Capability Manager
(http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/capsman/) plugin and check to see that your account has the proper permissions.
And again, please feel free to contact me at: mail [AT] jamesdimick [DOT] com
Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused…
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