MaxBlogPress Revived: Bringing Dead Plugins Back to Life
Wordpress is a great blogging platform and it constantly evolves into new versions.
That’s great but the problem is, everytime the new version releases, hundreds of wordpress plugins breaks. They no longer works. Fortunatley, if the plugin author still have interest in the plugin he/she developed then they’ll release the new version. But not all plugins enjoys such fate. Many of them get abondoned and let them dead when the plugin author never finds the time to devote on fixing the plugin.
I’m quite fortunate in this regard as I’m a programmer myself and it doesn’t matter to me if the author never updates the plugin for the new version. I or my team can fix the problem ourselves.
But normal bloggers don’t enjoy such freedom. If they are relying on a plugin and if it breaks then all they can do is wish that someday the plugin author fix the problem. And you know, for many plugins such wish never comes true. Most plugin authors devote their valuable time in creating a plugin when they have free time. But because of family pressure, requirements to earn and other many reasons a plugin author can’t work on a plugin continuously.
Here is a good news: I’m launching a new project called:
MaxBlogPress Revived
Bringing Dead Plugins Back to Life
Here I’m going to give you same luxury as I have:
- Getting the wordpress plugins fixed which are no longer working due to wordpress udpates and because the original plugin author can’t work on it anymore.
If you have liked a plugin very much but that plugin no longer work in the latest version of the wordpress then you can post about the plugin below. We’ll fix that plugin for free and make it available for download for free to all the wordpress users.
Before making a request for fixing a plugin, please make sure that it’s not a recent problem. If the plugin has broken since some days only then you should wait for the original author to get fixed.
If the plugin has been of no use since lots of days and you are quite sure that the plugin author don’t have time to fix it then please post about it in the comment below. We’ll fix the plugin and make it available.
For example: Wordpress recently released the version 2.8 of wordpress. We won’t be fixing any plugin which has been broken in WP 2.8 as the original author might have plan to update the plugin and might be releasing the new version soon. However if a plugin is broken since WP 2.7 or prior to that then we’ll of course be happy to fix them.
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Sounds like a great idea for free plugins, but do you also fix paid plugins.
No, we don’t fix paid plugins. If you have bought a plugin then the creator of that plugin should take responsibility of fixing the plugin. If you are not satisfied you should ask for the refund.
I have the Psychic Search plugin installed on a few blogs. It isn’t working properly. The search box in general doesnt function anymore.
What a great service! I’m sharing this with my network, thanks!
Hey, this is a fantastic service!!
We are about to release a Wordpress Plugins Guide, I’ll include a link to this post.
Many Thanks
Jerry Holliday
http://www.wppluginsguide.com
Many thanks for this great service. I have a free plug in called “Ultimate plugins Smart Ping Updater”. After it is installed and activated, the ping log displayed a few lines of what looks like error message. “Warning: array_slice() expects parameter 1 to be array, boolean given in /home/knowled2/public_html/components/com_wordpress/wp-content/plugins/ultimate-plugins-smart-update-pinger/ultimate-plugins-smart-update-pinger.php on line 256″
Would it be possible to fix this?
Many thanks again.
Jay,
I’m using WP 2.8.1 on several blogs with Smart Update Pinger and it works fine. It could be that during the upgrade, some of the files became corrupted.
Try downloading a copy, unzipping it and then FTP-ing it back to your site, overwriting the files that are there. I reckon it will then work.
-Frank Haywood
http://www.wpaffiliatepages.com/
many thanks, I will try that.
Great idea that’s sure to be popular, I have around 40 plugins on my main blog and this does cause conflicts, but there are one or two plugins that i have had to disable because the author can’t keep up with WP upgrades.
Will subscribe to your comments feed to keep up, wishing you success
This is a big call and you will definitely win a lot of fans by taking on this project, well done and good on you for taking this on board.
Dude this is an awesome idea. i have not been upgrading to 2.8.1 because of the same reason.
Man i have been following you since some time now and i am impressed that you constantly come up with new ideas to engage your audience way to go.
Amit,
If a plugin gets broken for WP 2.8 only then we probably won’t try to fix it as it’s only been a month since this new version has been released. We should wait for more time for the original other to fix it.
If the plugin doesn’t get fixed by the author for some more months then we’ll of course fix it and make it available.
Hello,
Thanks for this resource.
The plugin I’ve seen break recently with the 2.8 upgrade is:
wp-youtube
It seems like a blog that already had it installed when it was upgraded continues to work but it will not install on a 2.8 blog.
Jeff
What’s the url for this plugin?
I have this plugin on a few of my blogs and have had no problem, here’s one of them….http://personal-finance.web-workathome.com/
Hey, I’ve noticed that too. Since I reactived the wp-youtube I get errors when posting or editing posts.
Will check for more details.
Bart
Big challenge you’re taking on there. I have a feeling you’re going to end up being a bit overwhelmed by requests once the word gets out enough though. There are SO many plugins that haven’t been updated in many versions that I wonder how many people will be asking to have them revived.
In any case - I still think it’s a great idea you have there.
Yes, it’s a big challenge. Even though we can’t fix each and every plugin, we’ll try whatever comes up.
wow!!great idea for free plugins
I am glad that someone finally thought of a solution to the WP plugin problem. Eventhough I only recently created a Blog…. I haven’t installed any plugins as yet… My question is can I continue to use the older version of WP (2.7) and keep the plugins that I have colleced over the last 6 months for the rest of the year. In hope of that some of those authors will eventually update their plugins?…..
Great idea guys, i’ll be sure to re tweet it
Jayen
This is a great news, I really thank you for this great efforts!
[…] MaxBlogPress has setup a program to help bloggers with their outdated Plugins; it’s called ‘MaxBlogPress Revived’. If you have any issue with your actually installed Plugins after a WP upgrade simply let them know and they will try to help with no effort on your part. Learn more about this project and submit the Plugin problem you might have: http://www.maxblogpress.com/blog/219/maxblogpress-revived/ […]
I had trouble with Video Viper. Need that resolved or a suggestion for a good plugin. Would prefer to find one (have looked to no avail) that would load Quicktime also. Thank you for this great service!
Hi,
What a great service!
I’m fairly new to WP and have yet to do an update myself. I am very nervous about it - one, because of the plugin issue. I was told to go and check the page of every plugin or email the developer and ask, to see if it was updated and compatible with the new version of WP *Before* updating. Boy, is that time-consuming pain in the keester!
May I ask if you think the 2.8 upgrade is worth doing? I heard WP was w having problems with it and were releasing a 2.8.1. And what process do you advise for upgrading? Do you un-install all plugins, make a back-up, and then install the new version via Fantastico, then re-activate all plugins?
Is there an easier way to do this? Do you have a blog post about the best way to update to new versions of WP?
I suggest to stick with wp 2.7 for a while and only after some months upgrade to 2.8.
This is absolutely AWESOME!
Tweeting this for sure!!
The broken plugin is Photodropper. It used to work well and then with the upgrade, it no longer works.
http://www.photodropper.com/wordpress-plugin/
Adsense Deluxe has not been updated for awhile and the author no longer maintains it. No updates since 2006. I am sure many people use this plugin and can not upgrade to WP 2.8 because of it, me for example.
Wow great idea bos. I have one favorite plugin named wp easy uploader, i always use it every time i create a brand new blog. Dont know why this great plugin discontinue. Since i was off from blogging so i dont know if this plugin works on wp 2.8 or not. I checked the plugin on wordpress.org this noon, and still not up to date, last time it updated was about last year, what?
Hi Benlahmen. I’m the developer of WP Easy Uploader. It hasn’t seen any love in a while since much of the functionality is now present in the core of WordPress.
Even though I haven’t updated anything in a while, it is still fully functional with the latest versions of WordPress. I’ve even tested it with 2.8.1. The main difference is you will now find the Upload Files link under Tools rather than the old Manage menu.
I’ll spend time this week updating the status on the Extend area of wordpress.org and updating the notes on the site to be relevant to the latest version of WordPress. Please contact me directly if you’d like any additional assistance.
Thanks bos for quick respond. I use it in my brand new blog now (and will always use it because i hate login to cpanel or ftp). I just downloaded it and activated it and working like it didn’t care if wordpress has just upgraded. Great plugin, just upgrading to the newest version of it, working fine.
Oh almost forgot, i will share this great idea with my network. Good luck bos.
This is fantastic, you have some great pluggins and now your offering to fix other. what a great service your offering.
thanks
Another vote for Adsense Deluxe please
thanks
:O This is so bold it just might work! I wonder how many projects you’ll have on wordpress extend by the time this is up? hehehe!
This is great and I don’t mean to sound unappreciative but waiting a couple months is too long. If a month has passed and the original author is unresponsive or unwilling to update his or her plugin, I delete it and find a substitute or just do with out it.
Suggestion: Why not offer a paid contribution option where a certain plugin could be prioritized and moved to the top for repair? For example I use ad rotator on many sites but it no longer works in multi-mode in the widgets area after upgrade to 2.8 ( multiple instance of the plugin can’t be selected). I’d pay to get that fixed. The author of the plugin won’t even communicate with users on his blog about his intentions to repair it or not.
Just a thought and again, not to come across as unappreciative. It’s amazing you would volunteer your time to fix plugins. Thanks!
Steve,
Thanks for commenting. You’ve made some good points.
First of all I won’t be starting any paid contribution service as it will distract us from the vision I have for this MaxBlogPress Revived project. I’ll consider that as an option but I don’t think we will be going that way.
The reason I want to wait a while before updating a plugin is because the plugin author might have intention to update the plugin soon. If I do the update first then there will be two versions flowing around the web which I don’t want.
By the way, what’s the url of the “ad rotator” plugin you are taking about? I might consider to update it very soon and make it available for download.
Also, you might want to check out Max Banner Ads plugin from us. I’m quite sure you can have same functions as ad rotator and more in the max banner ads plugin.
Thanks for doing this for us!
A generous offer and much appreciated. There is another issue here though and that is plugins no longer required because updates to Wordpress have meant they have been superseded.
It can be very difficult to tell so perhaps you could build a list of these when you receive a repair request for one that is no longer relevant.
Kudos to you guys once again. Your plug ins are some of the best and I’ve used them on all my blogs. You’ve stepped up the game this time by offering to fix other people’s plug ins— Can You say “Hero”? I’ll be sure to pass this on to my clients.
Excellent idea!
Are you going to create a directory of fixed plugins?
Not exactly a directory but there will be a centralized place where you can browse all the plugins we have fixed. Also, there will be a separate forum thread for each plugins so you all contribute there and share ideas/tips/problems regarding the plugin.
Pawan,
This is marketing genius on the scale of X-Factor and Pop Idol. My hat is off to you and I bow deeply.
People tell you what their favourite plugins are, and that they are no longer being developed. You take on the development of those older (but popular) plugins, and in doing so they become yours.
So… Other people do the market research for you, you get to pick and choose the ones you want to do and we ALL reap the benefits. But especially you.
A true win-win, which is what I love.
Excellent stuff, and very, VERY clever. I’m off to blog about this.
All the best,
Frank Haywood
http://www.wpaffiliatepages.com/
Done.
http://www.frankhaywood.com/marketing-genius-dont-you-just-love-it/
What a generous service. I’m off to send this to my network.
Thanks so much!
Thank you for offering this service.It’s good to see people giving back!
my ‘Post Footer’ plugin no longer works after I upgraded, can you help?
The plugins I’ve loved but had to uninstall on some of my blogs because they break the back end (I suspect it could be a plugin compatibility issue) include:
Psychic Search
Ninja Affiliate
Headspace 2
FAQtastic
Thing is, people are still updating these plugins, but they still won’t work on some blogs. Erg.
I’m not sure about other plugins but I’m quite sure Ninja Affiliate does work in all the new versions of wordpress. Have you upgraded the ninja affiliate to its latest version? If not please login to your customer account and download the new version.
Plugin Name: PodPress
Plugin URL: http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/
Problem: The way WordPress now stores revisions of changes ends up causing podPress settings to get out of sync with the latest post content.
Sam,
I manage a lot of sites with podcasts, and when the revisions were introduced to WP, it caused a lot of problems, but there are two workarounds.
Try WP_CMS Post Control and select “Turn off revisions”, and your podcast posts should be just fine. As an added bonus, I’ve also added the line
define('AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL', 1800);to the wp-config file for a little extra added backupThere was an interim release, version 8.8.1, that came out after 2.7 was released to deal with the revisions issue, but yes, the complete overhaul of the plugin is going a lot slower than they’d hoped. If the MaxBlogPress team can help them out, big win all around!
I’m glad I stumbled across this article!
Hi Pawan -
Wow - what a generous offer and at the same time a very smart idea to become even more visible on the internet ( if that’s possible -
). I use some of your plugins. I recently (yesterday) did a WP upgrade. I didn’t go all the way to 2.8 but some of the still supported plugins are not playing nice.
The plugins I got from you are working
Including Ninja Affiliate. I have always been impressed with your plugins, your excellent support and how you do business in general. Now you surprise me again. A+++++
Thanks and always grateful - John Collins
I have been having trouble with maxblogpress ping optimizer not wanting to ping.
Thanks,
Diane
Hi Max, I hope you don’t mind me referring to max, anyhow i have always regarded you as a true professional and not a money hungry pusher. This offer and service you offer just confirms it even more.
I commend you and thank God that their are still a few good men left and worthy of doing business with, you are a just example and model i want to follow and hope i can become as successful as you.
thanks Max.
Amazing idea. I’m sure there are going to be a tons of requests coming your way.
I’ll put out a couple of links and posts about this to my group.
Now, what about WP MU? This failing plugins issue will come for sure when the people start upgrading to MU 2.81 too.
You’ve just won yourself a whole new niche…
Well done.
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Like/Dislike post and comment ratings plugins! *there are two, twins, one for comments, one for posts*
Died in 2.8 upgrade, never checked for an update, but they are good plugins shame they broke! Thanks for this MBP!
Great idea…but how about updating your own plugins first? Like MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad? Thanks!
The plugin “admin-menus” hasn’t worked since WP 2.5. I really liked the plugin because it made the dashboard so much easier to navigate. Andy Staines is the author but if you click on the link to his website from the plugin it just takes you to Simple Press Forum. http://simplepressforum.com/
Would love to see this plugin working again. Thanks!
A great alternative is Admin dropdown menus - also found here.
Andy has said long ago that he will concentrate just on the SimplePress forum plugin, a superb piece of forum software, by the way
Kjetil
I have a problem with Max Banner Ads plugin
It won’t auto up date. None of the websites I have the plugin loaded in will update. When I click on ‘upgrade automatically’ it takes me to a 404 page in my website. In all my sites the plugin version is remaining at 1.3.1. I have one that is 1.3.6 but I see the latest version is 1.4. Any suggestions?
Cheers
Viv
I had the same problem on my blogs, the only way out of it was to upload the latest version via FTP and over write the original, then you just need to set the widget from the drop down menu in widgets admin. You wont loose any data.
Hi Bill
Did you deactivate the plugin before dropping the latest version over it?
Cheers
Viv
Hello Viv, No i didn’t need to deactivate the old version, but this wouldn’t be a problem as the new version will take its place, as long as you check the overwrite all box that pops up when you FTP it.
Hopes this helps
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Plugin Name:Posthaste
Adds the post box from the Prologue theme (modified to include a Title field and Category dropbox) to any theme.
This plugin reuses much code from the Prologue theme according to the terms of the GNU General Public License. So a big thanks to the authors of Prologue, Joseph Scott and Matt Thomas.
Plugin URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posthaste/
Describe the problem this plugin have: Wordpress 2.8 works well… but does not work within the smells like facebook theme… is there anything you can do? Let me know if you want a copy of the index to see the loop…. (I had to add an “if” to the loop to see if it would help it) it does not…
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do you wanna publish a plugin guide? I only use your ping optimizer, that’s most popular plugin of yours.
Great idea!
I’m sure a lot of people will benefit from this. I have just upgraded my blog to 2.8.1 and luckily I don’t face any issue with the plugins I am using. I have a problem before with Alex’s popular post plugin when upgraded to 2.7, but found another that can replace it. If you offered this at that time, it would really save me some time.
Here’s a great plug-in that needs reviving. I was at their site tonight to see if its been updated and they are seeking help… so if you can help them you’d be helping me and lots like me… thanks!
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Plugin Name: PodPress
Plugin URL: http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/
Describe the problem this plugin have: Has not been updated since WP version 2.1x
Way long time ago..
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Thanks!
I recently tried a spell check plugin called gospress which seemed to be so fast but I dont know if its broken or not but once you fix all the spelling on another screen on top of the real one, theres no way to get it to transfer to the original screen below.
It seems like its a great spell check plugin (very fast) much better than the one with wordpress but there seems to be no sign of life from the creator and I dont know if the plugin is broken or I just dont know how to finish using it
I just found this plugin and really want to try it but the latest tested version was 2.6.1 and I am using 2.8.1
AskApache Password Protect
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/askapache-password-protect/
I went ahead and installed it and ran the test just to see if it would work but I get many errors.
Problem is I don’t know if the errors are because of the plugin being outdated or if it’s a problem with my web host. I am hoping fixing the plugin will help, if you can do this, then any remaining errors I will contact my web host about.
Thank you for offering to fix outdated plugins. This is great!
Hi Pawan Agrawal, I’d subscribed some months ago and watch your e-mails with more and more increasing interest. This project is really cool. The only thing I would like to say is: “You should offer to fix WordPress Core…” - Unfortunately at almost any new update new problems occur. I am working with WordPress for about 18 months and updated to WordPress 2.8.1 for the first time with Auto-Update. Now it is not possible to update ANY plugin within WordPress. All of them I have to be updated manually… Best, Wulffy
Hi,
Great idea and great service. The only problem I have at the moment is trying to get the owner of a free plugin to create html to paste where I want the plugin to work, rather than just activated through the control panel. Is this something you could do ?
Keep up the good work !
Great idea - will let you know when I have a problem:-)
Does anyone know a good two way link exchange plugin? Found one but documentation is non-existant so don’t know how to use it properly! - does that count as a dead plugin???
Alec, can you please mention that plugin’s name and URL.
Hi Suman
See http://www.alectang.com/wordpress-link-directory/
Regards
Alec
Pawan, I have been using your plugins for some time now and you have been great, but this service takes you and your credibility to a whole new level. I will be on the lookout for plugins to present to you, but none at this time.
Thank you so much for your contribution to both WordPress and the WordPress community, I commend you.
Ralph Justice
The commentluv plugin has never worked for me for some reason. Would be nice if it did because it’s a great idea.
Love your blog, by the way. Great info here!
I am using wordpress 2.7 and your plugin MBP favicon. Why is it that my favicon will show up in the about page but not in the home page? Any ideas on how I can make the favicon appear on all pages? I am using IE7 ..
Thanks
Dr. Anthony
Thanks. for services me
Hello Pawan Agrawal,
Hello Pawan Agrawal, I bought the Ninja affiliate plugin, but it was more expensive for me because of an additional tax of €13.90. Is it possible to ask refund of this tax? It really made me upset to pay addtional tax…
For the past few months the wp-db-backup plugin no longer automatically backs up my data base and emails it to me. I have contacted my webhost(DreamHost) as this occurred very close to the time they made some changes but they said they could not fix it. I have tried to remove the plugin and reinstall but no luck.
I am currently manually backing up my data base. I was using WP 2.7 when this started. I have upgraded to 2.8.2. Can you offer any help?
Hi Sherry,
You need the much better plugin from Lester Chan - WP-DBManager. In fact he’s written some completely awesome plugins and I use several of them on some of my own blogs.
You can get them all from here:-
http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/
HTH
Frank Haywood
http://www.wpaffiliatepages.com/
What about openid?
Oh, wait a moment, that never worked in any version.
Caffeinated Content — http://www.caffeinatedcontent.org/
Doesn’t work and isn’t supported anymore and doesn’t exactly fit the “free plugin” criteria however if you could rewrite it to work properly then not only will I buy it but I know a horde of more people who will.
I realize your all about the charity but if you could bring back this plugin… or get
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-o-matic/
to work in the current version of wordpress I see big money in your future.
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Plugin URL: http://noumenon.roderickrussell.com/myspace-crossposter-v2-released
Describe the problem this plugin have: Well, doesn’t post to MySpace at all actually. Just .. does nothing.
Plugin URL: http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/xanga-crosspost/
Describe the problem this plugin have: As with the MySpace Crossposter the plugin stopped working after a while. It worked in 2.6 but after a while .. dead.
wp-limit-posts-automatically
available from:
http://www.jenst.se/2007/12/03/wp-limit-posts-automatically/
Mostly, this plugin will distort the layout and bring the sidebar to the bottom of the main index page.
(I’ve been noticing a few “wp-” plugins that conflict with many other plugins - I don’t suppose you would know why this is??)
Thanks very much for inviting us to bring our dud plugins to you! Just another reason why this blog has been a great “discovery” for me.
I also appreciate that you’re posting all of the updated plugins …for those of us who were unaware of some really cool apps. THANKS, guys!
this may conflict with your ninja plug in, but the free version which works on my 2.7 blogs is crosslinker . . . nicest feature is to import export all keywords to and from blogs with attributes……this was one of my favorite and I can’t believe I updated without thinking much about it and now hyperlinking all my keywords takes so so so much time….no response from the actual builders either….
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cross-linker/
sorry there’s the link to the plug in
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Hi Guys
thank you for addressing this problem with dead plugins - No more fear of updating when you guys are around. It is really a nice gesture and I’ll proudly announce to my list, that maxblogpress is the place to subscribe to.
I enjoy each and everyone of your blog posts. Very educational
thank you - I really appriciate your effort
Best Wishes
Tina Lindgren
Thanks a lot for making an effort with maybe the biggest problem on the WP platform.
Post-thumb revisited is a very nice plugin which regrettably hasn’t been updated beyond WP2.5.1. (With WP2.6.x the functionality still works but the settings page only partly works - beyond 2.6 nothing works).
Among many other things, PTR’s main function is to generate a (clickable) thumbnail from the top image in a post. It gives a very nice look on your post list and also a nice intuitive way to open the post.
The thumbnail is generated once, the first time the post list is opened - which after that is opened very quickly.
It is also easy to implement in existing sites because you don’t have to eg. re-save posts to make the thumb appear.
There are similar plugins for eg related posts, but nothing like this.
It would be helpful to many blog owners if you could bring it back to life.
Thanks,
Kjetil
- dolcevita.no
- stuck on WP 2.6 while searching everywhere for an alternative
Hi,
Can you fix the Feed Statistics plugin? I love this plugin as it allows me to display my feed subscribers without being forced to farm out to Google. But the plugin has not been working correctly since at least WP 2.7
http://www.chrisfinke.com/wordpress/plugins/feed-statistics/
your adsense plugin is absolutely horrible and confusing. it makes NO sense and your instructions are useless. I would re-do this plugin and make it understandable for humans instead of robots.
I cannot get any images to appear in my sidebar on my website using “Affiliate Image Tracker 2.0″ . I am using wordpress 2.8.4
Hi your plugin “front page by category” doesn’t work as it should. I choose only one category under the settings, but it shows me two other ones… My wordpress version is 2.8.2. Could you please take a look into this? Thank you.
gentlemen. It’s near a quarter past 7pm on a Saturday night. I’d like nothing more to sit here and detail for you every plugin I know of and have encountered that is flat broke, but then I’d not only not make the pub before closing tonight, but I may as well miss work on Monday.
Yep, its worse than you thought. In my experience more than 50% of wordpress plugins dont work out of the box.
Message to WP developers: Do something right or don’t do it at all
I installed your Banner Plugin yet have received this Error
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/myreview/public_html/wp-content/plugins/banner-ads/banner-ads.php on line 153
Due to the above i can’t get the banner to show up.
What is the correction to this error ?