Hi @sccr410

We couldn’t recreate your issue. We’ve checked the code and it seems quite robust. We’ve had the same code running in at least 3 plugins for years and we haven’t seen this issue there either.

Please check if you disabling other plugins fixes the issue. Please also check your wordpress settings. If possible, spin up a new wordpress installation, install tableberg, and see if you face the same issue.

Hi, can you please share the output of this below snippet?

var_dump($plugin_remote_info);

The output will be quite long, try formatting it as inline code or use github gist/pastebin etc. to share it.

We understand that the value of $plugin_remote_info->versions is NULL. We can clearly see that from your first post. What we’re trying to understand is how this can come to be. In the code, the plugins_api function is used to get plugin info using our plugin slug: tableberg. A published plugin shouldn’t return NULL as its versions. Since it’s been published, at least one version of it obviously exists. I hope you see my point. Therefore, for further clues to help you fix and diagnose your issue, we need to see the value of $plugin_remote_info on your machine.

Are you using wpengine? I ask because I see https://plugin-updates.wpengine.com/ many times in your paste. I’m guessing this is the mirror plugin repository maintained by wpengine.

Okay, so it’s definitely a quirk of WP Engine’s plugin repository mirror. It looks like on their mirror, they do not store the version information of the plugins. I can’t really check – they don’t allow easy access to it and I’m not a WP Engine customer. I don’t understand why a company of WP Engine’s stature has to resort to these strange tactics – it’s unlikely they’re saving a huge amount of storage by omitting this. On the other hand, they’re just creating more hosting provider specific work for us downstream with this undocumented trait of their platfrom. Their size and popularity does not allow us to ignore an issue this.

Thank you so much for sharing this with us and going through all the trouble to get the cause figured out. We’ll need to make a decision on how to address this. I hope you understand. We’ll get back to you ASAP.