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I’ve activated your ‘SOPA Blackout’ WordPress plugin and checked the ‘test’ box, to see what the blackout looks like…nothing happened on any of my three websites (tried a mulit-site network activate install and also per site activation)…any thoughts?

@ChaisMeyer – the plugin relies on the

hook. If you don’t have this in your template, there will be a problem. If this is the case, get in touch (I’ve sent you an email), let me know what WP functions you are using in your template(s) and I will rustle up a bespoke bit of code for you.

Thanks for the plugin, amazing way to show our support for SOPA from here at DownloadCrunch. Keep up the good work

@maxH – you only have to change the timezone if you want to co-ordinate with the US sites. Leaving timezones option blank will simply go with your default setting.

I have updated the FAQs for the plugin

Thanks Toby for writing this plugin. Do you know if this works for mobile users as well? I use the WPtouch plugin for mobile visitors. Thanks.

Hi,
A client of mine found a problem trying to activate the plugin.

You have three occurrences of short PHP tags.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sopa-blackout-parse-error?replies=2#post-2566137

Mike

@Mike – thanks for that. You know, I felt sure I had left one in, but went through it twice and didn’t spot it. Thanks for the heads up. Changes going up now in version 1.4

Tested this plugin on my local server & it worked fine. Thank you once again and keep up the Good Work. Say NO to SOPA & PIPA.

plugin works great on our site http://www.okayplayer.com and http://www.okayafrica.com but we are getting blanks when using the url without the www.

okayplayer.com
okayafrica.com

way to fix?

@Anita

The only way version 1.4 of the plugin wouldn’t work is if the hook (the function that calls the plugin to load and fire) is being overridden by another theme/plugin/process somehow.

I had issues with WP Super Cache plugin which was bypassing the PHP altogether and serving cached pages, however this is now fixed.

What theme are you using?

Any caching plugins?

What URL are you testing?

If you would like to try and remedy it yourself, you could try finding line 314 of sopablackout.php and change the ‘template_rediect’ bit of the line as seen below:

add_action(‘template_redirect’, ‘sopablackout_content’);

… to one of the following:

muplugins_loaded
plugins_loaded
sanitize_comment_cookies
setup_theme
load_textdomain
after_setup_theme
auth_cookie_malformed
set_current_user
init
widgets_init
register_sidebar
wp_register_sidebar_widget
wp_loaded
parse_request*
send_headers*
parse_query*
pre_get_posts*
posts_selection
wp*

I would start at the bottom and work upwards (please ignore the asterixes when copying and pasting.)

Hey guys,

The plugin works when I’m logged in and have “show to logged in users” enabled, but no other time! I’ll disable my caching but the same lack of blackout occurs when I open a new incognito tab in chrome so I’m not sure what’s up. Any ideas?

Thanks so much, really want to get this up!

UPDATE

I am setting my timezone to 8am East Coast Time (New York), so I can stay open for support requests for longer.

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