Settings continuous reload

[jaskipper]

Thanks for the great service, and plugins. I did want to report an issue. The settings page for the plugin continually reloads when the API key isn't loaded. It just keeps giving an error, and reloading. You can stop the reload with the browser stop button. This is in Wordpress 4.7 in PHP 7 by the way.

[sebastianplesciuc]

@jaskipper This issue might be caused by using the plugin with PHP 7.

At this time this plugin does not officially support PHP 7. It is in our backlog though and we'll have this in a future version. We will test the issue you mention then.

[sebastianplesciuc]

@jaskipper This doesn't seem to be caused by PHP 7.0. Are you still experiencing this issue with the latest version of the plugin?

If you do, we might need more information in order to debug this.

PHP Version, Wordpress Version, list of installed plugins and themes would be very helpful.

[tonystech]

If anyone still needs help with this, this issue is caused by your browser auto-filling an unrelated username and/or password, and then it's submitting the form. To fix it, disable auto-fill in your browser's settings.

[sebastianplesciuc]

Thanks @tonystech

That is in fact the solution.

[jaskipper]

@sebastianplesciuc, sorry for not responding to the earlier comment, but yes the issue continued with the latest version. Disabling auto-fill does in fact fix it, although I question why it is submitting the form. Maybe I'm wrong, but I've not noticed autofill submitting any other forms.

[sebastianplesciuc]

@jaskipper This happens because when you enter your API key on the settings page, the form is automatically submitted when you click out of the field. This is because most other settings rely on the API key being set and a lot of users were confused as to why they couldn't change the other settings after entering the API key.

[jaskipper]

@sebastianplesciuc Makes sense. In my opinion, I would think that instead of automatically submitting (creating continuous issues with users who have autofill turned on), some sort of visual cue to submit would be best. It is not ideal for a user to have to change something in their browser in order to make it work correctly, in essence taking away features for other websites as well. Just my opinion. Thanks again for the service and the plugin.

[sebastianplesciuc]

@jaskipper Thank you for the feedback. We appreciate it. We'll take it into consideration.

[thiskbj]

+1 on this request. I tried to change my settings (Chrome) & that still didn't work, was finally able to update settings in a different browser (Safari).

[Akamaozu]

Still experiencing this problem.

I'm a programmer, so I'm used to working around weird behaviors, but this one is particularly hard to work around.

Going to try using a different browser instead.

[Akamaozu]

Thanks for the different browser tip, @katieben. Worked in a different browser.