I am getting email notifications of comments again.
It has been almost a year.
I gave up several months ago being pulled away by life and believing a non-communicative web host had a mysterious setting somewhere they would not admit to.
The quarantine inspired me to take another look. I spent a week reading articles on the problem and getting frustrated implementing complicated solutions that did not work.
I finally decided to shut all 15 of my plugins off. Boom ! Email notifications worked again. I went through each of them one by one turning them on and off to find the culprit.
Fellow WordPress bloggers, do yourself a favor and avoid the plugin called “Replyable” by Postmatic.
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The main reason i’ve avoided WordPress is php. But for your comments issue, i might have gone with a manual binary search. Certainly turning off all the plugins would tell you it’s a plugin issue. But then maybe enable half of them, if it’s easy to do. 15 plugins is only 4 tries. I suppose it could have been a multiple plugin issue though. I’m not really fond of debugging.
At least in Perl, easy things are easy, and impossible things are fairly easy. But debugging other people’s plugins that aren’t protected from each other? The word of the year is ‘ugh’. It’s always lowercase to denote the quiet despair in acceptance of the inevitable. Even at the beginning of a sentence. ugh. This year, everyone has 2020 vision.
The odd thing is that i got to work with a world class programmer whose primary (or maybe only) skill appeared to be debugging. Where i might write a few notes about something i might write, then launch an editor and start typing code, this guy wrote nothing and launched a debugger. An app would appear the the other end of his process. An incredibly well debugged app. While i’ve written a 10,000 line bug free system, the norm is a bug per thousand lines. The claim is that you can get it down to a bug per two thousand lines with considerable effort, but in practice, not so much. That’s why a boast of how many lines of code are in an app is usually not a boast. If (millions-of-lines) { thousands-of-bugs(eek); } The Space Shuttle main code claimed to have achieved a bug per 20,000 lines of code. It is estimated that the Space Shuttle flew with 50 bugs. None of these were known, as this is the statistics. They achieved this by spending $20,000 per line of code. Boeing is having issues with their new rocket. It’s software. I’m sure that this is a project with “the smell of death in it”, as one of the greats of software quality quipped about some project the eventually failed spectacularly. We’ll see. Due diligence was the primary causes of the Ariane V first flight failure. Given that it was based on Ariane IV code, it’s amazing that the Ariane IV was a reliable rocket.