Lists names gone after 7.8.0 update

[Matjaž Lesjak]

Hey Stefano. All my lists lost their names after the 7.8.0 update.

Types are now all private (they weren’t before). At least the subscribers are still there. I hope there’s a way to get them back, as I use lists to mark where I imported subscribers from for legal reasons.

[Matjaž Lesjak]

Update: I found, the lists are still saved in the db _options under newsletter_lists, so I can just manually re-enter them. Should I do that, or rather wait for a fix, so I don’t overwrite anything?

[Stefano]

Hi, sorry for this problem, the migration code should have copied the names to the new options set.

Open an admin page of newsletter and change the URL with

?page=newsletter_system_backup

instead of the

?page=newsletter_[something]

The backup of the old options should be listed (probably version 7.7.0), and entering the options details (a full dump) you should find the lists.

I wonder if your installation was so old that lists were not under the option key “newsletter_subscription_lists”, but under an older key.

Let me know!

[Matjaž Lesjak]

Yeah the installation is from 2018. The lists were under _options / newsletter_lists.
?page=newsletter_system_backup gives me a critical error on line newsletter_extension_versions.0. But I got the lists names through phpmyadmin.

Though I cannt seem to save them. I enter them back, hit save, reload page and all is empty again.

[Matjaž Lesjak]

Turned on debug. No error on lists page.

The error on ?page=newsletter_system_backup is

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in /var/www/vhosts/mojprihranek.si/httpdocs/wp-includes/formatting.php:1098 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/vhosts/mojprihranek.si/httpdocs/wp-includes/formatting.php(4600): wp_check_invalid_utf8() #1 /var/www/vhosts/mojprihranek.si/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/system/backup-view.php(55): esc_html() #2 /var/www/vhosts/mojprihranek.si/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/system/backup.php(8): include(‘…’) #3 /var/www/vhosts/mojprihranek.si/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/includes/module-admin.php(189): require(‘…’) #4 /var/www/vhosts/mojprihranek.si/httpdocs/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(308): NewsletterModuleAdmin->menu_page() #5 /var/www/vhosts/mojprihranek.si/httpdocs/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(332): WP_Hook->apply_filters() #6 /var/www/vhosts/mojprihranek.si/httpdocs/wp-includes/plugin.php(517): WP_Hook->do_action() #7 /var/www/vhosts/mojprihranek.si/httpdocs/wp-admin/admin.php(259): do_action() #8 {main} thrown in /var/www/vhosts/mojprihranek.si/httpdocs/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 1098

[Matjaž Lesjak]

Update on this: my other site with identical settings automatically updated to 7.8.2 (skipping .0 and .1) and I don’t have these issues with lists there. (Allthough the error in ?page=newsletter_system_backup is also there).

P. S. Since all lists are prive now on the first site, I get this error on all my subscribe forms: “List “1” added to the form is not configured, skipped. This notice is shown only to administrators to help with configuration.”

[Matjaž Lesjak]

Update: I managed to fix the issue. After looking through the db, I found newsletter_lists field was full of everything but lists. After clearing the value, I was able to re-enter my list names and save it.

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