Using the Sandbox plugin on dev.newpathconsulting.com

[asirota]

Getting this error when trying to use the Sandbox plugin on site dev.newpathconsulting.com

[asirota]

this needs to be moved to playground-tools I just realized :)

[bgrgicak]

Thank you for reporting this!

In my testing, it looks like the plugin is broken because of some changes Playground made to exporting.
When I open this page on a site with the Sandobox plugin installed: /wp-admin/tools.php?page=playground&download=1
It downloads a ZIP with PHP files and the database.

The ZIP file doesn't include WordPress files, only themes, plugins...
The blueprint responsible for starting a sandbox seems to expect a full WordPress zip and this is where my site failed to load.

To fix the plugin, we will need to rebuild the blueprint to work with the ZIP content.
The new directory resources could be a good fit for this.

[bgrgicak]

@adamziel this issue makes me wonder if we should even fix the plugin, or if we should remove it from WordPress.org until we can build a fully working version with the sync protocol. What do you think?

[adamziel]

@bgrgicak I wouldn't mind that, but I just saw this:

Warning: Closing a plugin is intended to be a permanent action. There is no way to reopen a plugin without contacting the plugins team.

Let's keep the plugin in there, then, but replace the logic with a notice saying that it doesn't work at the moment, giving full context, and communicating we're going to be fixing it in short to medium term.

I'm thinking of moving that codebase to the core Playground repo maybe two weeks from now to have a central place for incubating all the PHP libraries.

[bgrgicak]

but replace the logic with a notice saying that it doesn't work at the moment, giving full context, and communicating we're going to be fixing it in short to medium term.

I can do both, the fix takes a few minutes, but there should also be a notice that the plugin is broken.