I obviously tried using the built in editor. I’ve been using BPS-Pro for some time.
The symptoms started when I started getting a ton emails telling me that it had autoquarantined a file. Turns out the file being quarantined over and over was htaccess in the root. I then saw the standard message that my root htaccess was unprotected so I went to try to apply the secure htaccess. I would save it, would get a temporary message that my root htaccess was now protected and then it would revert itself and be unprotected again.
You ask me why I would try editing from outside the program and the answer is that BPS Pro wouldn’t let me change the htaccess. It wasn’t until I completely uninstalled BPS pro that I could edit htaccess again without it forcing it to revert to another version of the file.
What’s strange is that it appears there is no real way to turn off quarantine. Even with ARQ off, I couldn’t fix the problem. Something internal to the plugins operation was forcing it to detect a file modification and was even backing up the htaccess file after I had turned ARQ off and deleted all the backups.
I appreciate the security this plugin offers but it sometimes is really time consuming getting everything just right. Is there no way to make some setting manual (like quarantine) for problems like this? In your noble goal of making the plugin more user friendly it seems you’ve taken away some control from those of us who would like to turn some features off. Making quarantine a permanently “on” feature is problematic in this case.
I don’t know if it’s a plugin interaction issue but that’s what’s going on. Right now I’ve deleted the plugin entirely and removed every trace of bps-pro so when I have time to reinstall it the plugin will be fresh because it didn’t completely uninstall itself but let traces in wp-options that were still there when I reinstalled it so the same symptom reappeared the moment I reactivated the plugin.