Extra whitespace error

  • Resolved jelux

    (@jelux)


    6 months, 1 week ago

    Hi, the UpdraftPlus Backup plugin is giving me a strange error.

    Warning: Your WordPress installation has a problem with emitting extra whitespace. This could corrupt backups downloaded from here. Follow this link for more information.

    Following what’s written on this link, I tried deactivating all the plugins and activating them one at a time, and it seems that the plugin generating the error is WP-Optimize. Is this possible? I’ve attached a link to a GIF.

    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xitB9rSGUfg8JzWW-vg3ZL37BjvCSRbt?usp=sharing

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  • Plugin Support vupdraft

    (@vupdraft)

    6 months, 1 week ago

    Can you post your php error log using a tool such as pastebin.com?

    • This reply was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by threadi.
    • This reply was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Fixed very wrong link
    Moderator threadi

    (@threadi)

    6 months, 1 week ago

    I’m sure you meant https://pastebin.com 🙂 Alternatively: https://gist.github.com

    Thread Starter jelux

    (@jelux)

    6 months, 1 week ago

    Hi, unfortunately I’m not very familiar with these systems and I can’t send the PHP error log. How can I do that? Thank you very much.

    Plugin Support vupdraft

    (@vupdraft)

    6 months ago

    HI, just go to this URL: https://pastebin.com/

    Paste the contents of your php error log (you can do a search and replace to remove your site name if you like)

    Then press “create new paste”

    Finally copy the URL from the address bar and paste it here.

    Thread Starter jelux

    (@jelux)

    6 months ago

    Hi, I’m very nervous and can’t use the site. I’m attaching the error here.

    [24-Sep-2025 22:25:37 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  UDP_Google_Http_REST::decodeHttpResponse(): Implicitly marking parameter $client as nullable is deprecated, the explicit nullable type must be used instead in /web/htdocs/xxxxxx/home/workshop/wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/includes/Google/Http/REST.php on line 73

    Plugin Support vupdraft

    (@vupdraft)

    6 months ago

    Have you got BuddyPress or Beaver builder installed, we often find them outputting whitespace?

    Thread Starter jelux

    (@jelux)

    6 months ago

    no, I have not installed any of these plugins

    Plugin Support Damilare

    (@deabiodun)

    6 months ago

    Hi @jelux!
    You can try the following to resolve the whitespace error.
    1. Check your theme’s functions.php file for any custom code you might have added. Also check custom code snippets, if any is in use on your site.
    2. Temporarily switch to a default WP theme to see if anything changes.
    3. Update your theme and plugins to fix lingering errors.
    4. Disable all other plugins and enable them one after the other, checking in each case which one triggers the error.

    Let us know if any of that helps.

    Regards.

    Thread Starter jelux

    (@jelux)

    5 months, 4 weeks ago

    Hi, it seems that the problem is related to when I put the site in maintenance mode, I don’t know why, for the moment it seems that when I exit maintenance mode the message doesn’t appear

    Plugin Support vupdraft

    (@vupdraft)

    5 months, 4 weeks ago

    Thank you for this, I will have a go at replicating this and if I can, I will pass it onto our development team

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