shout at you hosting provider….after all, it’s them that “did the damage”

although i understand the frustration, there isn’t much point really to voice it here as it wasn’t the fault of the plugin

warning: i do not recommend doing the following as such, but until you find a new / useful host the following might help (but you cannot update wordpress after doing that, so it’s just a possible temporary fix/workaround)

in /wp-includes/ find the file class-phpmailer.php

in that file on approx line 652 you will find a line that reads:

$result = @mail($to, $subject, $body, $header, $params);

change this to be

$result = @mail($to, $subject, $body, $header);

and save.

check if this is working now

again, do at your own risk, keep a backup of the original and test

looks like your server (which is not that surprising given the errors that started this thread) as when i use my settings (which work here just fine) on your server i get timeout errors too.

not much i can do

you mean the smtp settings didnt work when you tested them (what was the error you got in that case) or the orders did not work with those settings ?

>I am using professional plus

then speak top them. this should work (as they are talking about wordpress specifically for that package)

in the meantime – temporarily – try to set the mailer type (wppizza->settings) to plaintext.
the emails wont be that pretty, but it might just make it work while you talk to them

perhaps you can also use the email account /smtp settings for the email you are using to receive orders

that’s caused by your host doing the following (and i suspect they did that 2 days ago after which your emails/orders stopped working):

mail errors:
Could not instantiate mail function.
(
 [type] => 8
 [message] => mail(): Policy restriction in effect. The fifth parameter is disabled on this system
 [file] => /customers/a/f/7/rednaga.co.uk/httpd.www/wp-includes/class-phpmailer.php
 [line] => 652
)

as that 5th parameter is called in wordpress itself, there is nothing i can do

i can only suggest you speak to them as you will otherwise have to hack the WP core files (which is never a good idea)

you could also try using/settings up SMPT (in wppizza->settings), but I am not sure it will allow you to work around this restriction (worth a try though)

seems a reasonably common problem with one.com

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22one.com%22+%22Policy+restriction+in+effect.+The+fifth+parameter+is+disabled+on+this+system%22

>Is it a big deal to remove the grouping feature?
yes

in any event, it makes much more sense to group things anyway i would have thought.
if it says 2x rice , the kitchen will just do 2 portions of rice when they get to the rice listed in the cart and put those into the bag.

if someone added 1x “chop suey”, 1x rice and 1x ice cream, and the second person then adds the same stuff, the kitchen has to go through the list 2 times for every single item , whereas they could just deal with all chop suyes , then all rice and then all ice cream etc etc.

more efficient and faster

if you want to add chop suey plus rice and chop suy plus mushrooms, then perhaps https://support.wp-pizza.com/downloads/wppizza-add-ingredients/ is a better way to offer that

(have a look at the “breakfast example” here – https://support.wp-pizza.com/twentytwelve/our-menu/user/ – imagining replacing bacon with rice, cheese with mushrooms etc etc )

just a suggestion though. it all depends.
suffice to say , the grouping will not change or be made optional as that required way more than just a simple edit

you are misunderstanding the two “restriction boxes”.

they do the same thing, except that one allows you to select items, the other entire categories.

it does not say “apply discount to following menu items” but “menu items in cart must belong to the following menu items for discount to apply”

though i do understand that this might sound similar the meaning is of course quite different.

if you can find a wording that makes this clearer i would be more than happy to hear it.

at the moment, no
(they are also grouped , so if i add “pizza a” , then “desert b” and then “pizza a” again it will be 2x “pizza a” and 1x “dessert b” as opposed to 1x,1x,1x)