Steven Zahm@ Kathleen
RE: I downloaded the ‘Exclude Files from Defer’ plugin per the WP Rocket site:
Add these lines;
$excluded_files[] = '/wp-content/cache/busting/1wp-content/plugins/connections-rot13/cn_rot13-1.1.js'
$excluded_files[] = '/wp-content/cache/busting/1wp-content/plugins/connections-rot13/cn_rot13.js'
$excluded_files[] = '/wp-content/plugins/connections-rot13/cn_rot13.js'
I’m not certain wait is making your scripts load from /cache/busting/1wp-content/ so the first two lines are simply to account for those variations.
After you edit the file and save the changes. Make sure you clear your WP Cache. Also clear whatever plugin that is being used that is causing scripts for your plugins to be loaded from /cache/busting/1wp-content/. I use WP Rocket too so I I do not believe that is being done by it.
RE; I just also tried to update the Connections Widget plugin and received the following errors. Very weird as all other plugins update just fine.
Those are WP errors being generated by the WP plugin updater. The issue is pretty much what the error says. “Could not create directory“. My best guess is that the folder permissions, for whatever reason, WP is not set correctly and WP can not create the folders necessary for the plugin.
You could try deactivating, deleting and reinstalling the plugin. In this case, WP will delete the root plugin folder and then recreate the folder structure upon installation.
Alternatively you could log in to your site with FTP and inspect the folder permissions. The folders should have a permission of 755.
What’s interesting and likely not really relevant is that there are no new folders in any update of the Widget pack for many years now. The folder being mentioned in the error has existed for newly as long as the Widget Pack has been released.
Hopefully this helps, let me know.