WP Sales Automator: Garbage characters shown after activation. Here is the fix

Sometimes it can happen that after uploading or importing the plugin WP Sales Automator and the clicking the \\\"activate\\\" button the dashboard looks really starnge any many garbage characters are shown all over the screen.

To get back access to your real dashboard is to remove or rename the folder of this plugin per FTP or file manager in cpanel.

The problem is that some hosting companies i.e. Godaddy hosting have set limitations for their hosting clients and the only work around that the plugin will work at their servers is to add some code to a file called php.ini (php5.ini in case your hosting company has istalled PHP version 5.x.x)

Here are the needed steps to fix that problem:

Check your root folder (most of the time it is the folder public_html) for the file php.ini or php5.ini and download the file, create a backup copy of the file just in case anything goes wrong and open the original file in a text editor like notepad and add the following code:

[Zend]
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.3
zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.3.3
zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.3/ZendExtensionManager.so
zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.3.3/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so

Then save the file with the same file name and overwrite the file at your server. Now you can install the plugin again and now by clicking the \\\"activate\\\" button no problem should occur any longer.

If you cannot find a file called php.ini or php5.ini at your root folder at teh server you can simply create this file by opening your text editor, pasting the code shown above and then save this file as php.ini

Just try it with the name php.ini and upload the file and if the garbage characters are still shown just rename that file to php5.ini