I have been using Paypal both Payments Standard and Express checkout for years. As of Sunday at midnight, all my orders using Payments Standard get stuck in the initial order status. No payment information is posted to the order nor is the order moved to the status I have configured to move it once the IPN has been received.
In the log all the PS logs show a red icon rather than green. They do not show "VALIDATED" on the bottom. The "_notify-synch" log is also different - only 5 lines r
Thanks Martin, that fixed it for my customer's site.
@saxcbr @Cary @cdetdi @Mac Fly please try copying the above file into your shops.
You can then try resending an IPN from your Paypal account (finding it is tortuous):
log in to PP, hit cog > Account settings
scroll down to website payments on left menu
choose Update next to Instant Payment Notifications
in the middle of the first line of text, hit the link IPN History page
This shows you a list of IPNs, de