User unable to access Edit Entry with Memberpress

@ Misty

Since you have Form and Link, this can be done in the frontend. Go to the Connections : Settings admin page and click the Display tab. Scroll down to the Results List section and enable the “When this option is enabled a “View My Directory Entry” or “Add My Directory Entry” link will be displayed.” and disable the “When this option is enabled a “Submit New Entry” link will be displayed. When a user clicks this link they will be taken to a page where they can submit their entry to the directory.”

Now scroll a little further to the Entry Actions section and enable the “When this option is enabled a “Edit Entry” link will be displayed. When a user clicks this link they will be taken to a page where they can edit entry.”

That’ll do it. Hope that helps!

@ Misty

Great to hear!

If you have a moment, I would truly appreciate a review as they really do make a difference. Many thanks in advance!

https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/connections

@ Misty

The add entry link will only be shown to the user roles which have the add/edit or the add/edit moderator capabilities on the Connections : Roles admin page.

I am assuming since you have different member groups, you set them up as different roles, right? If you did, then all you need to do is table away the add/edit entry capabilities on the roles for which you do not want the links to show.

If these groups have not been assigned different roles, then doing what you want is not possible. So the only option would be to assign the groups to separate roles to you can set their capabilities separately.

Hope that helps.

@ Misty

re: I’m using Memberpress for my membersite.

Well, that is very odd… many of the membership plugins I’ve run into use roles to define their levels. Guess they do it different. There’s nothing wrong with different as long as it works well. Just unfortunately since they do not use roles it is more complex than it needs to be.

re: I am already using 4 of your plugins to try to make this work. All I wanted was a way for my paid members to be able to share their business/contact info with each other by adding it themselves and being able to edit their own entry.

Which Connections and Link does and is all that is required. You wanted Form so that could be done on the frontend (I’m assuming).

re: Seems like it shouldn’t be so complicated

It is not really. You do have a little more of a complex setup / set of requirements so that does make it a little more complicated than installing Connections/Link and adding a check to a couple checkboxes (explained here and in the installation instructions) … which is all that most others need.

re: I shouldn’t have had to spend weeks & buy and have multiple plugins hogging up my site trying to get this set up correctly…

Actually to counterpoint… bundling all these features into a single plugin which most people do not need or even want while adding unnecessary complexity to the core would be far worse. This way only those that need those features get them. Take Memberpress as an example… they have many add ons (not even counting those from third parties) that can be installed separately from the core plugin. Same thing, they just have a different pricing structure.

The extensions do not hog up the site… they are very feature focused and add very little overhead whatsoever to the site. If these features were part of the core plugin, the same amount of resources would be used. This is a very old myth that the number of plugins slow down WP. It is actually only the quality of the plugin that matter. A single poor plugin can bring a site to its use far more resources than many quality plugins.

Hope I explained things clearly and concisely as to not cause any confusion. Please do not take any offence as none is attended at all. I assure you none is intended, I only wish to comment on a few of the critical points you raised. I’m still here to assist you if you need any further assistance.