[Steven Zahm]

@ Sylvia

I’ve tried loggin in a few different ways, each, time the login fails. Can you double check the login details?

[Sylvia Browder]

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[Steven Zahm]

Well, I did track this down to Wishlist as I suspected. In their main wpm.php file they have this code:

// Do not allow access to Dashboard for non-admins
if ($wpm_current_user->ID && basename(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])) . '/' . basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) == 'wp-admin/index.php' && !(current_user_can('edit_post') || current_user_can('edit_posts')) && !current_user_can('level_8')) {
    header('Location:profile.php');
    exit;
}

This logic will let you get to the Connections Link admin profile page, but that is about it. This code runs early in the WP process. The init hook to be exact. Connections processes its actions add/edit and such on the admin_init action which comes well after the init action.

On your site I made a tweak so the add/edit action happens on the init hook to but at priority 9 this runs before WishList. This allows allows the add/edit actions to run it it seems to work fine but honestly I’m not sure if making this change will break something else in Connections.

Ideally WishList would add a filter so exceptions could be added. But the code as it is is pretty the great wall, nothing is getting around it. Maybe you could communicate that to them???

What I can do… I can create a little code snippet for you that makes the Connections code run sooner and install it tomorrow. Right now, the code was changed in the files which is not a good way to do it because the next Connections update would overwrite the change. The code snippet would be update safe. Does that sound good?

[Sylvia Browder]

Yes, that is fine.

Do you also think it would help if I updated to the newest version of Wishlist? I just don’t want to spend money if it isn’t necessary.

Thank you.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sylvia

re: Do you also think it would help if I updated to the newest version of Wishlist?

No, it is unlikely an update to WishList will address the issue. They would have to specifically add a filter for other devs to add exceptions and I doubt they would do that unless there was a request for it. Maybe you could communicate that to them???

I installed the Code Snippets plugin on your site and added a new snippet which simply just makes the Connections admin functions run before WishList runs only if the current user would fail the check that WishList would run before doing the redirect. That way any negative impact should be marginal, seems to work fine.

Hope that helps!

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

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

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