[Steven Zahm]

@ Joel

Thanks!, I’m hoping you’ll be as happy with them as I am!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Carl

re: since the upgrade, ALL emails listed in the member directory have a weird “null” after the @ sign now.
This is being caused by the Obfuscate E-mail plugin.

re: I got a message about your entry will be reviewed by moderator or whatever it is … and THEN … it disappears and I get an error that says: “Nonce validation failed” … yes, the word “Nonce” … ehhhh??
Nonce is a real term. It basically means a unique token used only once — number-once :). I use these to prevent spammers.

My guess is you saw the usual “Please wait, your submission is being processed.” message and then the nonce validation message instead of the “We will review and approve your submission soon.” message.

You would see this message if the nonce became invalidated which can happen for a couple of reasons. The time expired or the raw entry data was changed.

re: I have link installed but it is no longer showing the view or add member directory links at the top … they were … but no longer are no matter what I’ve done.
When logged in as you I see the “Add My Directory Entry” link. When logged in as test 5 … I see the “View My Directory Entry” link. However, when logged in as xen 2, I do not see either of the links. Which is really odd, indeed. I deactivated the “Hide Admin Bar From Non-admins” and the admin bar will not show for that user either, but shows for the others.

So something is failing…

I installed “User Roles Editor” and all roles and capabilities seem in order.

I installed the “WP Editor”, make making quick changes to plugins quick and easy.

It seems the WordPress core functions is_user_logged_in() is returning false when the user is logged in. It should return true. Something tells me this is the fault of Digital Access Pass. It seems like it is not actually logging in the WP user. If DAP does not actually log in WP users or does not consistently, well, Link simply can not work and there really is nothing I can do about it, sorry. That would be something for DAP to address.

As a test to verify this, I tried logging directly in WordPress as xen 2. This failed. So, I updated the WP user account of xen 2 with the password and then logged in. I was able to see the “Add My Directory Entry” link, as expected. Now what is interesting, I clicked logout in the menu then logged back in as xen 2 via the member login page (not WordPress) whet to the directory, guess what, now I can the “Add My Directory Entry” link.

So this, I believe, definitely confirms that DAP is not syncing the login and it seems setting the password will actually force DAP to sync.

This could also could explain the nonce validation error.

re: not sending email … still not.
The emails do appear to be sending. I’ve submitted several test entries and in each case I received the auto reply but I did not receive the submission notice email. This seems to be due the the web host blocking email when the to and from are set to the same email address. I’m afraid your host may be one of those. You’ll have to contact them regarding that issue. For now, I hardcoded the from email address to carl@missionmarketingmentors.com. Now, it magically works.

[Steven Zahm]

Sorry, yes, I installed WP Editor and Query Monitor. A couple tools of the trade. I usually delete them I just forgot this time. Apologies. Free free to delete them

[Steven Zahm]

@ Rick

re: Is there a way to easily do the same for the User’s Admin editing screen? WP allows them access in the top menu and the options are overwhelming for most folks. I’d love to disable it and force them to only use Form. You’d have to edit the Connections admin CSS to do the same which would get overwritten on each update meaning you’d have to add it again. It’s probably easier to use a plugin to disable the admin bar:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-bar-disabler/

re: private Because the entry is private the details are private

re: Do you have an addition to the filter that would accomplish this last change? Sorry, no, not really. Who would need to set unlisted, admins only? Maybe added a capability check so admins can set public/private/unlisted will do?
function cn_force_private( $entry ) {

    if ( ! current_user_can('manage_options') ) $entry->setVisibility( 'private' );

    return $entry;
}

add_filter( 'cn_pre_process_add-entry', 'cn_force_private' );
add_filter( 'cn_pre_process_update-entry', 'cn_force_private' );

• This reply was modified 11 years, 10 months ago by Steven Zahm. Reason: Fix code typo

[Steven Zahm]

@ Joel

GD is a server level app (lets call it an app) for image editing such as scaling and cropping.

The images for Connections are uploading just fine, they just can not be scaled and cropped. Same for WordPress. All the previous server move WordPress images are already scaled which is why you do not have further issues with WordPress itself … not sure what would happen if WP actually needed one of the scaled images it creates when updating an image. My guess, a blank spot.

I can recommend a host, SiteGround. I suggest their GoGeek plan:
http://www.siteground.com/wordpress-hosting.htm

And then for caching, instead of W3TC, use WP Rocket. It’s supported by SiteGround and there’s 20% off deal for SiteGround users:
http://blog.siteground.com/wp-rocket/

Disclaimer, I use them as my host and recommend them based on my experience with them. If you do decide to use them, here’s my referral link:
http://www.siteground.com/recommended?referrer_id=6996159

I’ll get a few months free if you do :)

Even if I did not get that perk, I would still recommend them.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Joel

Well, I did at least find a bug which prevented the appropriate error message from being displayed.

The problem is that GD is not installed on the server. You’ll have to contact your new host.

This problem is not isolated to Connections either due to this. As an example, go to your Media Library, click any image and then click the Edit button beneath the image. You’ll notice you’ll just be presented with a broken image icon. That is because WordPress can not edit the image because GD is not installed.

After GD is installed the issues will resolve themselves.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kevin

Oh, wanted to add when I tested to make sure Face Detect was working with the two images, I change the Tile Plus image size to a square, 100px. Without Face Detect, the head was cropped, with, the crop was fine.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kevin

Tile Plus uses its own custom thumbnail size to prevent the layout from being broke from random sizes being entered in the settings. That size is 100x130px. the crop mode is: “Crop and resize proportionally to best fit the specified dimensions, maintaining the aspect ratio.”

The tile size and the image size can both be adjusted. Here are the relevant FAQs.
http://connections-pro.com/faqs/how-do-i-change-the-tile-size/
http://connections-pro.com/faqs/how-do-i-change-the-image-size/

Let me know if that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Brent

Great to hear that solved the problem! took me quite a bit of time to track it down!

re: Is there a way to populate the URL for that photo globally, so we don’t have to browse and select the same photo over and over each time we have a new employee entry?
Yes, there is, see this QuickTip. It’s more of a CSS trick”ery” than a feature, but is works effectively.

Hope that helps!

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

[Steven Zahm]

@ Carl

re: If you could take a look at the site again to see what’s up, that would be great. Let me know if you still have the log in info.
I would but I do not think I have the login, do I??? Are you perhaps communicating under another name too? Any way, if you could sent the login details using the contact link at the bottom of the page, I’ll take a look. Please path a link to this forum thread so I can relate the two.

re: I tried another browser while logged in in another, but still not getting notification
Are they ending up in spam or being clocked anywhere else? The email is sent using the to core wp_mail() function so if WordPress is sending email, so should Connections.

re: missing links for adding/editing entry: I hadn’t changed a thing, but as a test, besides having the required setup according to the instructions (which I had already successfully done), when I also clicked next to “submit new entry” option it DOES show that but still doesn’t show “view my entry” or “add my entry” … I have to admit I don’t understand the difference between the above.
The “Submit New Entry” is a publically available link for anonymous submissions. This is added by the Form extension. The “View My Entry” will only be shown to a user which has had an entry linked to the user by the Link extension. This link will not be shown if there is no link. Instead the “Add My Entry” link will be shown. generally, If you have Link installed, you’re not really going to what the “Submit New Entry” active.

re: One last thing I do need to do though is autopopulate the Biographical Info field with some text that they then add to.
In short this is possible and I guess the best place to add the test would be in this function. File name and path are in the URL.

Hope that helps!

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