This site is educational in nature, with the forums supplementing this education as a mini social network within it. However – for multiple reasons which I won’t go into detail here – some of the forums need to be school-specific and should ONLY be accessible to students and teachers associated with that school.

At present, when every new member signs up through our Ultimate Member-generated login form, each user account gains an additional “users_school” meta key generated from our dropdown list.

Up to now, we’ve been able to use this meta key universally amongst the site and the few plugins we’re running to control access to various parts of the site based on school association. After all, it’s the most logical thing to pass via PHP.

However, I haven’t found a way to get the Asgaros Forum plugin to restrict access based on this meta key. Or any user data other than Usergroups.

While I’m aware that Usergroups is an option (even though this restriction seems to be applicable only to boards instead of each forum), these usergroups just aren’t as accessible as meta keys. They’re not accessible in Ultimate Member and so can’t be used as a drop-down field, while manual association on each account post-creation just isn’t an option.

Is there a way (including via PHP) to restrict or allow access to a specific forum, based on a match of a user’s meta key? It seems like a simple enough feature to implement.

Thank you.

(see Asgaros Admin Guide for User Groups – https://www.asgaros.de/docs/administration-guide/user-groups/)

But all my existing users (4,500) must be added to that “Approved” usergroup first. I tried using bulk edit of users but you can only bulk select a page of users at a time. I changed the screen options to show 999 users on a page but when I bulk select the page blows up (the tab disappears in the browser!).

Is there another way to accomplish this? Can someone construct a SQL query with the appropriate fields and actions to use in phpmyadmin?

Many thanks in advance

So I have some weird forum permission issues.

New website registrations are allocated a ‘candidate’ usergroup status.

Candidates have been added to the usergroup to sync and appear to be Synched fine.

However, for some reason. Candidates logged on cannot see user avatars, and clicking a user name (going to mydomain.com/participant/user) results in a 404 error.

Signed in as an admin, and everything works fine.

I checked the standard access allocated to the user group when it was sync’d and there are no options to update the standard access group to allow viewing of members.

However I note that when I go to sync another usergroup , there is a whole heap of member view options that can be assigned. However, these same permissions do not appear to be available when selecting the standard access option via wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpforo-accesses

Should I have selected the appropriate check boxes when I selected the option add usergroup to sync? I assumed they would be pre-populated from the “Default Forum Access” settings?

Thanks in advance

I am currently working with a plugin called PublishPress Permissions to build user groups that only have edit capabilities to certain pages within the site.

The issue I’m having is different user groups are able to circumvent their access level to other pages with the “Quick Edit” toggle in the Nested Pages UI. Also, with Nested Pages activated, all groups can see pages that they do not have access to. If I disable nested pages, everything works properly with my user groups.

I really enjoy the use of Nested Pages and wanted to reach out and see if there is a possible fix. If you need more info on this, let me know!

Cheers.

Got a potential client for whom I want to install a WordPress site if it can accomplish this, so I wanted to ask you:

Is there a way that I can set up a User Group of class of users on my blog I set up with WordPress such that only when someone Registers for a Username as *that* particular class, that they can view “Posts” that I make, where I put up/attach PDF files to the Post, for registered users to download?

The idea is that non-registered uses of the Internet will not be able to access these “Posts” nor download these PDF files, and only when users “Register” and have a username and password at my WordPress site, can they log in and view these “Posts” and download these PDF files.

Is this possible? If so, how do I execute this?

God bless.

–etcbbu

First of all, i’m new to this plugin. The plugin is great and i thank you for this.

I want first to edit the EDIT TEAM, under “Coach” so i can add 6 playernames. ( 6 text boxex ).

is that possible? if yes after i want this:

1) Users who signed up could make their OWN team. They can do only the EDIT TEAM they made.

OR

If this is not possible, is there a plugin where users can make their own group and invite other users? After i can manually add the teams+player info in the leaguemanager.

I want this so users can make their only own team and add the names of the players . the players dont need to sign up , but it’s clear for the league admins if the players who played are legit players.

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/leaguemanager/

I am a long time developer, but new to WP. I’ve been using primarily ExpressionEngine sine its inception, and of course I’ve dabbled in other publishing platforms.

Recently i decided to start using Wp. And I must say, based solely on the community support I am very happy to do this. There are issues I don’t care for, security and groups being the biggest, but I need some help understanding a few things, so I’m here to ask.

1. Image management. Unless I’m mistaken, every image uploaded to WP is just simply dumped into one unsorted, unorganized bucket. is that true? I have a hard time believing that there is no management in this area. What do you do when you start getting 3 and 4 hundred images? I’m already finding it very cumbersome. I’m putting out my first WP site and finding images that were uploaded towards the beginning require constant scrolling, pagination clicks etc. How do most people manage this? I also couldn’t find a plugin when i did a short search for anything that will help me organize this. I need, at a minimum, groups, or categories, but i would really prefer something that uses folders and a configurable hierarchy. I’m shocked that i haven’t been able to find something, so I’m pretty sure that something is amiss. my guess is my approach is just different. I’m not seeing this the way WP sees it. So if someone could help me understand that, how do you manage your images?

2. User groups, and permissions. I also see little to no information about any sort of usergroups, or permissions management. I did find something along the lines of very basic ‘private’ pages, but I need to manage this in numerous different ways. I would like to, at a minimum, have separated usergroups with which I had granular permissions options.

Can someone educate me as a newbie on these two things? i figure I must be just seeing this wrong because these two options seem so obvious, I think I’m not understanding how WP manages the approach to this.

Looking forward to the work! I will say, I picked up the short code stuff immediately, being familiar with tags, especially since I’ve got a 12 year history with EllisLab, they use a similar process, though implemented much differently. But overall I really am liking WordPress and it’s exciting to finally take the plunge into the platform. I didn’t stay away intentionally, I just happened to fall into pMachine in i believe 2002 (which is the predecessor to ExpresseionEngine from EllisLab) and of course I did custom PHP/MySQL development before that. I’m sure I could horn in some custom stuff, but I don’t want to mess with the core functionality before understanding the best practices.

Thanks for any feedback!

Johh

If i am logged in as admin , I can change the custom status of a post without any problems.

However, if I am logged in as Author, I can not change it.

What right/rule do I have to activate for that usergroup (we use “User Role Editor” plugin) to allow “normal contributors to change the custom status of a post ?

Thank you in advance for your help.

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/edit-flow/

User Groups:
Administrators Group – Full permission of course
Moderators Group – informal tours, noticeboard, forum
13 Provincial Individual Members Groups – informal tours for their province BC, etc, social, noticeboard
13 Global Moderators Groups – formal tours for their province, informal tours for their province, noticeboard, forum

Currently the events page looks like this:
https://i.imgur.com/pXpa8B8.jpg

So my idea was. For example: If a user is currently an individual member that can add informal tours for the B.C province.

I want to have it automatically checkmark Tours – Canada and Informal Tours. Then I want the entire event categories section to be hidden from view. But when they submit it, it will choose the appropriate category based on their permissions.

I also want it to hide the “Categories”, “Tags”, “Venues”, “Calendar View” and “Bookings” options under the Events tab. Except for Admins and Global Moderators of course.

And lastly, I want them to be forced to Add a new venue rather than choose from an existing one. This could be done by only showing the + sign or better if the choices just display right away without clicking + sign. And so then I would want it to have the State/Province section only have British Columbia selected from a dropdown list and ensure that upon submission it will stay that way. I currently have code that does this part. I do an if statement in the loop of variables to find the state/province one and then add in a dropdown list so that should be straightforward.

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The second portion would be for the user to be able to see ONLY events that they have created themselves. This could be done in the “All Events” section, or an entirely new dedicated tab could be setup for this. Whichever way is better.

I’m also wondering what file is responsible for displaying the “Event Categories” section for when your creating a new event or editing one? I spent at least an hour looking through files and could not find it.

The absolute deadline for me to get this done is before Monday. This is the last part of my project and I could really use some help on this. Thank you so much.

Any tips and code would be greatly appreciated. Especially for detecting user groups and then hiding things and displaying and allowing them to edit their own events.

Also I got the event organiser pro plugin.

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/event-organiser/

As per post here: https://goo.gl/a2Z6g we are still having issues with users group function.

Basically, there are 2 issues:

1) When there is a Usergroup and one adds some members to it, if one of the members gets updated the whole UG would be resetted. Will end up with 0 users

2) If a member is added (through the Users page) to a UG, once another member gets updated, the UG will end up with only the LATEST member.

I have prepared a youtube video – which can be reached at : https://youtu.be/1HcXuzS1Gms [will be available in an hr or so – slow upload]

Hopefully this would give a clearer picture of what is wrong and can help us move forward.

Many thanks for your help

Wish you and your team a nice Easter

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