Only admin can upload, not editor.

The same here, happened after updating to the latest version today – ironically in the changelog it says that this version solves admin problem ??

Yes. It is a big problem. I have 29 editors who must also have the option of inserting GPX files.
Every time there is an update I hope the best. But must roll back to previous version 1.3.16 for it to work.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by ElPrebsi.

Agree, it seems like the upload for “normal” users, non-admins, is currently broken.

Is the Author working on the issue?

The plugin is marked as tested only until 4.9.9. I have last used this functionality many months ago, when it was still working. Maybe it broke during 5.0 updates of WP?

One of my WP users asked me for support yesterday, and I noticed the problem.

Thanks, Herbert

Hi guys,
I had the same issue after plugin’s update but I fixed it by modifying the files within the plugin folder to allow uploads by editors.

You need to make changes in two files :

– wp-gpx-maps_admin_tracks.php
Replace ‘manage_options’ (line 6) by ‘edit_others_pages’

– wp-gpx-maps-admin.php
Replace ‘manage_options’ (lines 15, 17, 35) by ‘edit_others_pages’

et voilà (hoping next update will do it otherwise we will have to do it again).

Agreed, I too am experiencing this issue. In my case, I only have authors on my site, no editors, but I didn’t want them changing the global settings. Here are the changes I made to let authors upload GPS tracks.

--- wp-gpx-maps.php_orig	2019-04-29 21:42:35.000000000 -0400
+++ wp-gpx-maps.php	2019-04-29 21:43:24.000000000 -0400
@@ -41,7 +41,12 @@
     // check to make sure we are on the correct plugin
     if ($file == $this_plugin) {
         // the anchor tag and href to the URL we want. For a "Settings" link, this needs to be the url of your settings page
-        $settings_link = '<a href="' . get_bloginfo('wpurl') . '/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=WP-GPX-Maps">Settings</a>';
+        if ( current_user_can('manage_options') ) {
+            $menu_root = "options-general.php";
+        } else if ( current_user_can('publish_posts') ) {
+            $menu_root = "admin.php";
+        }
+        $settings_link = '<a href="' . get_bloginfo('wpurl') . '/wp-admin/' . $menu_root . '?page=WP-GPX-Maps">Settings</a>';
         // add the link to the list
         array_unshift($links, $settings_link);
     }
--- wp-gpx-maps_admin_tracks.php_orig	2019-04-29 21:28:13.000000000 -0400
+++ wp-gpx-maps_admin_tracks.php	2019-04-29 21:48:06.000000000 -0400
@@ -3,12 +3,17 @@
 	if ( !(is_admin()) )
 		return;

-	$is_admin = current_user_can( 'manage_options' );
+	$is_admin = current_user_can( 'publish_posts' );

 	if ( $is_admin != 1 )
 		return;

 	$gpxRegEx = '/.gpx$/i';
+        if ( current_user_can('manage_options') ){
+            $menu_root = "options-general.php";
+        } else if ( current_user_can('publish_posts') ){
+            $menu_root = "admin.php";
+        }

 	if ( isset($_POST['clearcache']) )
 	{
@@ -29,7 +34,8 @@
 	?>

 		<div class="tablenav top">
-			<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="POST" style="float:left; margin:5px 20px 0 0" action="/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=WP-GPX-Maps">
+<?php
+            echo '<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="POST" style="float:left; margin:5px 20px 0 0" action="' . get_bloginfo('wpurl') . '/wp-admin/' . $menu_root . '?page=WP-GPX-Maps">'; ?>
 				Choose a file to upload: <input name="uploadedfile[]" type="file" onchange="submitgpx(this);" multiple />
 				<?php
 					if ( isset($_FILES['uploadedfile']) )