Unable to add/edit other users custom url profile field

  • I’ve created custom profile fields with the Types plugin. I’ve tried other custom profile field plugins as well with no luck so this is not isolated to that plugin.

    One example profile field is labeled “instagram”. When using my admin account I am able to add a plain text url into this field and save as expected. But when I try to edit this field for another user or admin (or any other kind of account) FROM my admin account I get the following error:

    Forbidden

    You don’t have permission to access /test/wp-admin/user-edit.php on this server.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    If I add simple text link “hello” then it won’t produce that error and saves fine but the minute I add https:// it produces the error. This happens from any admin account I create attempting to edit any other users profiles.

    This is not just limited to this one custom field. Other custom profile fields don’t work as well. Oddly enough though, if I give the field a meta name with something involving the word Facebook such as “facebook_test” it will work just fine. If I try “instagram_test” it will fail.

    In attempts to isolate the issue I have installed a fresh copy of wordpress via my cpanel at my root hosting domain (my websites in use are sub domains of that root). There is nothing else on this domain and wordpress is completely default from install except for the plugin mentioned above.

    Thanks for any help at all….

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  • Thread Starter johnsimoneau

    (@johnsimoneau)

    Ok, after further investigation it appears this is a bug with both WP Front End Pro plugin as well as Types plugin. I installed a fresh version of wordpress on a completely different server/host and the problem was still there. I disabled the Types plugin and installed Advanced Custom Fields naming the field the same and it works beautifully. I will notify the author of Types…

    Thread Starter johnsimoneau

    (@johnsimoneau)

    Me again, hopefully someone has some ideas…

    I need to find WHY the Types and Front End Pro plugin won’t work so I can make them work. We believe the reason why Advanced Custom Fields works and the others didn’t when using https://; is because it doesn’t store the data in a 1to1 piece of custom post meta. It stores it in a proprietary serialized array. This means that it’s not the raw https:// that is being saved to the profile meta, so it’s not triggering the problem. The problem forms are just trying to save the string as it is without modification.

    So are there any recommended changes I can make via a php.ini or something that will make things work correctly?

    Thanks

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