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Hi Kima

OK, no problem, just wanted to let you know . Thanks for the update !

Hi @margaretwporg

Yes I totally understand what this forum is about – as you say, to do with problems / howtos of the WP core itself, but I thought I would post anyway.

And thankyou very much for all your links to the developer portals – I will try these — I’m a bit new to the developer side of things …

But if could leave this post open for a while, that’d be great, but otherwise close it when you need to

Ah OK , sorry, will message there instead ..

Hi Jeroen

Thanks for the tip about the Advanced Custom Field plugin. I had never used ACF before. But I have now installed it and everything now works perfectly !

So now in the page editor you just see the textfield for the custom field and that’s it – much simpler visually than WP core custom fields, which looks a mess – one reason being that with WP core CFs the definition of fields is in the same place as entering field values, whereas with ACF the definition of fields is in the Backend and only entry is in the editor.

And with ACF, I don’t have to mess with Theatre plugin files / add a filter etc – it just works out of the box with ACF

Thanks for your help

Hi @iqcomputing

OK great ! – I will download the new version

Regards Regards aldebaran57

Ok thanks

I forgot to emphasise that any translation ready gettext function calls work fine (ie appear in the correct lang) in my cases a) ,b), c) above. And this includes your error message ‘Please verify that you are not a robot’ for the Recaptcha V2 plugin. It’s just that the the Google widget itself does not, because the widget and so the ‘I am not a Robot’ text etc is not part of this gettext API. So it looks like you need to tell it explicitly to react to the latest locale.

Note, I am not sure what the difference is between whats in $locale and what is returned from get_locale(), but the function seems to cover all bases if you look in its source code

Regards aldebaran57

Hi PDA Team

OK, thanks for the clarification

All Clear

Regards @aldebaran57

Hi PDA Team

OK, thanks for your reply !

And thanks for the docs ref defining the 3 types of links – I missed that before …

So to clarify, …

1) When I add to a page a link to a protected file, then the link that is added is ALWAYS the Protected link, ie in your Speak :
https://www.my-domain.com/wp-content/uploads/_pda/year/month/my-protected-file.abc , in either Free or Gold versions .. Yes ?

2) It is then just a question, what file access permissions are set on this file, as to whether or not you can actually can access it via this link on the page. And in the Free version case, it is just non-configurably fixed to “No-One” – Yes ?

3) The Private Download Link is there In the Backend to just copy out from the Backend/Admin and pass to someone by some other means (eg email), if the website owner so desires – Yes ?

Regards @aldebaran57

Hi Samual and Tor-Bjorn,

Thanks for the great answers ! That has explained more than enough the overall picture.

Thanks aldebaran57

Hi everyone again

I could output the reCaptcha V3 scores …

They are totally erratic, swinging between 0.0 and 0.9 when sending the same message fields, one immediately after the other … (not) nice ! And this after 6 weeks of use, since the new year

I could output to a log file the Recaptcha v3 scores by setting up debug, as described in https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Debugging_in_WordPress and adding line error_log(“Score = “. $score); to CF7 plugin file modules/recaptcha.php just before the line $is_human = $threshold < $score;

So I have switched all my contact forms back to reCaptcha V2 as @ben1drg , by installing the addon plugin “Contact Form 7 – reCaptcha v2”, by IQComputing” at : https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wpcf7-recaptcha/

Works fine

Its very quiet from the CF7 plugin author about these problems with rcaptcha v3

Cheers aldebaran57

Hi wp.insider

Oh OK, if that is the intended behavior, then OK .. Sorry, a misunderstanding on my part .. I think you did not have this feature/behavior on a previous SWPM version, so it confused me a bit … but all OK now

Thanks for your help

Regards aldebaran57

Hi mbrsolution

Sorry for the delay …

Just done another test – I have the same problem … I get the green popup saying “Available”, when I enter for a new SM User, a username or email address which is already existing as a WP (not SM) user . Then submit, but it does not save because I see the error message at top saying the username/email address already exists .. So the process is contradictory

For the test :
I have NO OTHER plugins activated, not even any SM add-ons, just the main SM plugin
I cleared the local cache, and also the server side cache
Version : SM = 376 , Core WP = 503

So as said in my previous message, it is not a big problem, but confusing nevertheless

Regards aldebaran57

Hi mbrsolution

I mean a WordPress Administrator does the following in the Backend : He goes to do a) AND intends to do b) AND accidentally does c)

Note a) = WP Membership > Members > Add New / New Member

In short : He tries to create a New SM user, but accidentally with a username and/or email address of an existing WP user

Regards aldebaran57

Hi Mbrsolutions

Thanks for your speedy reply .. that’s great ! .. , and thanks for pointing that plugin out ..

But this is a case of NEW information, not existing information … That is, I have the case where a WP Admin person a) wants to setup / add a NEW SM user in the Backend, ie not let a user register in the Frontend, b) this user is NOT already a WP user (So he does not have any other data to import from WP or SM ), but then c) accidentally enters a username and / or email address of an existing WP user … and then , before hitting submit he sees a green “User/Email Available” popup … um ?

First, do you also get this problem on your setup ?
And secondly, do you agree that this is a problem (at least of ergonomics ) ?

I realise that then, upon pressing the submit / Add New User button, the error message at the top on the panel and the actual NON-creation of the user – is correct, because of the duplicated username/emailaddr . ..

.. But the popup info while entering the data is meant to be helpful, and not as here explicitly UN-helpful …. Better to not have the popups at all, if you are going to show misleading information. Or even better to correct the minor bug

Just trying to help,
Thanks for an otherwise great plugin

Regards aldebaran57

Hello Micah

Thanks for the quick response ! So you found the problem. I tested the updated 2.2.1 version, and now works great, no more disappearing images !

.. I had no idea that the two aspects, media library images and posts, could be related, but it seems they are. I’ve got some WP learning to do

Thanks again
@aldebaran57