andynz

I am testing out CFDB7 1.2.4.5 and have encountered the same problem.

1. I submitted a form in which all fields are entered. The exported CSV is output with columns in the same order as the form fields.

2. I submitted a form in which some check-boxes are null. The exported CSV is output with the columns for null check-boxes following those for all other fields (obviously, this applies to the first form as well).

3. I submitted another form in which all fields are entered. The exported CSV is once again output with all columns in the same order as the form fields.

Conclusion. The order of columns in the CSV depends on whether or not the final record submitted has any null check-boxes. If so, these columns will be moved to the end.

Andy

My host support has finally provided me with a modsec log which seems to confirm your suspicions. He is not very helpful and still insists it is a bug in your plug-in.

I do not seem to be able to attach a file with this post, but here are some of the details in the log:

The log refers to rule 217280
[msg “COMODO WAF: HTTP Request Smuggling Attack
[data “Matched Data: head found within MATCHED_VAR:

Certainly, the use of my word ‘head’ in the text on the form seems to cause a problem, but I assume there must be more to it than that.

Can you explain what is going on here? I could send you the error log if this might help.

Regards
Andy

I have referred the problem to my hosting provider in the hope that an error log might shed light on the problem. In the meantime, I have been carrying out some tests and I find the results puzzling.

The form is structured using html <table> commands and here is a section:

<tr>
<td>
Biography (doc, docx or pdf)
</td>
<td>
[file biography limit:2mb filetypes:doc|docx|pdf]
[file biography limit:2mb filetypes:doc|docx|pdf]
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Head and Shoulders and head Photo (jpg or jpeg)
</td>
<td>
[file photo limit:2mb filetypes:jpg|jpeg]
</td>
</tr>

The problem seems to relate to the line:
Head and Shoulders and head Photo (jpg or jpeg)

The form saves OK if I change it to:
Shoulders and head Photo (jpg or jpeg)
or
Neck and shoulders (jpg or jpeg)

Can anyone explain why the problem only occurs if the phrase begins with ‘Head’?

Andy

Important to point out that the connection with the dropbox server appears to be OK. BackWPup is adding and deleting the backups exactly as expected.

However, I reauthenticated as you suggested but this made no difference.

Further analysis shows that the ‘manage backup archive’ screen in backWPup always lists the two most recent backups (the ones in dropbox), PLUS the one immediately preceding backup (no longer in dropbox). So, if the dropbox settings state: File deletion – 2, then there are always:
2 backups in dropbox
3 backups listed in the archive.

I can live with this.

Andy

Tobias

Thanks for the prompt advice which did the trick.

Do you never sleep!

Regards

Andy

Thanks for the suggestion, but I tried it to no avail. Same 403 message.

The problem seemed to arise when I defined a sub-item as a custom link to a PDF file in my media library. Of course, this may be just coincidence.

Anyway, my fix was to define a new page and use a PDF viewer plugin to embed the pdf document in the page. I then changed the sub-item from a custom link to a link to the new page on the website.

It all works fine now, but it is still a bit of a puzzle.

Andy

I had a similar problem a while ago. I discovered that it only happened on a particular table if the last cell in the last row of the table is empty.

However, I cannot repeat this condition so perhaps something else has changed in the meantime.

Andy

It is pretty clear that the problem is related to the version of WordPress and has nothing to do with my host.

I can upload the docx files to the WP 4.6.7 site if I bypass the WP ‘add media’ panel (eg via the host control panel or filezilla). I can then use the files in WP, but this is just a short-term solution.

I have another website which, because it is not used at present, I could risk updating from 4.6.7 to 4.8.2.
Before the update, the DOX files failed to upload with the security error.
After the update, the DOCX files uploaded OK.

So, it looks like I will have to update WordPress 4.7.6 to 4.8.2 after all.

Andy

Kathryn
Thanks for confirming what I suspected might be the case.
I will stick with Coraline for the time being as it does exactly what I want.

Regards
Andy

I use Coraline on all my websites but I just created a new site and Coraline is no longer available for download. Colinear was offered instead, but I have found one major difference.
In Coraline, I can define the default template as sidebar-content-sidebar and individual pages can select either the default or full-width. As a rule, my home page is sidebar-content-sidebar and all other pages are full-width.
In colinear, it does not appear to be possible to override the default. If I want the home page to be sidebar-content-sidebar, then all pages must follow this structure. Have I missed something?
Of course, I can still download Coraline and install it and hopefully it will continue to work OK.
Andy

Thanks for investigating it.

In fact, what I had hoped would happen is that a private forum which is assigned to a group would be completely hidden from all users who do not belong to the same private group. So, to my mind, the way in which bbpress treats ‘spectators’ is correct – I would like it to treat ‘participants’ in the same way.

This is what I assumed would happen from the BBP Private Groups HELP screen, but I may have misunderstood the *** section:

Public forums titles (and optionally descriptions) visible to logged on and non-logged on users. Private forums set visible to logged on users

DESCRIPTION : Non-logged in will only see group forums that are public, but not access topics/replies. Logged in users will see and access topics/replies for Private Group forums that are set to public, private forums that have no groups set will be accessible to all logged in users,
*** but private group forums that the user does not belong to will be hidden ***

POSSIBLE USAGE : Show some group forums exists, whilst keeping others visible only for private groups. Allows rich display options for each group, and user.

TO SET : Set visibility to public and set any private forums to private in that forum’s attributes (dashboard>forums).

I have what appears to be a similar problem.
Forum xyz defined as PRIVATE and assigned to GROUP 1
User-A defined as PARTICIPANT and under PRIVATE GROUPS, I selected GROUP 2 only
User-B defined as SPECTATOR and under PRIVATE GROUPS, I selected GROUP 2 only

As Users A and B are not in GROUP 1, I would expect that they would not see Forum xyz in the forum index.

If I do not activate forum visibility, then neither User-A nor User-B can see forum xyz in the forum index.

If I do activate forum visibility, then:
User-A (participant) does see forum xyz
User-B (spectator) does not see forum xyz

Regards
Andy

I am planning to switch to tabby responsive tabs as my current plugin is no longer supported and is incompatible with the latest releases of WordPress.

Just one question. I have up to 25 tabs, so the tab headers can occupy 3 rows. My tests with Tabby indicate that this works OK, but is Tabby intended to work this way or is it just a matter of chance (in which case it cannot be guaranteed to work in a future release)?

Regards
Andy

Thanks for the suggestion.
One more rung up the learning curve!

Andy

Hi
Thanks for the suggestion. I will experiment.
The unusual selector is because I have 12 tables with the same structure named dir-wai, dir-auc, dir-wel etc, and it will be helpful to have a single set of CSS statements. This is the only way I could see of defining them with a ‘wildcard’.
Each table appears once on its own page, but there is one page on which all the tables appear and this is when I would like them to look the same.

Regards
Andy