Mike Burns

Sorry for the radio silence on this thread — I assure you that the plugin is not dead.

We’re in the middle of testing it for compatibility with 4.1 as part of our own upgrade cycle and will be updating the “Compatible up to” version to reflect this shortly. (This goes for all of the BU plugins).

This issue has been resolved as of the 1.2 release.

When you say “any page move causes it to go to the top level” do you mean you can’t drag pages under others, or you can but when you click “Publish Changes” the new structure isn’t saved?

What browser are you using?

The navigation links are saved in admin/manager.php. There are two methods in the BU_Navigation_Admin_Manager class — process_insertions and process_updates that persist link data to posts / postmeta tables.

What are you trying to do? I’d advise against editing plugin code directly — if there is an action / filter that is missing that you would find useful I’d recommend filing an enhancement request via the Github repository.

Out of the box this plugin only supports public hierarchical post types (i.e. Pages, rather than Posts). The tree view that it presents on the “Edit Order” screen was built to solve UX problems introduced by large page hierarchies. It’s really just a more usable interface to replace the built-in “Page Attributes” meta box — specifically the “Parent” drop down and “Order” input.

Both the WooCommerce and Events Manager register their post types as non-hierarchical, and there is no interface exposed to set post parent / menu order. As such they do not use those fields when deciding how to present events or products on the front-end. Setting an explicit menu order on an event doesn’t make much sense anyways, as generally you’re going to want to list those by event date.

Though it is technically possible to give you an “Edit Order” screen for those post types (this plugin exposes a filter for this purpose– “bu_navigation_post_types”), it’s not really going to add any value for you.

The expected behavior after clicking the “Replace Original” button on an alternate version is to be redirected to the “Edit Page” screen for the original page with a notification that reads:

“The alternate version has replaced the data of this post and been deleted.”

From that point on you will no longer be able to edit the alternate version, as the notification indicates.

When you say “I get https://www.site.edu/?page_alt=applynow” what exactly are you referring to? Where does that link appear?

This plugin should be fully functional in 3.8.

I’m not certain what the WPLOOK Main Menu is, or how it relates to the functionality this plugin provides. I will say that navigation menu styles on front-end pages (meaning non-WordPress admin) are completely theme dependent. We don’t provide any styles in the plugin.

In order for a theme to support display / management of the primary navigation menu by this plugin it must be configured to support it:
https://github.com/bu-ist/bu-navigation/wiki/Adding-Theme-Support-for-Primary-Navigation-Menus

When that is done you will see a “Primary Navigation” menu item under “Appearance” where you can configure cut-offs as you describe — e.g. “Don’t show more than 6 items in the primary navigation menu” — in addition to a few other options.

Hope this helps!

Can you provide a bit more detail?

Which navigation admin “panel” are you talking about specifically? Also, things like browser, WP version, etc.?

Thanks for reporting this issue. I have confirmed the behavior you describe and added a bug to our Github issue tracker:
https://github.com/bu-ist/bu-navigation/issues/5

We will work to fix it in the next release.

Thank you for reporting this issue — you are correct that the cause is our use of custom “alternate” post types.

I have filed this as an issue in our Github repos, and we will address in our next release.
https://github.com/bu-ist/bu-versions/issues/10

The plugin does support hierarchical custom post types. Flat post types are not supported at this time. Filtering by status is definitely something we have in mind as a future enhancement.

Glad to hear you’re enjoying the plugins. Lots of good questions — some responses by number…

1. If you’re running WP >= 3.2 section editors will get an “Editable” view above the admin edit post tables. This will filter the table to only display rows that the current user can edit (editable sections + unpublished content).

2, 3. Both of these are possible today through the use of custom roles. The section editing plugin stands on top of the built-in Roles and Capabilities system, and was designed in a way that enables developers and site administrators to tweak “section editing” privileges by defining custom roles that integrate with the plugin.

For site administrators, you can use a role management plugin (such as the excellent Members) to create custom section editing-ready roles through the WP admin interface.

If you’re a developer, you can achieve the same result through code. Check out this Wiki page for more information:
https://github.com/bu-ist/bu-section-editing/wiki/Custom-Section-Editing-Roles.

To achieve #2, you can restore capabilities that are removed for the “Section Editor” role by default (“edit_published_posts “, “delete_published_posts , etc.) to lift section editing restrictions for specific post types. Custom roles also allow for #3 — for instance, if a role doesn’t have the “edit_posts” capability, the “Posts” admin menu item will not display at all. Custom roles empower you to define exactly what users of your role are permitted to do throughout the WP admin interface.

4. Not at this time. Users who cannot publish content (such as section editors without adequate permissions) can clone pages, make edits, and then “Submit for Review” to place them in a “Pending” bucket for the “Alternate Pages” screen. Administrators can then work through the “Pending” view to review content and either revert to draft status or replace original content. This was one of the workflows we envisioned when designing both plugins. But to your question, no notifications are set up at this time.

Thanks for your questions!