simanonok

WHY did I wait almost four days for help that never came? I set up the ‘WP Mail SMTP’ plugin in just a couple minutes and it worked right away! Problem solved!

Nevermind, there are too many serious bugs in this plugin so i won’t be using it anyway.

Thank you for your suggestions, but nothing works anymore to enable content protection. Not Advanced Media Files, not Protect Individual Media Files, not even URL protection. Not only that, but even when all protection has been shut off it is necessary to go into /public_html/wp-content/uploads/ and delete or rename the .htaccess file in order to even gain access to the ‘unprotected’ PDF file, Membership 2 does not even take care of that anymore. I have deactivated every plugin that’s even remotely unnecessary and the only plugin deactivation that makes the PDF file accessible again is the Membership 2 plugin, AND I still have to delete or rename .htaccess in /public_html/wp-content/uploads/.

Strange how content protection used to work fine but nothing at all will make it work now.

I am going to have to either A) use another membership plugin with content protection or B) try to use Membership 2 with a separate plugin that only does content protection. Can you recommend what you think might be the best options for BOTH A) and B)?

Excellent, whatever file you select for your Privacy Policy page then works.

Since you basically have two threads going on this page, I too would like to follow up on commontater’s question, because ‘Privacy and Policy’ does look like a typo and makes the page look amateurish as a result. I got a little bit into looking at ‘translation files’ enough to realize it was going to be an incredibly cumbersome process requiring many hours of research and experimentation, ultimately impacting site performance (I want to make the change on my homepage) and making all future edits into kludgy workarounds. That functionality is worth the investment in implementing if you really are translating a site into different languages, but it’s not intended to fix little typos like this.

Instead, this typo should be readily fixable with CSS and it would be easy if it wasn’t for the damn link, which comes out as code displayed on the page and not a clickable link. This was as close as I could get it. NOTE that the way code is displayed below requires horizontal scrolling to see it all. What works better is to highlight all the code and copy it into your text editor so you can see it all at once:

This SHOULD work but doesn't, outputs bare code instead:

<style type="text/css">
   .wpmui-checkbox-caption {visibility: hidden;}
   .wpmui-checkbox-caption:before {
   content: "By creating an account you agree to the sites \003C a href \003D \0022 privacy-policy\002F \0022 \0020 target \003D \0022 \005F blank \0022 \003E Privacy Policy \003C \002F a \003E ";
   visibility:visible;
    }
   .wpmui-checkbox-caption {
      background-color: coral;
    }
</style>

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by simanonok.

Thanks for the idea, but it doesn’t work. What happens when I add ‘pdf’ to the list under Advanced Media Protection, the PDF file then becomes available to anyone with the URL, exactly the result NOT desired.

Close inspection on that settings page shows that it says “Only allow direct access to the following file extensions”, just above the form box where you construct the list. In other words, anything NOT on that list is supposed to be protected. Sorta counterintuitive way to do it but that’s the way it is.

Any other ideas?

Hi Predrag,

Thanks for looking at this, but perhaps you are confusing Membership 2 with another plugin?

The page at https://nukewar.info/wp-admin/admin.php?page=membership2-settings&tab=media (Advanced Media Protection) says this, more or less (wish I could paste a screenshot):

Protect uploaded files
Prevent direct access to your uploaded media files

Only allow direct access to the following file extensions.
jpg,jpeg,png,gif,mp3

We will place .htaccess file into the /wp-content/uploads/ folder to prevent direct access to files other than those defined. Each change in the files needs the htaccess file updated

… Then there’s an ‘Update htaccess’ button below.

You can delete or rename the .htaccess file in that location and pressing the button on this page will recreate it.

Yep that did it, thank you!

WHY do you suppose it’s impossible to discover through any WordPress documentation or Google search that one should not install more than one SMTP plugin on WordPress? Because when you specifically go looking for that information and don’t find it, the only reasonable assumption would be that it shouldn’t make any difference. You’d think every single SMTP plugin author would say something about that too! Why do there have to a bunch of carefully guarded WordPress secrets that are impossible to find out without being or consulting an expert like yourself? How did YOU find this out?

Thanks again for your help!

It appears that the problem may trace to the MySQL databases’s default character set being latin1 instead of UTF-8. How lovely…

lorro, what will ‘non UTF8’ characters look like? Don’t a lot of them LOOK like UTF8’s? I really doubt I’d be able to scan every file of a plugin visually and find every one that might be hidden there. I think my old version of Textpad can be set to force saved files into UTF8 format, so do you think I could I load and resave every file for a plugin to get rid of the problem?

How can it say to the right, “This topic is resolved”? There’s no answer provided and I am having the same problem on my fully-updated version of WordPress. There is no evidence of Support ever seeing this topic.