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@sjf: I’m sorry to leave you hanging and to provide you with an unsatisfactory answer but we just stopped using comments ahah. I DID find a workaround when we were going the comments route in these support forums, so search the threads. Sorry for such a shitty answer but I can’t quite recall.

We were unsatisfied with this not being removed sooner. I have never really seen a plugin add an intrusive button to the screen for non-admins like this and then been told to just chill with it. We have uninstalled your plugin and now exclusively use Optin Forms (https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/optin-forms/).

i wonder if it has to do with “wp-admin/post.php” at all, but then again it happens for save draft as well as preview..

Optin Cat button in post editor – thanks for the suggestion. I’ll keep this in mind for a future update, but I want to see if other people complain about it first.

That is… fair enough, but think of it from a multi-author perspective: many sites have authors that log in to solely create posts, and have no need to insert opt-in forms. For these sites, it is the admin’s/webmaster’s job to maintain the design and layout, so it makes no sense for use levels like ‘author’ and ‘contributor’ to have access to this feature. It’s like putting a post editor button for a cache plugin, or a custom post type creation button or something like that. These are plugins that non-admins really just have no business or need having access to, and why literally 95% of plugins I’ve used do not add a button to this screen. If you do want to add something, I would ask that you do one of two things to be courteous to plugin users:

1. Make the addition a metabox so we can turn it off for certain user levels more easily (many plugins can easily target metaboxes, but I haven’t come across one that targets buttons)

2. Make an on/off toggle in the settings page for individual user levels, set by the admin. (Please remember to include capabilities for custom post types).

The basic theme of these two points is just to make it easy for admins like me to manage this button in a multi-author sites.

Thank you, and I hope to see something that makes managing this new addition easier.

Damnnit… and now there is a button for optin forms that shows for ALL USERS in the post creation screen beside “add media”. PLEASE TAKE THIS AWAY FOR NON-ADMINS, or make some options to toggle it off and on for certain user levels on the admins. Is there any way to revert BACK to before the update? These are very unwelcomed changes.

It is known, Khaleesi.

Yeah, I tested it and comment notifications unfortunately do not work with Disqus. However I tried the plugin Disqus Notify Post/Page Author that did the trick. Maybe you can look into integrating this into your plugin in the future. Anyway, we then decided not to go with Disqus anyway because it is a giant pain in the ass administratively, so we’re back with your notifications for default WordPress comments ahah.

Anyway, love your plugin!

nevermind, saw another thread with a workaround!

Hope it becomes an integrated feature in the future!

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Thank you so much for taking the time to test this, Alin. Though it wasn’t a ‘screen options’ issue, you actually testing this and showing that it works lead me to figuring out the problem.

It seemed to be just a refreshing issue with Admin Columns. I had a custom configuration with admin columns and, as I said, whenever I would click ‘analytics’ it would just refuse to the column until the column simply disappeared from the dropfown menu as a choice (very strange). I just set the columns back to default and viola, suddenly analytics appeared. Not really sure what the issue actually was, but I hope someone can find this inquiry if they have the same issue in the future.

Thanks again!

Ahh, I figured it out.

To respond to you, it seems that the column was an addition of the Google Analytics Dashboard for WP plugin. As I said before, Admin Columns just refused to add this column for some reason to my custom post type (thought it was easily customizable in ‘posts’ and ‘pages’). What I did was just reset my configuration for the custom post columns and started at the beginning, and magically it worked! So it seems to be just like a refreshing issue or something.

Hope this is helpful for those who may have this inquiry in the future.

Thanks!

Just want to update that the issue has been resolved, and it seemed to be a problem with cache-ing/refreshing, and yes, something not having to do with the ‘Types’ plugin at all.

Thanks for your time!

Thanks Marcin!

When I follow the steps though, ‘analytics’ does not appear as a field, and I’m not sure how to write the code to make it a user created field. I know the code exists somewhere because it appears on ‘pages’ and ‘posts’ but I don’t know how to add it to my own type that I’ve created.

Here is the column I’m talking about.

This is pulled from the ‘posts’ tab. I cannot seem to add it >_<

Ah… I didn’t realize it wasn’t a default column. Because it showed as a ‘default column’ I assumed it was part of the base WordPress, but it appears to come directly from the Google Analytics Dashboard for WP plugin.

I’m sorry to bring you an issue that is kind of in the middle of two plugins, but I hope we can try to resolve it (as well as for others who have this problem in the future).

Does anyone know a plugin for this? Or is it an option available somewhere in the admin menu that I just can’t find?