ubrayj02

You should be able to create a php function that uses the [groups_user_groups] shortcode to auto-populate a form field.

More on that shortcode here:
https://docs.itthinx.com/document/groups/shortcodes/groups_user_groups/

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by ubrayj02. Reason: Better answer

There are a bunch of shortcodes that can hide or show your content to users of different groups. You can also use these shortcodes in your page template files.

All of this is covered in this section of the plugin documentation:
https://docs.itthinx.com/document/groups/shortcodes/

An answer to your question is partially available in the plugin documentation here:
https://docs.itthinx.com/document/groups/memberships/

Scroll down to the section entitled “User Profiles”.

Users with the Administer Groups permission (the groups_admin_groups capability) and the edit_users capability can edit the group membership of their own account and of other accounts they are allowed to edit.

Regarding “ordering by [variable]” (in this case your variable is “company”), perhaps creating using the inheritance tree properties of Groups is the way to do this?

For example:
Group: User – Capabilites: Read posts, post comments
Child Group: Company A – Capabilities: “User” stuff PLUS see Company A stuff
Child Group: Company A Leader – Cap.: User+Company A PLUS group_admins_group and edit_users

Child Group: Company B – Capabilities: “User” stuff PLUS see Company B stuff
Child Group: Company B Leader – Cap.: User+Company B PLUS group_admins_group and edit_users

Child Group: Company C – Capabilities: “User” stuff PLUS see Company C stuff
Child Group: Company C Leader – Cap.: User+Company C PLUS group_admins_group and edit_users

I hope that makes sense. Each “Child Group” has the Capabilities of the “Parent Group” plus what you choose to add on.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by ubrayj02. Reason: Formatting to clear up text somewhat

Thanks for posting this fix. I hadn’t changed anything on my site in months, running WP 2.6, and this Internal Server Error popped up today. I did a bit of Googling and found this post.

I copied and pasted the code above into my .htaccess file and it got rid of the error.

Thanks!

This is “resolved” using this fix:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=2000

I had a similar problem with my install. WP eCommerce would mess up when it was trying to write to my MySQL database.

I went into phpMyAdmin, found the entry “wp_product_list” and deleted all of the messed up entries.

I went back into WP eCommerce and voila! Everything worked pretty well (until the next problem).

One thing that can really help is to provide your wordpress install with the full path to your “Uploads” folder. There is a post on the instinct forums about problems with uploading product images because of this.

I’ll echo the OP in this thread. I was pretty new to WordPress when I tried to get this plugin installed and working properly. Three months later, I have learned a lot, my online shop is still not working properly and I’ve seen this constant angry banter online about how crappy this plugin is.

WP eCommerce is: (1) FREE and (2) OPEN SOURCE.

It is obviously a work in progress, by developers who are taxed with their jobs that actually pay their bills. There is one guy, in Texas, who has become the source for all things having to do with the plugin.

Other than that, you’re on your own when you have a technical problem specific to your site. The plugin is not robust enough to deal with all the crazy configurations out there (yet). I guess it would have been nice to ave known that this was more like “beta” code, rather than a proper WP plugin.

I have a feeling that in a few months, the plugin will be better than before. I know I am going to get working trying to learn php and javascript in order to fix the problems with my WP eCommerce install. I’ll be sure to post my fixes online and share them with everyone using this plugin. It’s all we can collectively do to make things get better, que no?

richarduk – you are right. Unless you’ve got some real programming skills and have a ton of time to learn this plugin inside and out, it can be a real pain to get it working properly.

It is, however, pretty much free – which is a lot cheaper than all the shopping cart software that is licensed out there on the web. I’d rather throw a little cash to a great crew of open source developers than some crew that takes 2% off of every online purchase I secure.

Load up phpMyAdmin, and access the table wp_product_list

Make sure you have the filenames of the image files you want to associate with your products.

In wp_product_list, you’ll see a text entry box (“edit” the products you want to edit) that you can dump the file name into, then save your changes.

I’ve also found that images over 800px wide do not work with WP e Commerce. This could be some quirk in my installation, or it could be the result of some wierd aspect of the plugin.

The way this question is phrased makes it seem like “support” on this forum might not be enough to help.

aubrun08, you have a WordPress site installed already, right? It doesn’t take too much to install WP eCommerce – it is similar to other plugins. There are some bizarre behaviors it exhibits sometimes.

For instance, it sometimes cannot or will not access the “uploads” folder on your server. It also sometimes doesn’t write or read to your wordpress installation’s MySQL database properly.

The fix for this particular problem was implemented in version 3.6.8RC1 of the plugin.

Removing the “float:left” from the code above was also reported to fix the problem.

Thank you for posting this – I’ve been able to use this code to change the sidebar depending on which page a user visits. This is particularly useful because I have customized “Home” page, a blog, and an online shop – each with heir own needs for different sidebar content.

Is there an easy way to simply load a single sidebar file without having to include “if” statements?

I’m sorry for my newb-ness. I am unfortunately not very familiar with php.

cwoodside,

Thanks for creating that code!

I added a category-7.php style file to the directory /wp-content/themes/k2/ (since I use the K2 theme), and it appeared in the Template Editor right away.

This is a great starting off point to create a special calendar page using eventcalendar3.

I’ve found a few good examples of how nice eventcalendar3 pages can be.

This site uses the K2 theme:
https://dryden.eastmanhouse.org/

This site has its own customized theme:
https://streetsblog.com/category/events/