wbenterprises

Thank you for considering me to test that plugin, but I cannot download it from this link for a couple of reasons. I don’t know that link or the source or even if I can trust the code or what kind of support will follow if I install that. Also because I’ve requested several features in the past but still don’t see them, so I’ve modified the shortcodes to do what I need them to do (unfortunately have to do this every time I update the plugin).

Along with providing the notifications as discussed in this thread, please consider adding my other requests:

– The ability for actual purchases (in currency) to affect ranks, perhaps even coupons.
– That ranks can have an ordinal/hierarchical numbering which allows logic/comparison operations (greater/less than/equal) so I don’t have to use multiple shortcode blocks for higher ranks.
– Shortcodes mycred_hide_if and mycred_show_if can test on rank level using said ordinals and also on if content was purchased or not (paid, not paid).
– A new request: CSS code in settings for customizing the notification pop-up.
– Troubleshooting information/documentation for resolving purchases (such as why a purchase would remain in pending status even after the gateway successfully processes payment).

If you would like me to share my rudimentary code edits, I am happy to, but naturally they’ll be band-aids since I’m not the developer. Are you the developer?

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by wbenterprises.

I don’t believe you’re understanding the problem. The link you provided is unrelated to my issue. I am NOT having issue with automatic payments (recurring). I’m having a problem with myCred automatically *applying* (paying out) the transaction after PayPal processes the payment and returns the user to my site.

Please provide me with some information to help troubleshoot the issue. What are the steps involved for the transaction to occur (on the backend)? What would cause the payout to not be automatically applies to the user’s account after PayPal returns them to my site? I do not see any errors, nor do I know if there are logs generated other than what is in the myCred currency log.

For example, is there an IPN URL I’m supposed to set up in PayPal? Is there a way to test cURL to see if it’s working with PayPal? etc. etc.

Thank you.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by wbenterprises.

@wfpeter

Hello,

The reason listed was “blocked for accessed to a banned URL.” At first, I thought how is this possible because that folder does not exist on my server. But, then as I investigated further, there was a bad rule created (by me).

There was a rule which blocked “/wp-json/*” access. Even though this folder does not exist on the server, I believe it is used for communication between WP and other applications. I have removed this rule and will see if the issue reoccurs. I hope this fixes it, and I hope this conversation helps anyone else in the future!

Which settings are you requesting? My Payment Gateway settings? Easy, it’s enabled and has my email address. What other settings should I screenshot?

As for a video, it’s also very simple. I make a payment (real or sandbox) and Paypal processes it. It returns me to my designated account page (I have it selected under myCred>buyCRED). However, the credit is never applies to the account but it appears under Pending Payments. I can then manually pay it out.

What am I missing here?

Hi there,

I don’t have it online for you to view yet, but I can provide a snippet of the output code to see if you can help. Also, how do I apply it only to a single gallery or post?

This is generated by the built-in WP Gutenberg Gallery block.

The gallery block formats like this:

<div id="content" class="site-content fullwidthcontained">
  <div id="container" class="site-container no-sidebar">
	<div id="primary" class="main content-area">
		<main id="main" class="site-main" role="main">
			<article id="post-###" class="zita-article post-### page type-page status-publish hentry">
				<div class="entry-header entry-page"></div>
				<div class="entry-content">
				<figure class="wp-block-gallery columns-4">  // Start of gallery block, probably?
					<ul class="blocks-gallery-grid">  // Gallery grid is based on an unordered list
						<li class="blocks-gallery-item">  // Each gallery item is preceeded with <li> tags
							<figure>
								<a href="link to image"><img></a>
								<figcaption>caption here</figcaption>
							</figure>
						</li>
						<li>...
						</li>
						<li>...
						</li>
						<li>...
						</li>
						<li>...
						</li>

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by wbenterprises.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by wbenterprises.

Hello?

Yes, I agree, that’s probably better! Although, it does take away the option for the user to check the box.

What’s more bothersome is that UM won’t just make it an option to turn on or off for the administrator. They claim it requires customization on the user’s end which is just a lie since I can change it by switching a boolean value in their own code.

Nevermind about this request. It turns out I’m running into the inconvenience of the 404 errors all over the place. I understand this change was done for security, but it breaks many convenient features for my visitors. I’ve had to set the “Disable pre-queries for restriction content logic” to enabled. There surely must be another way to make this work again. A 404 is NOT the correct response to content that is restricted and breaks from the standard HTTP rules.

I see the 404 error when a non-logged in user tries to access content rather than be redirected, and I see the error 404 when a logged-in user accesses my homepage (the root domain like https://www.sitename.com/) rather than directly going to /posts-feeds.

Terrible implementation, I have to say.

I not sure if this can be done with a snippet, so you’ll have to modify the codebase for UM, and this means it’ll be overwritten whenever you update UM. Use the Plugin Editor in WP for editing.

Edit this file:

\ultimate-member\includes\core\um-actions-login.php

Just after line 417, edit this line and change false to true:

UM()->fields()->checkbox( ‘rememberme’, __( ‘Keep me signed in’, ‘ultimate-member’ ), false ); ?>

Hope that helps, at least for now. This was tested on the free version only.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by wbenterprises.

I have the following three rules set up in Advanced Firewall Options under “Immediately block IPs that access these URLs”:

/*/shell20211028.php
/shell20211028.php
/wp-includes/shell20211028.php

But the Live Traffice captures this:

https://snipboard.io/ZVP2F7.jpg

(and there are several entries from several attempts from at least 3 different IPs)

Yes, it does seem like it is stopping and catching with a 403, but it’s WF catching it, not my htaccess. I do not block any URLs in my htaccess. However, I want my custom rule to catch it and block the IP permanently for attempting. When it’s a 403, it doesn’t seem to process the IP blocking and I don’t see a 503 for the same attempt.

That being said, there are plenty of other custom entries which ARE producing 503 and blocking the IP, so I wonder why some are, some are not producing the 503 instead since I have a custom rule.

I have been TRYING to work with my provider on this issue, but they are INSISTING it is not their server. They claim it is my credentials or the plug-in. However, my emails are sending about 90% of the time. Here is the error using SSL instead of TLS:

Mailer: Other SMTP
SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.
Debug Output:
Connection: opening to ssl://smtp.hostinger.com:465, timeout=300, options=array()
Connection: opened
SERVER -> CLIENT: 220 ESMTP smtp.hostinger.com
CLIENT -> SERVER: EHLO [redacted]
SERVER -> CLIENT: 250-smtp.hostinger.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 48811212
250-ETRN
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250-DSN
250 CHUNKING
CLIENT -> SERVER: AUTH LOGIN
SERVER -> CLIENT: 454 4.7.0 Temporary authentication failure: Connection lost to authentication server
SMTP ERROR: AUTH command failed: 454 4.7.0 Temporary authentication failure: Connection lost to authentication server
SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.
CLIENT -> SERVER: QUIT
SERVER -> CLIENT: 221 2.0.0 Bye
Connection: closed
SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.

Could you please shed more light on this issue and what the error means?

Recent logs:

Event #4929	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	19-August-2022 at 1:21 pm
Event #4928	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	19-August-2022 at 1:21 pm
Event #4927	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	19-August-2022 at 1:21 pm
Event #4926	Debug	An email request was sent.	WP Core	19-August-2022 at 10:22 am
Event #4925	Debug	An email request was sent.	WP Core	19-August-2022 at 10:17 am
Event #4924	Debug	An email request was sent.	WP Core	19-August-2022 at 10:16 am
Event #4923	Debug	An email request was sent.	WP Core	19-August-2022 at 10:16 am
Event #4922	Debug	An email request was sent.	myCred	19-August-2022 at 10:12 am
Event #4921	Debug	An email request was sent.	myCred	19-August-2022 at 10:04 am
Event #4920	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	19-August-2022 at 9:14 am
Event #4919	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	19-August-2022 at 9:14 am
Event #4918	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	19-August-2022 at 9:14 am
Event #4917	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	19-August-2022 at 5:40 am
Event #4916	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	19-August-2022 at 5:39 am
Event #4915	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	19-August-2022 at 5:39 am
Event #4914	Debug	Mailer: Other SMTP SMTP Error: Could not authenticate. Debug Output: Connection: opening to ssl:/...	myCred	18-August-2022 at 9:43 pm
Event #4913	Error	Mailer: Other SMTP SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.	myCred	18-August-2022 at 9:43 pm
Event #4912	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	18-August-2022 at 9:41 pm
Event #4911	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	18-August-2022 at 9:40 pm
Event #4910	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	18-August-2022 at 9:40 pm
Event #4909	Debug	Mailer: Other SMTP SMTP Error: Could not authenticate. Debug Output: Connection: opening to ssl:/...	myCred	18-August-2022 at 5:16 am
Event #4908	Error	Mailer: Other SMTP SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.	myCred	18-August-2022 at 5:16 am
Event #4907	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	18-August-2022 at 4:59 am
Event #4906	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	18-August-2022 at 4:59 am
Event #4905	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	18-August-2022 at 4:59 am
Event #4904	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	18-August-2022 at 4:32 am
Event #4903	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	18-August-2022 at 4:32 am
Event #4902	Debug	An email request was sent.	Ultimate Member	18-August-2022 at 4:32 am
Event #4901	Debug	An email request was sent.	myCred	17-August-2022 at 1:05 pm
Event #4900	Debug	An email request was sent.	myCred	17-August-2022 at 10:59 am

Just the recent (filtered) error logs:

Event #4913	Error	Mailer: Other SMTP SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.	myCred	18-August-2022 at 9:43 pm
Event #4908	Error	Mailer: Other SMTP SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.	myCred	18-August-2022 at 5:16 am
Event #4856	Error	Mailer: Other SMTP SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.	Ultimate Member	13-August-2022 at 11:12 pm
Event #4847	Error	Mailer: Other SMTP SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.	WP Mail SMTP	13-August-2022 at 12:24 pm
Event #4841	Error	Mailer: Other SMTP SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.	Ultimate Member	12-August-2022 at 3:11 pm
Event #4835	Error	Mailer: Other SMTP SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.	Ultimate Member	12-August-2022 at 5:09 am
Event #4832	Error	Mailer: Other SMTP SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.	Ultimate Member	11-August-2022 at 10:13 pm
Event #4828	Error	Mailer: Other SMTP SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.	myCred	11-August-2022 at 7:04 pm
Event #4824	Error	Mailer: Other SMTP SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.	myCred	11-August-2022 at 5:54 pm
Event #4798	Error	Mailer: Other SMTP SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.	myCred	10-August-2022 at 1:04 am

• This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by wbenterprises.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by wbenterprises.

I’m not sure exactly what you mean by “email plus plugin” here. Do you mean a premium add-on? I have enabled the “Email Notifications” Add-on within the myCred plug-in settings.

Are you stating that you fixed the email notification trigger when a rank is manually changed by an administrator? If so, which version of myCred was this fixed in? I only see a change for “Duplicate email notifications” in version 2.4.4.

Is myCred supposed to trigger the email event when a rank is manually changed? If so, I cannot get it to do so. All other email events I have enabled are working as intended.

The issue I have is that I only want security-related events, but I consider a 404 one of these issues. A 404 could mean a link is broken, but more often than not, it means someone is probing for a vulnerability or backdoor. The built-in rules apparently don’t cover everything as I’ve collected hundreds of probing events by filtering on 404 errors. My Advanced Firewall Options URL block list has 520 entries as of right now, so I feel that 404 errors should be included in security related logs.