BuddyPress Links Request

There was also a massive delay between voting on the link and receiving the points for my link being voted

It’s only registering 1 vote per link, not points per vote (so 3 votes down on 3 different links got me -10 points, when it should have been -10 for each vote, so -30 in total)

Registered a deduction for a vote down

Multiple deductions now working, seems to all be working now.

Just the transfer widget issue now

Once I’m done configuring the mycred beta plugin on my test site and it all seems to be working,could I just copy the folder (following the installation instructions) from my test site and upload/replace the deactivated mycred plugin folder on my main site with it keeping the same settings? Would that work?

By default, the hook will not award points if you vote on your own link but besides that, each vote should give points as long as the voter is not the author.

Regarding transfers.

Does the [mycred_transfer] shortcode work in a post / page content? Both uses the same render engine so if the shortcode shows the widget should show too, unless some custom styling is hiding the content in the widget.

You must replicate the update process if you want to update manually.
So first you disable the myCRED plugin in your admin area.
Then upload the files to your plugin folder so they get replaced.
Rename myCRED in the admin area.

This is because when you enable the plugin, myCRED will update your settings to 1.4. If you just upload your files and replace your current version, old bugs that lurk in the settings might still be around.

Right, I’ve just tried the shortcode as a custom text widget and n a page and neither are showing up. I do have a piece of code in the site somewhere to allow me to use shortcodes in the Custom Text/HTML widget, would that be causing the problem? (sorry about the delayed response, just got in from work)

Hey.

Ok in that case, enable WP_DEBUG in your wp-config.php file and visit the page with the shortcode to see what error message you receive.

Also make sure you are using the latest beta (version 6).

How do I get access to the BETA forum? (I’ll check which version I’m using now)

Yup, version 6. Not sure how to ‘enable WP_DEBUG’

You open wp-config.php file and locate:

define( 'WP_DEBUG', false );

To enable change false into true and save. To disable just change it back from true to false.

Alternatively if you do not want to “see” the error messages, you can log them into a file. This is a good solution if you want to troubleshoot a live site but dont want users to see ugly error messages that might brake your layout.

In that case, you need to replace:

define( 'WP_DEBUG', false );

with:

define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false );
@ini_set( 'display_errors', 0 );

Once you save, WordPress will save all error messages in a file called debug.log which will be saved into your wp-content folder. Make sure you disable WP_DEBUG once you are done troubleshooting otherwise this file might become very big if get a lot of errors or warnings.

WOW, I had a whole load of text on my screen! What part am I looking for?

search for mycred in the text to see if there are any mycred related issues.
Do not post the errors here! You can always contact me via the myCRED.me website if you need to send large texts.