[Plugin: Page Security by Contexture] More than 1 group not working (1.5.4)

I’m looking more into this, but wasn’t able to reproduce it before the last update.

Keep in mind:
When something is protected, a user must meet ALL requirements to access. So if you have a group attached to a post, and another group attached to a category, that is two required groups. If a user is only in one of those groups, they can’t access the page.

I’ve got a list of suspects, but won’t be able to really dig in and test it until I have a good block of free time. I’ll keep you posted if/when I find anything.

You mean that if I write an article for more than one group, it’s not working? I’m sad to hear that.

I write articles for friends and articles for my family. But some articles should been read by all of them.
Maybe there is a other way to handle this?

It would be great if you could integrate that.

I am having the same problem with posts. Select more than one protected category and no one in those groups sees the post.

Will changing the custom field, ctx_ps_security make a difference?

wpgwren, the culprit appears to be the system responsible for merging requirements. Protected categories are supposed to have their requirements merged with the posts’ – but it appears that they are instead causing duplicate requirements, which makes the check impossible (because the check would require somebody to be a member of the group twice).

I am going to try to make some time to fix this bug this week, and maybe test it over the weekend – but it depends entirely on my shifting load of client work.

tirar, if you protect a post and add two groups – say “Friends” and “Family” – then users will need to be a member of either “Friends” OR “Family” (not both). The problem you experienced appears only when using protected categories (terms) – because if the post is protected too, then you are left with the impossible requirement that a user must be a member of their group twice (once for the post, and once for the category). This is clearly a bug, and I’m working on a fix.

and I’m working on a fix.

That’s really great news! Thank’s a lot.

FYI, I just uploaded 1.5.6 – which finally fixes this annoying bug.

Protected terms now work exactly as expected… if a term is protected, and that term is added to a post, the post inherits those protections as if protected directly.

Hi Matt,
I’m sorry, but it seems not to work. Maybe I completely misunderstand the functionality of your plugin.
I’ll be glad if you could give me a hand.

I do the following procedure:

– Create group “family”, and group “friends”
– create 2 users and assign one to “family” and one to “friends”
– create category “life”
– add group “family” and group “friends” to category “life”
– write article and aktivate category “life”

Now you can see “Groups with access”: friends, family

But both users don’t see the written article. If I remove group “family” from the category “life”, user “friend” is able to read the article (and vice versa).

It’s a bit confusing to me. Especially because both groups are shown in “groups with access” when writing articles.

Hey tirar,

Thanks for the report, I can confirm this too and I’m working on a fix.

I think I have this solved now. It will be fixed in 1.5.7 later today.