Privacy Settings error: This slug is in use. Slug need to be unique.

  • Resolved Ken OG.

    (@kenogojazz)


    6 years ago

    Hello! Can someone more experience with WPADverts advise on a solution for this little problem I am having? In the WPAdverts plugin, under Privacy Settings, Authors (sellers) cannot change (place a check mark) default Profile Visibility from “Allow other users to see your profile”.

    When I try with any of my test-users or even my admin account, it always fails with a red warning well at the top, that says “You have an error in your form”.

    It also has an error at the bottom of the form that says, “This slug is in use. Slug need to be unique.”

    I would understand the slug being unique if this were a similarly named page, but different – but it’s the users account. From everything I read, this slug should stay the same, but the Profile Visibility and Contact Form checks should act as a simple Enable or Disable, unless I understand this incorrectly.

    What I have done so far…

    AUTHORS PLUGIN SETUP
    Default author page status…set to PRIVATE
    Privacy Setting is CHECKED…Allow changing privacy on registration.

    ON MY UBUNTU 18 SERVER:
    Double-checked the appropriate website doc root folders are set to CHOWN -R www-data:www-data

    Double-checked appropriate web doc root is CHMOD -R 0755

    I deleted my test author (seller) several times, including searching through the tables for all instances of my test author by deleting in the users AND author dashboards, or renaming with _old so I can re-register and get a clean user and new slug.

    PERSONAL EFFORT TO SOLVE IT MYSELF
    Read the Plugin Documentation at WPAdverts.
    Searched www.remarpro.com. Only found a slug article for someone changing webpages, but I know how to do that and I don’t think it applies.

    Thank you to any kind soul that can help me solve this, because this looks like an outstanding plugin, and I can’t wait to deploy it ??

    Thanks,
    Ken

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  • Plugin Author Greg Winiarski

    (@gwin)

    Hi,
    are you registering the authors using Authors registration shortcode?

    In the current version, there is a bug which disallows users registered using a different form to edit the profile, maybe it is affecting the privacy settings as well.

    You can email via the contact form here https://wpadverts.com/contact/ i will send you an updated file back.

    You can also check if you are still having the same issue if the user who is trying to edit privacy settings is registered using Author registration shortcode.

    Thread Starter Ken OG.

    (@kenogojazz)

    Okay, everything works as expected now!

    The Temp Fix was to create REGISTER page in WordPress, and apply the shortcode, [adverts_author_register]

    Permanent fix was the PHP file Greg sent me. After uploading that file to WPAdverts/includes, all new users/authors could then register via my preferred method – via Seller Dashboard page, which contains [adverts_author_manage]…AND save changes to their public profile.

    Although [adverts_author_manage] allows new users/authors to register, their profile saves would not actually save as stated in my original post. It all works now thank to this code.

    Thanks for solving this for me Greg! You are a true professional and I appreciate the hard work you do.

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