Public display issue

Hi James,

Thank you very much for contacting us.

Would you please provide me with your WordPress and BuddyPress versions? Is this a regular WordPress site or a WordPress MultiSite deployment? Finally, how were you able to fix the problem in the first place?

Thanks again,
Tarek

Hello Tarek,

Thank you for getting back to me so quickly!

Buddypress 2.0.1 (not upgraded to 2.1.2 yet)
Wordpress 3.9.1 Multisite
Membership Site

Our intention was/is to only make this available on the primary site as we do not want any subsite blogs having access to changing anything and our members main profile will revert back to the main site.

I initially activated it on our primary site but the custom menu wouldn’t save into the BPCPM’s dashboard menu manager so I activated it on Network; (we have plugins that allow us to block access to plugins on our subsites) and that worked to show the menu items in the BPCPM’s dashboard menu.

So the first time I activated a menu on the dashboard it was visible to the entire site as if it was set to ‘Public’. I then completely deleted and rebuilt the menu and that worked until I started changing the names of the menu items wiothin [Appearance > Menu’s] – all of a sudden they reappeared as public even though I had never checked the boxes. I did try to check, save, uncheck, and save again to see if that would refresh the tables but no luck.

Right now I have it working ‘stable’ again with no intention of changing the titles to any of the menu items.

One thing I noticed is that if you change a menu item’s name back to a previous applied name for that item, it recalls the old (menu-item-slug) which automatically makes it public again, even if it had never been checked as public. Hmmmm (strange…)

One thing I have been wondering is: How/where can I go into the database and delete all of the memorized or orphaned slugs?

Well I hope this helps, I really love the plugin! It’s the bomb when it comes to not only adding menu items but the auto paging function is awesome as well. Which leads me to this last query. Can you make/force sub-menu items to open outside of the BP profile page? I noticed some links do it automatically (most likely because they have a specific url string defined. (Not Sure)

Again, I hope this is of some help to you…

https://seemespace.com is the site we have the plugin deployed on. If you wanted to go on and sign up for our free account and check the site out, please feel free. https://seemespace.com/registration/

Once you have an account setup I’ll bump you up to Super-Admin if you want to poke around a little deeper…

We are just in the process of adding content and testing. We currently have approximately 60 members on the site…

Looks like you joined the site. I sent you a message in your profile. If you can confirm identity here I will bump you to SuperAdmin…

Thanks!

Hi James,

I just created an account on your site and checked out the user profile area. I love the BuddyPress tab icons you guys have BTW ??

Thank you very much for your detailed explanation, I now understand the problem and was able to replicate it. This should be simple to fix and I’ll be privately sending you an update today.

Regarding your question about orphaned slugs: If you go to your WordPress database, there is a table called ‘wp_options’. Filer this table for all ‘option_name’ entries that contain the ‘SP_BPCPM’ string and you should find all the plugin’s settings. You can use the following SQL query:

SELECT * FROM ‘wp_options’ WHERE ‘option_name’ LIKE ‘%SP_BPCPM%’

Thanks again for all your feedback!

Yes I just saw you sent me a message, but I am not able to view or reply to that on your site for some reason. I tried using both Safari and Chrome on OS X with no luck (same with the friend request BTW). Anyways, I don’t think I’ll be needing admin access.

Thanks again,
Tarek

Awesome, thank you Tarek!

I sent you a message on your profile and I’m going to bump you to SuperAdmin so you can take a more serious look at the site.

Now I’m looking for a way to hide a couple of those new menu items even to registered users that are not members. We restrict most of our content based on user-roles. I had found code at one time that I thought would work but never had a need to implement it. Now I’m scouring the net to find it again. ??

The problem I need to solve now, either through (CSS and/or PHP) is to make it so only members with specific user-roles have access to those menu items. I have found a couple of plugins that might do the trick but once you look at my back-end you will see that at this point I’m trying to limit the amount of plugins I’m adding. I would rather hard code it or integrate it into an existing plugin like yours.

Thanks again for your help and if you have any ideas for this I would appreciate it!

Ha!, so at your level you can’t send private messages. That was my mistake ?? Something else I need to resolve!

They will work now…

Hi again James,

We now have the issue fixed and it seems to be running great on our test deployments. Would you please remove your plugin and re-download your Pro version from our website? Please let me know if everything is working well now.

Thank you Tarek for jumping on this so quickly!

I have one issue (not related to the function of your plugin) that I’m hoping you might have some insight on.

I need to hide the custom items added to the menu from a specific user-role. (which is currently hidden in all other areas)

Here’s what I tried but no luck.

in the SP_BPCPM_MenuComponent.php file I changed line 197 from
// Menus for logged in user
if (is_user_logged_in())

to
// Menus for logged in user
if (is_user_logged_in() && current_user_can(‘publish_posts’))

using capabilities which is more stable.

I might be missing where the actual call comes from so anything you can do would be appreciated!

Thanks…

Hi James,

SP_BPCPM_MenuComponent.php is not the right place to do that. All the top level tabs are created in a function called ‘loadCustomMenu()’ in the SP_BPCPM_Plugin.php file.

In this function, you’ll find a for-loop starting with ‘foreach ( $menu_items as $menu_item )’. Any item added to the ‘$top_level_menu_items[]’ array will eventually be displayed as a main tab. To hide any tab from a specific user role, simply prevent the $menu_item from being added to this array.

Hope this helps.

Thank you!

On line #163 I placed:
if (is_user_logged_in() && current_user_can(‘publish_posts’)) {

and closed it on line #177

This hides the menu for logged in users who have not upgraded to one of our memberships.

Perfect!

Thanks for all your help, you have been awesome!

MKO

Always my pleasure ??

Good luck!
Tarek