Carlo Roosen

Hi Scott
You are right, the docs are not complete. When you press ‘save and sync’, this is what happens
1. all checked WP fields will be automatically added to CM
2. users are compared between CM and WP based on the email address. If the same email address exists in both lists, the fields in WP will overwrite the fields in CM
3. all WP users who are not in CM, not unsubscribed and not bouced are added to CM
I am not sure about semantics here, but you are right this button works in one direction only.

When a user is added or modified in WP, the email address is used to identify the user on CM and the user will be added/updated on CM as well.

Also there is the option ‘use webhooks’. Simply enable it. This will install a webhook on the CM website, and it means that as soon as a custom field changes on CM, it will be changed on WP too. So this is the other direction.

No need to make any changes in CM at all, it is all managed from the plugin through the CM API.

To complete the story. this plugin relies on the proper implementation of other WP plugins to call the ‘profile_update’ and ‘user_register’ action. If somehow this process fails, the CM list will not be updated. Therefore we have another plugin, Campaign Monitor Synchronization. It checks for changes every 15 minutes. The price you pay is that it also deletes users from CM that do not exist in WP.

This other plugin ONLY works in one direction. I call it “one-way synchronization” in the documentation there, because the CM list is always an exact copy of the WP user list. Lets talk about semantics over a glass of beer :).

I hope this clarifies things. I will update the docs later.

Good luck, carlo

Ah, actually this should be possible already, with some work on your side. Our plugin does not interfere with the subscription process itself, so you will need to add your own custom field (there are other plugins that can do that, and it is easy in code too).

After that you can select the field in the plugin options. In CM you can then filter the users that meet some criteria.

Also checkout our other plugin (CM synchronization). We added the functionality you asked for there. (In fact a customer payed us for that, and we negotiated that this modification would be available for everybody)

Hi Remco,

I should study your individual case in more detail to solve the problem for you. However, I cannot give this support for free, it is too much a specific problem. Please contact me at mail at carloroosen dot nl.

Hi Remco,
The problem is clear. Curl is the service that connects your website to Campaign Monitor. The Campaign Monitor Server is known to be not too fast. So what happens is that it takes more than 10 seconds to update the changes, while there is a time limit on this operation, set by the server on which your website is hosted. Ask your hosting provider to increase the time out value, or your web developer to change it in PHP, if possible.
Good luck, Carlo

Hi Jo?l,

I did send any email to you. In fact I don’t even have your email address. The email you are referring to is from the website www.remarpro.com. Most likely you did check a checkbox once, but I am not sure and it is beyond my control.

I am happy you like this plugin!

Thanks!

Hi Adam,

Unfortunately your question is beyond the scope of the normal (free) support for this plugin. Of course you can modify the plugin yourself, it is free software (as in free beer and in free speach). Our plugin is relatively simple, but you will probably need to dive into WordPress/BuddyPress documentation to find what you need.

If you wish, we can extend this plugin for you. I have sent you more details in the email.

Regards, Carlo

Hi Remco, did you make any progress?

If you cannot find it, send me an email and I’ll have a look at your website.

Issue appears to be resolved.

I found a solution for your side-question also. There is a great plugin “user-switching”. After you install it, you will find in the front-end just below the log-out link a new link “switch off”. You will see the website as an anonymus visitor then. At the bottom of each page there will be a link “switch back to admin”.

Hi Ritsk,

– Existing images can not be edited, you will have to upload a new one. This is because DirectEdit uses two images, an unscaled (original) image, and a scaled image that is used on the page. When you later decide to change the scaling/cropping of the image, the original image will be used to create a new copy.
– the missing image in the console is not crucial, but thanks for letting me know
– about disabling buttons in the text-editor toolbar, documentation is on the website https://directedit.co/documentation. Please read that first, if you have further questions I can answer specific questions

Carlo

hm maybe they are hidden? On the top right in the backend there is a tab “screen options”.

Here you see it in the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEccSe–IWc#t=79
at 1:19

He Jeremy,

Did that javascript work for you?

Sure!

Go to the backend of that page and you will find “Hooks on standard WP functions” with select boxes for title, content and excerpt. Choose “disable” for all three and this page will not be editable.

If most pages should be disabled, you can also take the reverse approach. In the plugin options, disable editing for these 3 items, then go to the pages that you DO want to be editable. Set the selectboxes to “enable”.

By default the selectboxes have the value “use default settings”, which means they follow the global settings.

You can define your settings individually for title, content and excerpt.

Good luck, Carlo

He Damiaan,

And thank YOU for the idea :).

Carlo

Hi Jeremy,

Actually that is a good idea. But I don’t plan to add it to DirectEdit, because I want to keep it simple. Instead, just insert this javascript on your page and it should work. Replace ‘#my-div’ with your own selector.

jQuery(function () {
    if (jQuery.directEdit) {
        jQuery('#my-div').remove();
    }
}

If you include this script in direct-edit-custom.js it wil only be loaded for admin users.

No, there is no way to switch between edit and view mode. In edit mode links can still be tested using CTRL click, the link opens in a new tab for most browsers.