dingxiaohan

Thank you. Sorry to have been so slow, but I am a very old man with very poor eyesight!

I can see in the plug-in’s backups that the exports that I thought weren’t happening appear to be there. Previously exports have gone to the OS Downloads folder, from where I transferred them to an external drive by way of real backup. Can you tell me how to get the files from your backup folder into mine?

For example, I’ve never used FTP…

Sorry, I’m completely out of my depth. I’m just a viola player.

I’m afraid I haven’t the faintest idea where to start looking for that file.

I don’t suppose this is relevant, but the only change I made to the site since the last successful backup was to deactivate the Simple WP Membership plugin.

No.

Sorry, the above was premature. I can see there’s been some input by someone else that has mightily confused things. Please ignore.

Yes. I’ve had a developer working on it, in exquisite silence, for about a month now, which is why I came back to see if I could tackle it myself. My next step is fairly obvious. Thanks for your help.

By the way, have you noticed how the Zeno’s Arrow principle applies to every damn project in life? Looking back, I’m amazed at how much I created in a month, starting with zero knowledge of WP. Only to come to a standstill at the very last step.

Exactly. Unfortunately editing code is above my pay grade, and after months of asking around among IT professional friends I’ve yet to find anyone who claims to know how to do it. I’m hoping that there will be some instruction that says, in effect: ‘Find this string of words and replace it with this one.’ If so, and if somebody could give me the wording of the instruction code, into which I can insert my variables, I would be halfway there. The other half would come if someone could tell me exactly what to do with it then.

I can be assumed to be capable of not editing the parent theme and basics like that.

OK, thank you. Sorry if I got that wrong, but I had some difficulty making dropdowns work, so jumped to the conclusion that Ephemeris was an exception to the rule.

So far in my research into membership plugins I haven’t seen any indication of an ability to fine-tune the mechanism for communication with an applicant. We need to be able to send very specific directions, which can be seen at https://box5329.temp.domains/~mertonmu/listraban/?page_id=195
If anyone happens to know of a membership plugin that has this degree of customisation I would be very grateful to know.

Thank you. I’ll look into the membership plugins.
I have meanwhile discovered https://paulund.co.uk/change-the-password-protected-text-in-wordpress, which gives a method of amending the displayed text by adding a filter. I’ve been trying to find someone among us who isn’t out of his or her depth in coding of this kind.

Thank you. Stupid of me. Solved.

Or alternatively, is there a way of overriding Ephemeris’s limitation by means of plugin?