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I hope someone will answer you typeleven because I too am looking for that exact same function. In fact mine is very simple – hide the private pages from the sidebar -until- a prompted valid password is given. I’ve been all over the place, Googling, searching and an answer isn’t obvious.

Won’t someone please try to give us a hand? Thank you all.

I keep checking back but there’s not much coming back at me to help resolve this. I know what you’re all thinking – scrap IE and just FF. I’d have to convince too many people in our group to do that just for the sake of a few crumby pictures every now and again. Not very appealing and not worth it, I say.

So, I’d seriously like to get to the bottom of this one. Oh, here’s another thing I tried: IE7 on my other desktop and IE7 on my laptop. Both show the same exact problem!

OH! WAIT!

I see it now! Yes, the directory/folder is viewable – I just had to dig around for it in the Admin panel, under Manage > Downloads. So, I now have to figure out how to assign it to the Members area.

The march presses on…

@clayton:

OK, I completely understand what you’ve said. It should only be that simple. Here’s the deal – I do not know where in the file system, that uploaded file is located. Therefore I cannot specify a directory/folder to point the link to. Again, the webhoster knows his file structure (in Linux) but I don’t.

And wow! Look at all those “1 post” items! Never knew that sort/filter existed. Glad you folks found it for me.

What I’ll do then is see if I can contact him for a little assistance. Then, go back and see how to add an HTML hyperlink to that file, within the body of the sub-page called “Members”. That hopefully should do it. And I won’t forget to come back to post results, good or bad.

Thanks all.

@clayton – thanks for your input.

Well, I didn’t know what to expect from WP. WP is being implemented because our webhost (donated resource) wants it. So, as the implementer, I’m asked to provide solutions. Your idea sounds like what I need but how do I implement it? There’s no doc specifying what procedure as simply and eloquently as you just did! I’ve uploaded one .doc file to test this, it’s there – I can see it plainly in the Admin panel, but as a user, it’s non-existent. There’s no “Download” button – I guess you have to supply it. How? Who knows!

So, for me, the mystery continues.

Well, there are people here! Great!

I had asked about setting up a file upload/download area for our members. I absolutely DID search for this but the question is so general, I’m not surprised that an answer wasn’t forthcoming. I know “bumping” is severely frowned upon in most forums I’m a member of so that response isn’t surprising.

One of things about WordPress I’m finding out is: you have to know something about what it is you’re asking about before you ask about it! For me, it’s not very easy. I understand the basics of it, but it appears if you’re going to go any deeper than “button pushing”, you hafta get into “geek mode”. Not a bad thing, mind you – but it’s a surprise to learn that you have to know the details of PHP and CSS in order to customize. Again, I shouldn’t have been surprised by this.

OK, then I’ll just give it another day to “brew”…

Thanks you all..

H

My thanks to you both. Off to read some more…

H

Here’s what I’ve tried since my first post:

Run MS’s User Agent String Util – no help.
Clear out all entries in IE7’s cache – no help.
Clear out caches again and restarted IE7 – no help.
Clear out caches a third time and rebooted – no help.

Wish I knew why this is broken. Can anyone give me a clue?