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Hi pipost,

How long has it been since you installed the plugin? From what I recall, it can often be tied to your WordPress installations clock in terms of how quickly the feeds pull in. Also, if none of the feeds that you’re entering have new posts within the past 3 months (which is the default), then nothing will be added. One thing you might try is to check the settings to see if you can change how far in the pst you want PF to pull items in your feed.

Hi pwcps116,
We’re going to be releasing version 3.5 tomorrow. When you log in tomorrow, try going to the Plugins page and updating your PressForward plugin. We have not been able to duplicate your issue, but it’s possible that this new version may address the problem. Let us know if you’re continuing to experience difficulties, and thanks for letting us know!

Very shortly we will be releasing version 3.5 which will help to clarify user permissions and roles using PressForward. Currently, by default, only users assigned the “administrator” role in PressForward are able to Add Feeds. For most users, they want Contributors to be able to view and nominate content, while administrators can add feeds and send nominations to draft.

By tomorrow morning, you should be able to update the plugin to version 3.5. When you do, as an administrator you can go into PressForward-> Preferences->User Control. On the User Control page, go to Feeder Menu and select “Contributor.” You will want to go back into the user profiles and set your students’ user roles to “Contributor.” Contributor roles will include all the privileges of Author plus those for the PressForward Contributor role. In other words, as “Contributor,” students should continue being able to do everything there were able to do as “Author” but also add and edit feeds.

Keep us posted!

Hi Jim,
We have not heard of Google alerts necessarily taking a longer time to load. One possible way to see what is causing the delay is to set up a log file. The instructions on how to do that can be found here: https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward/wiki/Debug.

Good luck, and keep us posted!

Hi, cbobcean. If you go into your WordPress site’s plugin panel, you should see that there is an update to version 3.4.4 available now. Try installing the newest version of the plugin. The nominations should not only be working, but they should also count beyond 1 if you are working on a site with more than one user making nominations. Thanks so much for your feedback and keep us posted.