pdoc

Hi,
I am commenting here because I found no way to open a new thread.
In my site, I have the main menu with several entries, some of which have dropdown subentries.
ONLY IN A SPECIFIC PAGE, the menu subentries do not drop down at all… other pages do not give any problem.
Also, it does happen on that page when visiting it, I mean that if I visit when logged in as admin from my dashboard, the problem does not occurr.
What can I possibly check? It happens only with one page, and I edited it and it looks just fine….
thanks a lot!
BR
Cristiano.

Hi,
I found this thread while looking for a solution to my WordPress 4.9 upgrade problem.
It is not exactly the same problem described here, but I guess it’s a good place to ask for advice.
I have updated a website from WP 4.8.3 to 4.9 from the admin dashboard and it worked perfectly.
A second site (on the same host) is at level WP 4.7.7, and in this case, if I try the upgrade to 4.9 from the admin dashboard, it hangs in the “unpacking” step.
Do you have any advice?
Manual update is not my best option because it is error-prone and time-consuming (and I need to upgrade few more sites afterwards).
thanks a lot!
Cristiano.

Hi,
Thanks for your replies @jonryan and @adamkheckle.
In principle I would avoid extra plugins, since at the moment only one person is supposed to log in and publish jobs.
But I understand the idea of relying on specific plugins when multiple users management is needed.
Your plugin is anyway working fine.
Best regards.

“Editor” role actually seems to work.
Thanks a lot.

Hello @matthiaswagner,
I am possibly not experienced enough, and though I understand the meaning of the solution provided in the stackexchange q&a, I may need some more hint:
The advice is to add the following js code:

$( document ).ready( function() {
    $( document ).on( 'wp-custom-header-video-loaded', function() {
        $("#wp-custom-header-video").attr('autoplay',false);
    });
});

Where to add it? In stackexchange it is mentioned that it is not by editing core files, so I am not sure.
Even more complex:
I need to apply that solution to a site (twenty seventeen theme) that is actually a subsite of a multisite wordpress network, so I am wondering if this solution applies at all to my case.
Any hint?
Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
BR
Cristiano

I see.
So the plugin sets the default for all pages(posts), and then individually I can override that default inside the page(post) editor.
That makes sense.
Thanks a lot!

Hello Thomas,
Finally I think I could solve it.
It has to do do with a combination of WPML plugin, permalinks, and how this affected my LifterLMS installation.

I want to thank you for your willingness to help, besides not being necessarily a LifterLMS problem. I appreciate that you could find the time to give advices in a timely manner.

So now I’m updating this to leave a record of what I did, because I understand that WPML is a popular multilingual plugin, and my issue may be experimented by others:

SYMPTOM:
LinfterLMS and courses correctly functioning in a single language site.
Then WPML plugin is installed to configure additional languages.
Courses (they must be a special kind of post, I guess) can then be translated in other languages -just like regular post do.
At this point, the course catalog shows a list of courses that have been translated for any given language, but if you click on a specific element, the course description is not shown, a 404 page is presented instead.
The only course catalog that allows to open individual courses details is the English one, even if the original language of the site (so the language in which all courses had originally been created) is another one.

SOLUTION:
I did a combination of the following:
– Install the additional “WPML sticky ilnks” plugin
– In the admin panel go to In admin panel: Settigs->Permalinks, then “Common Settings” and select the “Plain” radio button.
– flush the permalinks by clicking save

This seems to have returned the situation to normality.

Hi Thomas,

My issue is not solved, unfortunately.
The reason why you saw everything working, is possibly that your browser has English as the default language (you would see the UK flag in the menu).
In fact the issue is that the catalog works only in English ??
If you try to switch to Spanish,for example and go to “Catalogo cursos”, and then click on any course, you will get the “Page not found” (“Vaya! Esta página no se encuentra!”)
It is interesting, though, your comments about the permalinks, but I am not sure I understand the technical meaning of your advice, could you please give some more detail?

Thanks a lot!

Great!
Thanks a lot!

Hi,
Thanks for your answer.
The article you pointed me to was exactly the information I needed to check.
“LifterLMS doesn’t send any mail, WordPress does.”
Just to reassure, I wasn’t pointing any finger at your plugin, and of course not at you ??
I am actually having a problem with this password reset mechanism, and I needed to confirm that it’s something inherent to wordpress core features and my hosting server.
I understand that LIfterLMS relies on wordpress, which in turn relies on the hosting server.
So I can eliminate possible causes of my problem and keep focusing on my server side.
BR
Cristiano.

Hi,
Thanks a lot for your prompt reply.
Actually, I am referring to a specific email, and I am not really sure it is sent by LifterLMS or by wordpress core functionalities.
This is really the reason for my inquiry here.
All what I can say is that, when users (students) try to reset their password, and an email is expected to be sent to them, they do not receive anything.
It happens only with users with an email account in microsoft’s domains (live, hotmail).
My server logs shows something like:

ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:256 CV=yes: SMTP error from remote mail server after pipelined MAIL FROM:<[email protected]> SIZE=4234: 550 SC-001 (BAY004-MC1F7) Unfortunately, messages from <myipaddress> weren't sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their network is on our block list. You can also refer your provider to https://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors.

Which means that my site sends the “password-reset” email, but it is blocked by microsoft, and part of the log entry is that the “span score” is 1.5 (spam score, not spam index, sorry for the mistake in my initial post).

I have contacted my service provider already, and the fix they provided so far didn’t have any effect.

Basically I am investigating this problem in three directions:
1. My hosting server – this is the most likely cause, but they say they already fixed it on their side
2. wordpress core functionality
3. LifterLMS

So I have no reason to believe this plugin has some responsibility, I am just inquiring to understand if it may be the case.

BR
Cristiano.

Hello @thomasplevy,
Thanks a lot for your reply.
You gave me a track to follow and study on.
In case I encounter any difficulty to code my filter, I will come back with questions, if that’s ok for you.
BR
Cristiano.

Hello @thomasplevy,

Hi have the exact same need: I want to allow somebody to edit courses content, but not to touch anything else in the site.

I had found an article at
blog.lifterlms.com/permission-management-in-lifterlms-1-4-5/
that gives an overview, and suggests the same link you mentioned:
https://lifterlms.readme.io/docs/filters-admin-menu-and-screen-permissions

But that links just yields the message “We moved to lifterlms.com/docs”.
I tried to navigate lifterlms.com/doc in search for information, but found none.

Is there any other resource I can look at, to define proper user roles?

I believe it’s a natural requirement, to allow a user to create courses content and not be the administrator of the site.

Thanks a lot!
BR
Cristiano

Hi,
I have the same issue, but it’s not a 404 error I receive.
What I did is the following:

1. install lifterLMS plugin
2. skip initial configuration step where I am asked to create pages
3. start creating lessons and courses
4. Publish courses
5. Create a blank page from Pages->Create new (named that page “Online courses”
6. Then I went to LifterLMS->Settings->Courses and selected the dropdown “course catalog” (that had no value specified) to select the new “Online courses” page

I understand that LifterLMS would take control over that page, and populates it with the list of courses, but it is not… the page in the front-end shows up empty.

UPDATE Upgrading to latest LifterLMS version solved the problem.

Am I missing anything?
Thanks a lot
Cristiano.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by pdoc.

OK. Thanks.