SunnyOz

Sorry, but I think that is totally unacceptable. I understand keeping advanced plugin options for the pro version. But having the ability to actually use the plugin by all users is a very basic WordPress functionality and is what anyone looking to use your plugin would expect.

It looks like I will have to go back searching for another plugin to use. Which is unfortunate, since I have already spent several days setting this up for my client. Not to mention that it looks bad for me, to have said I have a solution, when in fact I did not!

I just had a look on your site, and couldn’t find anywhere that says this free version is only to be used by the Administrator role. In addition, I couldn’t find anywhere that says it IS available to other WP user roles if you upgrade to pro.

Even if you can prove that upgrading to “Pro” will give me this very basic functionality, I can’t see anywhere that tells me if the purchase is a one-time charge, or a monthly or yearly one. (My client would be OK with a one-off payment to upgrade but not an ongoing fee.)

• This reply was modified 10 months, 2 weeks ago by SunnyOz. Reason: Showing that the plugin doesn't state it is limited to only be used by the Admin role

FYI: Just for documentation sake (in case someone else comes here because they have the same problem):

Once I unticked the “Log all visits” setting, the plugin automatically dropped the Database “iqblock_debug_logging” table for me. (IE: Once I logged back in to phpMyAdmin, that table was no longer there, and I had regained all the space back, and my DB size was now only 9MB).

Thanks for your quick reply!

Are you saying there is no issue with truncating the iqblock_debug_logging table without any consequences to the website or the IQ Block Country plugin?

Oh, wow… I just found the debug option on the home page of the IQ Block settings area. I have unticked it, so hopefully that does stop the on-going logging issue!

Sorry.. I think I have it now, but would like to know why it works.

I got help from Stack Overflow (@Thefourthbird), with this suggestion:

Source URL: ^\/([^\s\/]+\.pdf)
Target URL: https://www.haregroup.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/$1

That seems to do the redirect for only PDFs in the root directory, and not allow other directories to be examined.

I am not actually sure why this works, and why his example with the

/ An unescaped delimiter must be escaped with a backslash (\)

works in your plugins regex (when my other examples with ‘unescaped delimiters’ have worked fine.

But I thought all this explanation might help your other users.

Thanks,
SunnyOz

OK. Thanks for the help.

I thought I had figured out a way works for me.

Source URL: ^/(.*).pdf
Target URL: https://www.haregroup.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/$1.pdf

It does work correctly as I wanted it to for this url: https://www.haregroup.com.au/How_was_your_last_pay_review_19Jan10.pdf

But unfortunately it is also picking up this URL, and basically giving it an infinite redirection loop; https://www.haregroup.com.au/generator/assets/How_was_your_last_pay_review_19Jan10.pdf

I had thought that putting the ^ before the / would limit it to just the root directory, and not pickup all subsequent directories also. I guess the (.*) is where it is allowing anything in the url that appears before the .pdf (including directories).

Can you give me an example of how to stop it looking beyond the root directory for a PDF?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by SunnyOz.

Thanks @johnny5 – that did the trick. It now redirects and displays the correct PDF.

Can I also ask if there is a way to redirect only files that are PDFs?

Basically, now I want to try redirecting just PDFs that are found under the root directory to the uploads directly. But I need to make sure that I don’t end up sending all pages at the root level to the uploads directory.

So I want it to do something like this:

From https://www.haregroup.com.au/*.pdf
To https://www.haregroup.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/*.pdf

I know that is the incorrect format, but I am trying to indicate that I want the redirect to pickup all files that end with .pdf, and redirect them to the same file name at the new location?

I see that the instructions say regex redirects might not work with PDF files, but since the current redirect is working, I would like to try this, if such a regex statement actually exists that would work.

Thanks again for any suggestions.

Cheers!
SunnyOz

Thanks for your help. Your suggestion worked. Once I turned off “AUTOPLAY” for both slides, they worked correctly again.

Also thanks for giving me the direct support contact info for future issues.

Cheers!
SunnyOz

FYI: I went back to look at my logs, and it appears that I updated iThemes from 8.01 to 8.02 on August 12th.

The next day, on August 13th, I created a new Admin, then deleted the original Admin (Attributing all posts to the new Admin.)

The original admin was the one in effect when I updated iThemes to 8.02 version. But later when I tried to access iThemes under the new Admin, that is when I get the error. (Which means that the ‘fix’ didn’t work in my case.)

It is possible that the problem has to do with the fact that I changed the USER-ID for the new Admin user via phpMyAdmin. Maybe by changing the Database directly, iThemes doesn’t have a record of the change, and doesn’t recognize the new USER-ID as an admin user anymore?

(NOTE: It ‘worked the second time’, because I deleted the original install, and started fresh with a new install.. which would have been under the new Admin name and number, so it would naturally work properly at that point, without needing to invoke the ‘fix’ code.)

Since I didn’t hear back from you with a suggestion of how to fix this, I decided to delete the plugin and reinstall it all over again.

It was a pain to have to fix all the settings again, but thankfully I had kept documentation of the settings I used last time for this client.

It all appears to be working properly now.

I’ve added my solution here, just in case there are other users that have the same issue, and so they can at least have one option to use that works.

Thanks,
SunnyOz

I just remembered that I have changed the administrator user name and number since I installed the iThemes Security plugin.

Since the original administrator is no longer user id: 1, does that cause a problem with iThemes Security, so it thinks the the new administrator’s name (and new ID) isn’t allowed to access the settings, log, etc?

I saw another support ticket that seems like a similar situation, and you said that “We’ve made a fix in the latest version of the plugin, 8.0.2, which will correct the issue going forward”. Since I am already using version 8.0.2, and I am still experiencing this problem, can you give me a suggest on how to fix this?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by SunnyOz.

Fantastic! That did the trick. All good now. Thanks for the prompt reply!

Sorry.. I submitted this question too soon.

I finally found how I could change the sizing/colour of the checkbox tickmark.

I’ll give the details below in case it helps others:

.nf-field-container .nf-field > .listcheckbox-wrap > .nf-field-element li input[type=checkbox]:checked + label:before{
	your css styles go here
}

I just realised that I could us the shortcode to pull in the ninja form like this:

<?php echo do_shortcode( '[ninja_form id=1]' ); ?>

Works great now.

Thanks for your quick reply.

I was afraid that was the problem.

Would you by chance know if there is anyway to communicate this issue with MailChimp if you have a free account? I couldn’t find any way to reach them.

Thanks again for your quick reply @joyously.

The only if statement I have in the latest example of the code I use – is for the retrieval of my widget, not for the retrieval of my blog post entries.

I am so confused now on what to do, especially since what I have displays properly.. I can’t tell when I have it coded wrong or right.

Is it possible for someone to give me example code of the suggested way to do my query, so I can learn the correct way to code it, instead of me continually bumbling my way through different erroneous trials?

Thanks,
SunnyOz