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Any update on this being a possibility now? ??

Thx,
Tim

Wondered the same thing myself. Looking forward to the major update. ??

You rock! Thanks again. ??

Thanks so much for the thoughtful reply! ?? I will go ahead and keep it the default format for the time being. ?? I have a little experience with filters, but this particular goal seems a bit out of my league.

@klevur I’m having the same issue with version 4.9.6.2. After updating the plugin, the wp-admin notice always comes back after I close it and reload the page.

Thanks for the tips Mike! I suppose doing it custom isn’t such a bad option. It’s a bit complicated so I might need to hire someone to do it. Unfortunately, none of the existing plugins have either the type of organization that I am hoping for, or the ability to be customized in the way that I need.

+1 for BuddyPress support ??

There is an existing plugin specifically for BuddyPress, but its extremely buggy and it causes all of my validation tests to fail. It think real humans are robots. :/

I answered my own question.

For anyone else who needs to regenerate their short URLs for all of their posts, there is an option to delete the files and data when you uninstall and then delete this plugin from wp-admin. Then, when you reinstall the plugin, all of your short URLs will be freshly reset with any new formatting rules that you apply. Obviously be careful with this on a live site if you already used a bunch of short URLs in previous links (in social media, etc).

I am also experiencing this issue. Like @investacube said, I also have removed the “/members/” base URL, so all of the profile pages “domain.com/username” are returning 404 errors.

I would love to be able to use this plugin… This is the only bug that is holding me back.

Try removing that line from wp-settings.php and placing it into wp-config.php instead. That is probably the issue. Maybe it worked before like my code did, but it no longer works now. The way I was doing it, and the way you are doing it are both wrong, but it managed to work okay before 4.5.

Good luck!

@vstamilan The cause of my problem was that I placed this code:

define('UPLOADS','files');

in the wrong part of wp-config.php – I place it after:

require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');

when it should have been at the top of the document with the other define statements. (Because I followed the old HontKiat tutorial that gives incorrect instructions)

If that isn’t what caused your problem, then I’m not sure what did create the issue on your unique site. Maybe someone else here can help you identify what went wrong.

I figured this out.

I am using the plugin “Admin Menu Editor”, and I moved the location of the polls link around.

The requested URL didn’t exist (the actual URL is admin.php, not edit.php):

This: (/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-polls/polls-options.php) is correct.

I haven’t experienced that issue with any other plugins that I have moved around with the Admin Menu Editor plugin. Maybe this could help someone else in the future.

Do these errors seem like something that moving to a hosting service with more current PHP and MySQL versions would resolve?

@otto42 – I owe you a beer my friend, thank you SO MUCH for noticing that tiny detail. You were 100% correct about my error. I moved the define uploads code up after the other defines, and it fixed the problem immediately!

Somehow, the old method was working for a long time. Unless I somehow moved the code at some point, but from what I can tell it has been that way for at least 6 months.

Hopefully that fixes the problem for other users.

Cheers,
Tim

@otto42 – Thanks for the suggestion Samuel! I’ll give that a try ASAP. ??

I found the original tutorial that I learned about this from: https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/wordpress-custom-upload-dir/ As you can see, they instructed to place the “Define” line after the require_once. For some strange reason, this was working for me (and others apparently) before. As soon as I confirm that your solution works, I will report back.

In the meantime, if anyone else has success (or not) with Samuel’s idea, let us know!