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Thanks very much, I will. I’ve downloaded it. I’ll have a look at how it works. I’m still puzzled how they managed to do this though. I need to know!
I’m going to log in as a new user and see what I can do myself and how they might have got in and round the settings.
SueNo, this site has been going since 2012. It was my first with Stiofan’s theme. I have had users register and post events and places from GT through to GD. No problems until now. I set user role to author as was always instructed in GT and GD set up. I never had a reason to change that.
Recently a new user made an unpleasant post which went to ‘news’ as that is where posts go. I didn’t know anyone other than myself could do that. It’s happened twice. I don’t know how this happened. I would like to stop it happening again.
I only want users to add listings. I don’t want them to be able to create and publish a post in the category news.
Thanks,
SueHi Alex,
a) I already had that set to ‘no’! That is why I am surprised they managed to create posts under ‘news’. Please read back again and maybe you can suggest something. I have sucuri on my site and the usual spam protection.b) I have reset my new users to author as they were. I have no contributors, only I create news posts as admin.
All the best,
SuePS I’ve checked UsersWP too and am on GD V1. I really can’t see these settings. I’ve had a further look in the docs generally but it’s not helped so far.
Thanks,
SueThanks.
a) I’ve taken a look but I can’t see these advanced options in my GD settings as depicted in this document. Compare attachments.
b) If I make users subscribers will they still be able to own their listings as I have always set them as authors because it was in the instructions to do so in the past?
Thanks Alex and Kor. I have now set new registration to subscriber. Can you tell me if these options, subscriber and contributor, are more recent and weren’t there years ago? I don’t recall the options but set them to author as recommended. (I had better check my other sites too.)
Yes, Kor, I was puzzled about their permission to post.
Alex – I cannot find ‘Roles to exclude from dashboard access’ in general WP settings. Where are the user roles?
Also does this mean all my registered users can see everything in the backend, (or just their own listings) and should I go through and change all to subscriber? This would be a huge task obviously.
Thanks,
SueYes, I did say it was sorted at the bottom of my message. You must have missed it. Thanks, Alex.
However I was puzzled that the GD Endpoint box was not actually visible as per my attached screenshot in the previous post. Take a look.
Once I could see the categories it’s easy to add them to the navigation menu, which I did. (Occasionally when you don’t do things often enough you forget simple procedures!)
SueThanks. I realised it was the screen options just before you replied. I had a mental block! It was a ‘doh!’ moment. 😉 No idea how I forgot that.
However, the Geodirectory endpoints box (edit menus) is not there although the WooCommerce one is. See attached.
I have it sorted now.
All the best,
SueThank you! 🙂
Thanks all is ok now.
You will see from my attached screenshot of the update notice after I reverted back to theme V1 that there is no way you can know it’s only for GD V2 from this update screen. The warning only appears after you’ve updated. I thought it was just a normal update and like to keep things up to date!
Yes, will do. Thanks very much.
(I thought at first you were talking about the plugin not the theme, then realised. I was making sure I didn’t upgrade GD to V2. Was there a notice about not upgrading the theme without GD V2? I didn’t see one at the time. The warning I mentioned at the top of the page I only saw after the update.)
I’ve just checked the WP-admin and it looks like I have updated the theme to V2 not realising it’s only for GD V2 not V1. I have the directory starter theme with the child activated. There is a warning there saying it’s for GD V2. I didn’t know that. I assume if I remove that and install the V1 theme (which I hope I can redownload) it will be ok again. 🤞
Thanks,
Suehttp://www.whatsoninsurrey.info
Thanks – I still can’t sort it! No idea what caused it either.PS I’VE ADDED A SCREEN SHOT OF A DETAIL PAGE.
Thanks.
