Posts Tagged ‘wordpress plugin’

Lock s2Member roles during plugin update

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

Do not reset s2Member WordPress Plugin Roles

s2Member Roles

Data: You use s2Member WordPress plugin from PrimoThemes successfully.
For those who don’t know, this plugin supports powerful membership capabilities, protect members only content, integrates with PayPal, supports recurring billing, custom pages for registration, etc. It is a right tool if you wish to sell some of your blog content to your subscribers or just restrict access to some posts, pages or downloads.
Finally, you know s2Member and WordPress good enough to make your own changes to its user permissions systems. You edited one of S2member created user roles: “s2Member Level 1”, “s2Member Level 2”, “s2Member Level 3” or “s2Member Level 4” and you added some new capabilities to it. You can use User Role Editor WordPress plugin, which helps you make such changes very easy.
Problem: You lose all your custom changes to the s2Member user roles after every s2Member plugin update. What’s going wrong? What to do? Who can help?
Decision: Read this post to know how to leave your customized s2Member user roles unchanged.

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User Role Editor WordPress plugin 3.2 is published

Monday, July 25th, 2011

User Role Editor 3.2

User Role Editor 3.2

New feature is added to version 3.2: if you run multi-site WordPress network, User Role Editor will automatically duplicate all roles from the main blog (blog with mininal ID) to every new created blog.
Some fixes, refactoring and logic change were applied to code to enhance its productivity. There were some complaints for PHP timeout error after trying to open plugin Settings page.
Thanks to Grant Norwood for code fix to hide PHP warnings he met during plugin usage.

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User Role Editor WordPress plugin 3.2 Beta

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

User Role Editor WordPress plugin 3.2beta

User Role Editor 3.2b

Version 3.2 of “User Role Editor” WordPress plugin is near to its release. I invite you to participate in testing cycle. If you have testing WordPress installation, please help to test this version in order to exclude bugs before send it to WordPress repository. I tested it at my developing environment, for single site and multi-site WordPress installations. Be sure however, that you have fresh backup copy of your WordPress database before setup this early version on the production site.
What’s new in version 3.2?
– According to suggestions of multi-site WordPress networks owners “User Role Editor” will automatically duplicate roles from the main blog to every new created blog. Thus, there is not necessary to copy every custom added, modified role from the main blog to the new created one manually.

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User Role Editor 3.1 is published

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

User Role Editor

User Role Editor

Version 3.1 of User Role Editor WordPress plugin is published. New features are:
– add new capability box;
– delete unused capability (except core WordPress capabilities) box;
– assign capabilities direct to user additionally to the role assigned to him;
– PHP4 is not supported by this plugin anymore. Update your site to PHP5 in order to use this plugin and near to release WordPress 3.2 🙂
– minor bugs and compatibility with other plugins fixes.
To get more information read these articles:
User Role Editor 3.1. Beta, User Role Editor WordPress Plugin

User Role Editor 3.1 Beta

Sunday, May 15th, 2011

User Role Editor

User Role Editor


User Role Editor WordPress plugin version 3.1 is ready for beta testing. You are welcome! What new things are added to plugin functionality:
– add new capability box;
– delete unused capability (except core WordPress capabilities) box;
– assign capabilities direct to user additionally to the role assigned to him;
– minor bugs and compatibility with other plugins fixes.
I plan to publish it at wordpress.org plugins repository in a week or two period of beta testing.

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Plugins Language Switcher version 1.2

Monday, December 27th, 2010

Plugins Admin Interface Language Switcher

plugin update

27th December 2010, Plugins Language Switcher version 1.2 is published and available for downloads. The main change is that plugin is multi-user now. Every user with administrator privileges can select its own language to work with plugins.
Uninstall function is added. Plugin deletes its data from the WordPress database automatically when you delete it via WordPress ‘Delete’ link in the ‘Plugins’ submenu.
Plugin is tested with WordPress versions 3.0.3 and 3.1.
Check this post to read more about this plugin or get the download link.

User Switching WordPress plugin review

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

User Switching

User Switching

When you experiment with your WordPress blog user rights (editing it directly or with use of User Role Editor plugin) you need to thoroughly test your modifications.
In case you create a new roles or edit existing WordPress core roles, you need to make tests with double zeal. What does it mean? It means that you should to log off as blog administrator, login as other user assigned another role and check what such user really can do. If you see that some staff needs to be corrected, you should log off and login as WordPress administrator again. You have to repeat those same simple steps again, again and again. Every login operation needs user name and password manual input. We wasted a lot of time for such operations.
Have you the same feelings? If such, you are in the right place. There is a User Switching WordPress plugin which is made by its author John Blackbourn to save a lot of time for us. After a week of use I’m sure that “User Switching” plugin is a valuable addition to your test WordPress installation where you play with changed WordPress user roles and capabilities sets.

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