Major Design Flaw/Bug

  • klmnt

    (@klmnt)


    12 years ago

    I appreciate the Devs effort to create a “free” Membership plugin. However.., plugin seems basic and perhaps may work for some but… as mentioned by other users there’s a Major Flaw in the basic functionality.
    For NON or Logged-Out members when you click on any Protected Category link/menu item in the front end, instead of getting a message that the content is for Members Only and direct you to sign up or other page, you get an error like page stating-

    Content not found
    The content you are looking for could not be found.

    If most of your Categories are member only your potential customer would never be able to see that the content on your site is restricted to members only (or see that there’s any content- for that matter) and will most likely be gone forever in less than 3 seconds. For you(the service provider) it is proven that you’re better-off the potential customer never land on your page THAN thinking your site is empty or faulty.
    I really doubt that someone will ever see the messages you setup in advanced settings if you protect your content by category…
    The magnitude of the bug is why I deduct 3 stars right away. It is simply unacceptable.
    Just my 2c.

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  • Plugin Author Jason Coleman

    (@strangerstudios)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    I assume OP isn’t using PMPro anymore, but for others who stumble upon this.

    There is a setting on the advanced tab of the PMPro settings to “Filter searches and archives?” If this is set to “Yes” and your category has only members-only content in it, when someone visits the category archive page it will look like there is no content there and you’ll see the default WP “Content not found” message.

    To avoid this:
    * Change that filter to “No”. (And maybe also change the “Show Excerpts to Non-Members?” option to “Yes”)
    * Or make sure there is some public content in your categories.
    * Or update your theme to account for categories with no posts found.

    We don’t typically do support on the reviews here. If you need support with Paid Memberships Pro, the fastest way is to become a PMPro Member and post in our member forums: http://www.paidmembershipspro.com/pricing/

    When I’m not spending hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars developing open source software and giving it away for free, I answer as much of the threads in the free wordpress.org forums as I can. You can post there: http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/paid-memberships-pro

    Sometimes other members of the community will answer your questions there. Sometimes, people I effectively pay $1-$10 per thread will answer your questions there. But if you can afford it, posting to the members forums is your best bet and we appreciate the people who do that.

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