Gord
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Hello @monbauza,
Thanks for commenting on my review. Your reply was very detailed and I appreciate that.
I was specifically referring to requests for enhancement, not support questions. The support forum didn’t seem like the right place for that.
In particular, I would like the sitemap to be added to the robots.txt file. I had already found your blog post on robots.txt and found the argument in favour of omission to be unconvincing. Google allows you to add a sitemap, but will not force you to do so. And since Yoast does not do the typical $baseurl/sitemap.xml, I thought that it was not being generated. I tried to enable sitemaps, but I found that it was already enabled. It took me some time to locate the fact that you are using a sitemap_index file. To find this out, I needed to click the question mark and then hover over a link. Having it in the robots.txt file would make it more foolproof for the SEO novices (like myself). Also, making the sitemap URL more visible in the control panel would be very helpful. Hence my desire to file a request for enhancement.
The on/off setting for readability is rather brute force. I don’t want to completely disable it because it provides a lot of very useful feedback (for example, some sentences might be too long). I just want to set the thresholds to reasonable levels so that I can use the correct terms and not try to phrase everything in baby talk just to get a green bullet.
As for the purple eye, some of it works, some of it doesn’t, and some of it doesn’t have a purple eye. I think the broken ones happened after upgrading to 5.0.3 (after Joost recommended to do so), but I can’t be certain.
In any case, I will take your advice and create posts in the support forum to address my concerns.
Gord.
…with the caveat that you will need to remember to make the same change after every update. Not a workable long-term solution, IMHO.
Also, I believe that if it were really that simple, WD would have done this themselves long ago.
Not that I’m targeting this particular plugin. I spent most of a day evaluating many other form plugins. All of them had the same short-sighted design flaw (i.e. assuming that your form builders are also your site administrators). I had nearly given up when I finally found Formidable Forms.
I just want to allow others to benefit from my efforts.
Marking as resolved.
I finally managed to find a solution. For the benefit of others who find themselves in the same situation, the solution was:
- Deactivate Form Maker
- Delete Form Maker
- Install Formidable Forms
- Activate Formidable Forms
- Assign capabilities
frm_*to your roles, as appropriate
Hope that helps.
Yes, I have that installed and have already tried it. But it only seems to work if I give the editors the
manage_optionscapability. Obviously, it would be foolish to give my editors that kind of power; that would be little different than giving them theadministratorrole.I am beginning to get the sense that this plugin is not designed for sites with more than one user. Perhaps it was not a good fit.
If that is the only way to make this work, please consider this an enhancement request.
I deactivated the plugin, made the suggested edit, and reactivated the plugin. The account that I am using has the editor role.
The dashboard menu still does not appear.
Clicking the “Add Form” button in a page or post generates a modal dialog box that says “Access Denied”.
Thank you for your response to my query. Could you possibly elaborate on the kind of special plugin that can help me? Could you give an example? Or provide a search string that would help narrow it down?
It looks like the first thing the plugin does is:
if (function_exists('current_user_can')) { if (!current_user_can('manage_options')) { die('Access Denied'); } }I am not sure what kind of plugin helps with that and wouldn’t know how to search for it.
Thanks in advance.
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