Mark

When the upgrade process runs, it puts the site into maintenance mode. It can take a few moments for the upgrade process to import all your old data into the new format, and without putting the site in maintenance mode there’s a chance of the upgrade triggering twice.

Your site came out when the process was complete, not due to deleting the folder.

Give it another try. One of two things will happen due to deleting it directly; 1) it wont trigger the upgrade process because the first one completed successfully, or 2) it may run it twice and you’ll end up with duplicated listings. If the second occurs then you can deactivate and delete the plugin from the dashboard (which will trigger the built in uninstall), then re-install it.

Under Directory [lite] >> Settings, there should be three tabs; General, Email, and Submit Form.

Even before the update that tab should have been there, let me know if you find it.

503 error is usually caused by a configuration fault on the server, and is more often than not a coincidence when it occurs repeatedly on the same page.

The first thing you should do in this situation is check your error logs. The location of these will vary depending on your host. If you see nothing there that might help (and if anything relates to the plugin by all means post it here and we’ll take a look together), I would contact your host support and ask if they can track down any possible causes on their end. Sometimes it’s a rogue .htaccess, sometimes it’s a typo in php.ini, and they’re much better equipped to find it than we are through the forums.

Give that a shot first, and let us know what happens!

I have opened issues on our tracker for items one and two on your list, you can see them here:

https://github.com/mwaterous/ldd-directory-lite/issues/1
https://github.com/mwaterous/ldd-directory-lite/issues/2

Item 3 is an enhancement I am doing my best to get operational asap. There are some security vulnerabilities in the original plugin that I won’t describe here until I know it’s fallen out of general use; needless to say I can’t in good conscious adapt that system without fixing it.

When you upgrade from one plugin to the new, it imports all your original user information as WordPress users in a Subscriber capacity. This will let the plugin use the built in user authentication, so we can piggy back security concerns on core. What is missing is the UI for people to manage their listings. I’m aiming for this to be done within the next couple of weeks. You’ll know it’s ready when the version bumps from 0.5.x to 0.6.x, so keep a deactivated copy of the plugin around as it will notify you on the Updates page.

As for the default view, are you referring to seeing all listings on the front page of the plugin? There is “featured listing” functionality built in to the front page (simply tag listings with “featured” via the dashboard), and category views should have fully functional list/grid options as of now.

@wsmike and @mrsouza, per forum rules could I have both of you start your own threads? Thank you!

Nothing is working is right! Your post doesn’t seem to be working either, as there’s no explanation or description of the problem?

Done. As much as I’d like to make this easy for you folks, if I release a new version every time I make a change over the next little while I’ll be just short of spamming the plugins repository.

To that end, you can download the zip file from GitHub using this link, then upload the includes/ directory contained in the archive.

Once you finish uploading, navigate to the settings page on your dashboard, click on the ‘Submit Form’ tab and you’ll see a new option at the bottom that allows you switch the address requirement on and off.

The other requests will take a little bit longer, but hopefully not too much longer!