sassymonkey

Looks like when I posted last night, I got that common 500 error and when I refreshed it seemed to have double-posted.
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I’m positive my mail host is not scrubbing emails. Two reasons: I’m using two different hosts with four different domain names and received none of the emails in any case while reCAPTCHA is on. Also, I tested sending emails from my desktop and phone mail apps to all addresses using the same from address that WP is set to and always received mails. I’m pretty sure my hosts are not the problem.

As to host throttling because of two quick messages being sent, then I would not have received messages when I turned off reCAPTCHA. But, again, that’s when everything works fine.

SOLUTION
The answer seems to be in using an email address that matches the current domain name in the WP Settings > General > E-mail Address field. I also used that address in the WP-Members > Emails > Set a custom email address field.

Everything seems to be working perfectly WITH reCAPTCHA enabled.

I forgot to mention that I disabled all other plugins except the calendar and still had the same problem.

Another solution that I think could apply to many users of DCG is having a fourth method of automated post selection based on a Custom Field.

In my instance, I want to show posts in a certain category, but not the most recent ones. My client is entering posts for info about gallery exhibitions. This means that the most recent posts are actually the furthest away chronologically in terms of the physical gallery show and so should not show in DCG in favor of older posts that represent exhibitions happening sooner.

There are probably many people with this problem in WordPress. And, like many developers, I’m using event/calendar plugins that utilize custom fields for event date information. If I could target any custom field with a date entry (AND select either Ascending or Descending) within DCG settings, my problem would be solved.

This way DCG is always showing posts based on the upcoming gallery exhibitions regardless of when the post was entered and date stamped.

It seems to be working perfectly! Wonderful!

For those who want to know exactly what code I’m using:

<a href="/author-name/<?php $key = "author-name"; meta($key); ?>"><?php $key = "author-name"; meta($key); ?></a>

Where “/author-name/” in the anchor tag is the Slug specified in the field item entered with a custom field key of “author-name“.

Thanks so much for the quick turn-around on this issue. It really makes this whole plugin much more useful for a variety of projects in my opinion!
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BTW, I did notice a minor issue with the Advanced Settings section under Access. The check boxes do not remain checked after being selected and saved.

Is there a way to assign a specific template file to the More Fields slugs output in the same way you can for categories or archives?

If I can assign a template file to slug output then I can create a template file with the above header modification.

Any ideas?

BTW, it’s odd that I didn’t have this problem on my original install on BlueHost.

I would think that if Multisite needs all 8 lines, it would need it regardless of the host server. Hmm…

Ah-ha! I see what the problem was:

There’s a KEY 4 line block and a SALT 4 line block.

Having only ever seen the KEY version before in working with non-multisite WP, I did not notice a difference.

In other words, I was copying over the SALT with the KEY since I didn’t know there’s a difference.

I see now there are 8 lines total that need to be included in the wp-config file consisting of both SALT and KEY codes.

Thanks!