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Wed, 4 Feb 2009 1:49:04
  • Bill007
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    If I install this plugin how will it effect my current Bloggers?

    I only want to set upload quota and want everybody who is existing on the platform to be able to continue to Blog with out bother

    [Edit] is there any type of guidelines for this plugin?

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hi Guys,

    I have uploaded the plugin and have entered the code as directed in the installation guidelines to make plugins only available to supporters but for some reason it doesn’t appear to be working.

    Oops, I didn’t realize those instructions were there. Disabling the plugins the way we have on Edublogs requires heavily modifying the plugins page. That’s not something I’m comfortable instructing premium members to do so we’ll have to go a different route. I’ll provide a plugin that removes the plugins page for non-supporter blogs.

    As a feature request could access to various themes be built into the supporter interface or would I be better suited to trying the upgrades plugin?

    That’s a possibility. I should note though that other than bug fixes for this plugin, we’ll be focusing on 2.7 compatibility issues for a while.

    If I install this plugin how will it effect my current Bloggers?

    That depends entirely on how you configure the plugin. If you just want to offer a quota upgrade then be sure to upload only the quota plugin. Read the installation instructions for more details.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • Ovidiu
    • Code Wrangler

    Oops, I didn’t realize those instructions were there. Disabling the plugins the way we have on Edublogs requires heavily modifying the plugins page. That’s not something I’m comfortable instructing premium members to do so we’ll have to go a different route. I’ll provide a plugin that removes the plugins page for non-supporter blogs.

    Soem of us are using plugin commander to hide the plugin page, can you maybe get this plugin working with that one as well?

    You should be able to change the quota per blogs in Site Admin > Blogs > Edit (default WPMU)

    that never worked, just tested: I set the quota of a blog higher than the default, then check that blog’s dashboard and it still displays the default quota there :slight_frown: didn’t work out with the upgrades plugin either, I had to subscribe to one of the packages to get more upload space for the main blog too…

    How about this one?

  • Ovidiu
    • Code Wrangler

    after upgrading the supporter plugin ( I just realized the date of publishing changed) I find out:

    a) the problem with not saving the number of free days for each new blog works now

    b) eaccelerator is acting weird, see screen shot http://screencast.com/t/alPB9zpPLYy it seems to chuck out the supporter_framework.php file the whole time :slight_frown:

    anyone else running eaccelerator seeing this in the eaccelerator control panel?

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hi Ovidiu,

    Soem of us are using plugin commander to hide the plugin page, can you maybe get this plugin working with that one as well?

    We won’t be integrating this plugin with the plugin commander. We’ll basically just be providing simple example plugins for use with the Supporter Framework. If a member needs something more advanced like that they’ll need to look into it.

    How about this one?

    What we’ve included is a basic quota plugin similar to the one we include with the Upgrades plugin. I’ll look into this issue but can’t guarantee anything.

    b) eaccelerator is acting weird, see screen shot http://screencast.com/t/alPB9zpPLYy it seems to chuck out the supporter_framework.php file the whole time :slight_frown:

    I think we’re using APC on our servers. I honestly have no clue why eaccelerator is kicking it out. There really isn’t any fancy code in that file. It may be due to the file size but that’s just a guess.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • Ovidiu
    • Code Wrangler

    sorry to nag again, but I had a look at the supporter quota plugin:

    function supporter_quota_inactive(){

    $default_quota = get_site_option(“blog_upload_space”:wink:;

    if( empty($default_quota) || !is_numeric($default_quota) ){

    $default_quota = 50;

    }

    update_option(“blog_upload_space”, $default_quota);

    }

    this looks ok, but doesn’t work. I assign a user a quota of 55MB and his dashboard still shows 50MB, after deleting the supporter plugin, his dashboard shows again 55MB!?

  • nggablog
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    [blockquote]Oops, I didn’t realize those instructions were there. Disabling the plugins the way we have on Edublogs requires heavily modifying the plugins page. That’s not something I’m comfortable instructing premium members to do so we’ll have to go a different route. I’ll provide a plugin that removes the plugins page for non-supporter blogs.[/blockquote]

    Is this available now?

  • nggablog
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    The next development of this plugin may be directed to divide user right when using plugins and themes.

    For example, I’d like to share a list of premium and free plugins/themes. So, free user only entitled to use the free plugin/theme. While premium member (paid member) can use the premium plugin/theme that we have set.

    I believe that this feature will be more useful.

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Should be able to do that already. Just do a check against is_supporter. We do something like that with Adsense widgets. If they have one of the upgrades, they get full use of the widget. If they don’t, the host gets 20% (or whatever percentage) of the displays.

  • leodore
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    I am confused… Does this plugin need to be run in conjunction with upgrades plugin or is it its own seperate plugin? I have downloaded and installed the plugin and am not seeing all these wonderful features about themes and plugins that you are talking about?

    I mentioned the plugin issue earlier and Andrew said that he would develop another plugin to disable the plugins for non-supporter blogs. The potential features of this plugin sound awesome and I think it is a must have but the installation I have doesn’t do all the things you guys are talking about?!

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Thanks.

    Have to admit that I would like the option to restrict to specific types the file uploads.

    I have a feeling though that the filter still isn’t applied correctly. I know when I tried it, it was applied to user and not individual blogs.

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    I found an issue. If you have a user who is within their preliminary period, when you visit the Supporter page, it’s giving you the “Unless you have canceled your subscription via PayPal, your supporter privileges will automatically be renewed.” message. There’s no option or link to actually subscribe or signup to continue the program.

    Hope this helps,

    -drmike

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    That’s really the best way to “disable” the plugins as it does exactly what you said, shows them what they’re missing out on. We just can’t instruct users to make hacks like that though. We’d be up to our ears in support requests from people editing the wrong bit of code, etc.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • nggablog
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Ho ho…

    I need to wipe out other plugins that are conflict.

    a list of conflict plugins that can not be used at the same time:

    > upgrades

    > pay to blog

    > supporter

    Unfortunately, among the three of the plugin above not once has not been meets my needs. Supporter plugin still needs further development to determine which plugins may be used by the user and free plugin which can be used only for the supporter. The interface to do this classification still darken.

  • jimchoice
    • New Recruit

    Yes, I am logged in as the main site admin for the main blog. I can see the plugin which is good.

    When I log in as site admin (of the sub-blog) for the sub-blog, I can still see the plugin menu.

    So, are you saying that this plugin doesn’t block the plugin menu for site admins of sub-blogs? If so, then that is the problem for me. The site admins of sub-blogs are customers of mine and I don’t want them to have access to the plugins menu unless they are paid supporters. Isn’t that what this plugin is supposed to do?

    If not, what code changes can I make to get this behavior?

    Thanks for your help Andrew,

    Jim

  • jimchoice
    • New Recruit

    Thanks. The new version worked. The plugins menu no longer appear in the sub-blog site admin’s backend. I see there was a change to the filenames using a “-” instead of a “_”. Not sure if that made a difference.

    However, there is a new issue in that version, probably a quick and simple fix. Now, there is a new top menu on the top of the page that is blank (with just an arrow). When you click on it, there is a link to “Supporter” which would be ok if it went to the page where the user could upgrade to a Supporter subscription but instead, it shows the Supporter options page where a sub-blog admin can change the main admin settings. Can you remove that blank top menu?

    Thanks,

    jim

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hiya,

    I see there was a change to the filenames using a “-” instead of a “_”. Not sure if that made a difference.

    That’s just me switching out underscores for dashes. There’s a chunk of code that I use in almost every plugin and I spent some time to update that bit of code a few months ago. Plugins with underscores have the old code and plugins with dashes have the updated code. This plugin accidentally got named with underscores even though it has the updated code. So I just updated the filenames.

    However, there is a new issue in that version, probably a quick and simple fix. Now, there is a new top menu on the top of the page that is blank (with just an arrow). When you click on it, there is a link to “Supporter” which would be ok if it went to the page where the user could upgrade to a Supporter subscription but instead, it shows the Supporter options page where a sub-blog admin can change the main admin settings. Can you remove that blank top menu?

    I can’t see the menu item on either of my test installs. Can you take a screenshot?

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    One of my clients raised a pair of issues.

    – We would like the option to rename the “Supporter” name and call it something else.

    – Leaving some plugins available to the non supporter would be nice. She has one of the anti scrapper plugins available to her clients under her plugin menu. I guess we could move that over to the mu-plugins directory and give it a turn on/off function.

    And a reminder about being able to allow those within their free period to go ahead and pay for their supporter status instead of waiting to have that time period run out would be a plus.

    edit: Also listing free supporter status, both as a grant and for beginning blogs, within the transaction table would be a plus.

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hiya,

    – We would like the option to rename the “Supporter” name and call it something else.

    This isn’t one of the planned additions at this time. For now the best thing to do is to just run a find/replace. Should take less than ten minutes even inspecting each instance for issues.

    – Leaving some plugins available to the non supporter would be nice. She has one of the anti scrapper plugins available to her clients under her plugin menu. I guess we could move that over to the mu-plugins directory and give it a turn on/off function.

    Unless I’ve missed something in the plugin page code that’s not possible without hacks. If someone can find a simple way to do this just let me know.

    And a reminder about being able to allow those within their free period to go ahead and pay for their supporter status instead of waiting to have that time period run out would be a plus.

    And a reminder about being able to allow those within their free period to go ahead and pay for their supporter status instead of waiting to have that time period run out would be a plus.

    We’ll look into this.

    edit: Also listing free supporter status, both as a grant and for beginning blogs, within the transaction table would be a plus.

    Not really sure what you mean here.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Not really sure what you mean here.

    Meaning when the site admin gives a grant of supporter status, a record of such is made in the transaction database. Also when a blog is first given Supporter status when first created, a record is made in the transaction table.

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Ah, gotcha. Sorry, was a bit confused there! :wink:

    Unfortunately I won’t be making that change as those events aren’t actually transactions. That feature is only to help keep track of/look up PayPal transactions. Basically if a user whines about their blog not being upgraded you can look up the transaction without having to gather their info and find it in the PayPal system.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Basically if a user whines about their blog not being upgraded you can look up the transaction

    Actually that’s why I was suggesting it. In the case of a user whining about an upgrade that was giving for free either at the start of their blog or by the intervention of a site admin, there would be a record of it occurring.

  • nggablog
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    – Leaving some plugins available to the non supporter would be nice. She has one of the anti scrapper plugins available to her clients under her plugin menu. I guess we could move that over to the mu-plugins directory and give it a turn on/off function.

    Unless I’ve missed something in the plugin page code that’s not possible without hacks. If someone can find a simple way to do this just let me know.

    Seem like I suggest previous above. I want to a free user still using some free plugins.

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    I guess if you get stuck, you can not use the “Hide the Plugins page” plugin, put the plugins you want for supporters elsewhere within their own subdirectory, and write a dirty and quickly mu-plugin where you do a check against is_supporter() and, if true, use an include to add in those plugins.

    That’ll probably work with the supporter themes as well.

    That’s just off the top of my head and three cups of coffee though. I know there’s that recent trac ticket on assigning plugins that’s still pending.

  • thepemberton
    • New Recruit

    There seems to be a problem with the Admin Menu for Supporter.

    Using the link at the *very* top of the Admin panel (http://domain/example1/wp-admin/admin.php?page=supporter.php), WPMU comes back with “cannot load supporter.php”.

    But when using Supporter -> Supporter, or the link on the bottom left of the Admin panel (http://domain/example1/wp-admin/supporter.php) it works properly and tells the Supporter when their privileges expire. Nothing else seems to fail – just this link. How might we hack the Admin topmost “Supporter” menu link to point to the working link?

  • mafunk
    • Flash Drive

    Two Quick Questions, Please

    1. If we have supporter installed can admin GIFT supporter status to certain people (so they don’t have to pay)?

    2. I think that answer to this is NO, but here is my question:

    Can we configure supporter so that some plugins are available to all users, whereas others are only available to supporters. Or do I need a custom hack? If I need a custom hack, how hard would it be for an experienced programmer to do for me?

    3. “supporter_write.php – Disables the “Write Post” and “Write Page” pages on non-supporter blogs – Note that the pages are never disabled for Site Admins”

    I don’t understand this feature. Why would anyone ever want a blog that would not allow them to write a page? It seems weird to allow people to create blogs but not allow them to create a single page unless they are a supporter. Am I missing something?

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hiya,

    1. If we have supporter installed can admin GIFT supporter status to certain people (so they don’t have to pay)?

    You can extend blogs at “Site Admin > Supporter”.

    2. I think that answer to this is NO, but here is my question:

    Can we configure supporter so that some plugins are available to all users, whereas others are only available to supporters. Or do I need a custom hack? If I need a custom hack, how hard would it be for an experienced programmer to do for me?

    That’s not a feature provided. An experienced WP developer should be able to help you out.

    3. “supporter_write.php – Disables the “Write Post” and “Write Page” pages on non-supporter blogs – Note that the pages are never disabled for Site Admins”

    I don’t understand this feature. Why would anyone ever want a blog that would not allow them to write a page? It seems weird to allow people to create blogs but not allow them to create a single page unless they are a supporter. Am I missing something?

    A lot of people want users to have to pay to blog.

    That feature is also optional.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Can we configure supporter so that some plugins are available to all users, whereas others are only available to supporters.

    Actually that’s how the upgrades plugin works. Download that and take a look at the included sample plugins. You’ll note that before any of the add_actions are run, it looks to see if the user has the upgrade. Just do the same thing but do it against a check against is_supporter().

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Two quick suggestions:

    – I would like to see a message on the supporter page showing that if the support is already one, showing them when their time runs out.

    – Also maybe a hook or a text area allowing the site admin to include their own message. (ie thanking them for upgrading, showing them a list of benefits for paying the bucks, etc.)

    edit: For #2 there, I’d rather see a hook come to think about it. That way, you can include a check against supporter. If true, show them a thank you message, if no, show them a list of benefits. Does that make sense?

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hiya,

    – I would like to see a message on the supporter page showing that if the support is already one, showing them when their time runs out.

    Already one there.

    – Also maybe a hook or a text area allowing the site admin to include their own message. (ie thanking them for upgrading, showing them a list of benefits for paying the bucks, etc.)

    I’ll look into this one.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • nbostic
    • The Incredible Code Injector

    I am using the latest version, have uploaded the supporter-plugins.php to the correct directory, but I am not seeing an option to enable/disable plugins on the root site admin Supporters settings page and I am still seeing plugins logged in as a sub-site administrator non-supporter blog. I’m clueless at this point as to what’s going on, but this is one of my last issues on my list before I can launch my site. Thanks for your plugins and help.