Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class ProSites_Module_XMLRPC in /home/user/public_html/wp-content/plugins/pro-sites/pro-sites-files/modules/xmlrpc.php on line 5
update I got the error when uploading 7 over 6 via ftp. I deleted the entire directory and then uploaded the .zip via wp-admin and everything seems a-okay now.
I reinstalled Wordpress and started installing plugins again and instead of ussing supporter decided to jump on Pro Blogs I was configuring Beta 6 then beta 7 came out and Downloaded the new beta7 and disabled beta 6 then uploaded the plug in over 6. Went to activate it and got a White screen can't access site now. Then got (You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page..) while going back and forth trying to regroup. Logged out deleted plugin now logged back in. re-uploaded Beta 7.
It worked this time.
I Figured So, That's why I deleted it and tried again. Trying to figure out the plug in its a lot different then Supporter. I have to install it on a test site and play before doing something wrong on main site.
But what I see so far it looks Great
This plugin is shaping up nicely, I am installing it for a customer and thought the blog selection could use a better interface so I did a blog selection drop down, this is the code (starts at line 1646 in pro-sites.php, this code replaces the text box where you manually had to enter the blog id that was there before.
<td><select name="bid"><?php
// Accepts a starting offset ($start) and maximun number ($num) of returned blogs, use 0 for no limit
function psts_get_blog_list($start, $num) {
global $wpdb;
$blogs = $wpdb->get_results($wpdb->prepare("SELECT blog_id, domain, path FROM $wpdb->blogs WHERE public = 1"), ARRAY_A);
foreach((array)$blogs as $details) {
$blog_list[$details['blog_id']] = $details;
}
unset($blogs);
// Return an empty array to prevent errors if there are no blogs found
if (!is_array($blog_list)) {
return array();
}
if ($num == 0) {
return array_slice($blog_list, $start, count($blog_list));
} else {
return array_slice($blog_list, $start, $num);
}
}
// Print the select list by fetching all available blogs
foreach (psts_get_blog_list(0, 0) as $blog) {
echo '<option value="' . $blog['blog_id'] . '" title="ID: ' . $blog['blog_id'] . '">' . $blog['domain'] . $blog['path'] . '</option>';
}
?></select></td></tr>
Perhaps the query should select from public and non-public blogs?
I hope it (or some variant of) can make it into the plugin.
How would this perform for very larger networks? Would that require a fancy ajax version to be more practical?
Are you listing the ID their or the name of the site? If it's the ID you still need to know the id of the site in relation to the customer to be particularly useful so maybe a search by email address to find all blogs registered to that address then select them by name.
What are your definition of very large? Creating fifty blogs with a total oct over 16k posts and a database filled with over 100k rows of metadata produced zero visible delay in this function versus three blogs. The site, when ready, will serve 400-1000 blogs.
The query only hits one table and will be unlikely to produce more than 100 bytes of data per row (for example: 4 bytes for the ID, 50 bytes for the domain, 46 bytes for the path). 1000 rows would therefore be about 100kByte, not too much memory.
Let's say it takes 0.5 seconds for a large query for 1000 blogs to complete, it is till only a fraction of the minute the administrator must spend to find the blog in the listing, hover over the link to get the id# and then return to the input and enter said id# into the text field. I would say that with this the time used to select the correct blog will be less than 1/50th the time compared to the old way.
Another part of the analysis is that this function is only used when the admin visits the select blog page, therefore the need for a super-optimized version will not be necessary.
As you can see when you look at the code I list both the ID, the domain (for subdomain installs) and path (for subfolder installs). The code can be easily extended to also show the name of the blog using get_blog_details.
I was thinking more like tens of thousands to 100,000 sites. (Edublogs for example is over a million blogs) I will be offering free sites and I have a list over 3000 opt in users that will likely become immediate users. Then there's an online marketing campaign will likely add many more users very quickly. I'll do the math and make a judgement call based on the numbers you've provided. I'll give your code a spin... thanks for sharing by the way :-)
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Thanks for sharing, but as said it's not scalable. We don't do anything thy can't be scaled in multisite. This plugin is going up on edublogs and a dropdown with 1mill+ blogs woul crash your browser. Actually you shouldn't really have any dropdown with more than a few hundred items in HTML.
How do you manage that number in Wordpress? We are testing WPMU on Amazon and are starting to see obvious slowdowns and memory problems and scaling problems on standard wordpress installations when reaching 100+ blog.
Thanks troykd, but will it support multi-db? Seems a bit wrong to dismiss a 50-fold increase in productivity for network admins (also, remember that this solution avoids all the other queries required to the database(s) when the admin is opening page after page browsing for the right blog) when the reason for that is not achievable anyway, no?
How is this a pro sites issue? Sounds like it's a multi site admin issue not a pro sites one. Might try to find a plugin with what you need. Did you look at directory or global site search plugins?
Are you referring to that nifty is_supporter thingy? I was just wondering about that myself. I'd like force a plugin to be activated once the site is no longer a Pro Site. Ideas are appreciated...
@KFUK-KFUM you are welcome to post those feature suggestions as you did. There are several suggestions on this thread so that's okay. You're original post was in fact a feature suggestion/request and you even were kind enough to share your code. I appreciated that.
But what we learned from that suggestion took us on the sidebar but that's totally understandable. We were attempting to answer the question of why your feature can't be included in an official release. I see no harm here.
also @KFUK-KFUM... I would start a thread at this point in the appropriate forum about how to scale your site up with multiDB and possibly even info on caching and CloudFlare technology. Sounds like you need that info.
k unless im completely blind... which is possible... there is no place to put add info into the beta so Im guessing that module isint complete or im just messin up somewhere
Then I'm perplexed on why you didn't start another thread instead of using the ProSites Beta thread which is completely unrelated.
Because I was perplexed by the argument (and wanted to reply to the post in this thread) that Pro Sites need to scale to millions of blogs while at the same time it does not support multi-db, which is essential for a Wordpress site to scale. It makes not sense to me.
@KFUK: I understand the confusion. This plugin will work with multi-db, but the developer who works on that plugin has been away and will need to look at the problems.
I'm trying to enter a URL for a user to Upgrade Via Command line http://domain.com/pro-site/?bid=1 that will bring site 1 (Main Blog to upgrade page) how do I pass the SITE_ID to the URL
Also I have a link on top of the main blog when I go into Site Admin that says
You have 14 days left in your Pro free trial. Checkout now to prevent loosing Pro features »
What happens to the main Blog after 14 days will I get locked out? Can I ignore it?
I also have a problem with the Domain Mapping Plug in
It will not except the url for the domain.
And by the way this is on a Totally New install
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Also I have a link on top of the main blog when I go into Site Admin that says
You have 14 days left in your Pro free trial. Checkout now to prevent loosing Pro features »
That's strange, how did you get the main blog into a trial? The main site always is a pro site.
I want to put it in a Page and a post to link to a payment page
That's strange, how did you get the main blog into a trial? The main site always is a pro site.
How No Idea?
theres the easy way of doing things and the hard way I always end up with the hard way it always takes me 3 extra steps to get anything correct I have no luck :>
On my install it is possible to assign the primary site to a level. I never did because I noticed that as Super Admin none of the limitations apply to me anyway.
Hi @LCDist ...
where do you put in the info for the advertisements free blogs see?
Where do I set the From: address for the system messages sent by this plugin? (Welcome, payment receipts, etc.)
It doesn't use the network setting as the supporter plugin did, but a "WordPress <wordpress@mydomain.com>" address, which I don't have anywhere in my config... i don't know where it came from.
I've also seen what seems like a bug in the PayPal payment procedure... when signing up via PayPal express, the initial signup and payment info is received immediately in the payment call, giving the user the level immediately. But then, a minute later, comes the IPN call... which initiates the payment receipt to be sent, but also extends the pro site level another period - giving the user twice the time he paid for.
Later recurring payments still comes on time, of course, but if the customer cancels he will keep the pro site level he has for one period longer than paid for.
(For example, a test user signed up for level 1 today, and then it said on the account page that even if cancelled the blog would continue to have the level 1 features until October 11, 2011... a minute later the IPN call comes, and it then says November 11, 2011.)
Do you have BuddyPress installed? That wipes out the network from setting for all emails, stupid I know.
No, no buddypress installed, never had it...
I had Supporter, but hadn't lauched the site yet, so I uninstalled it and are testing this instead...
The Network settings are still correct, just checked.
(To clarify; When testing supporter, the info was correct. I uninstalled supporter and installed pro sites - then the info was incorrect.)
That's strange, how did you get the main blog into a trial? The main site always is a pro site.
I just realized what might have happened.
I was checking out the link to pay for the Blog and went to paypal to see if it was working as it should But I did not pay. I saw what poohnix above wrote and it dawned on me maybe by doing what I did it didn't get paid and the opposite happened to me it took it away?
Now the question is how do I fix it, with out having to give myself pro every year :< ?
You can remove the Pro privileges altogether and you'll be back were you started. Super Admin's don't need Pro Site privileges so the primary site isn't on a Pro plan at all. As Super Admin you see everything that's hidden to the rest of the network anyway.
You can remove the Pro privileges altogether and you'll be back were you started. Super Admin's
@wecreateyou
OK good thanks
n2rga: Did it work with pro sites uninstalled? It doesn't install like most plugins.
@troykd
Thats a good question I tried after it was installed and I went to do my first personal site to test the signup then domain mapping I will try disabling it now
EDITED:
I disabled Pro sites and the domain mapping still didn't work.
I even moved the sunshine on statement in wp-config.php up above networking statements and disabled domain mapping and then enabled it by deleting the files and then reloading the site then re-uploading it. Still didn't work.
I disabled Pro sites and the domain mapping still didn't work.
I even moved the sunshine on statement in wp-config.php up above networking statements and disabled domain mapping and then enabled it by deleting the files and then reloading the site then re-uploading it. Still didn't work.
N2: If it was me, I'd start a thread on the Domain Mapping plugin.
I manually upgraded a Blog to Permanent Pro Site and when I went back to the blog logged out then in it still had
You have 12 days left in your Pro free trial. Checkout now to prevent loosing Pro features » on top.and You account Link takes me to the payment page
I have renewed my Membership here 2 days ago and I have just installed beta version of Pro Sites and I am quite surprised with it's functionality :O This isn't just new version of Supporter, this is whole new plugin and thanks for this amazing work!
I'll report bugs if I find any.
* UPDATE - Coupons - Adding form. When I am selecting date a calendar appears, but weeks and months names are in Japanese or Chinese or something.
* UPDATE - Plugin is still in beta, so please add only one currency in it - Georgian Lari (GEL). I asked same about MarketPress and it's OK if GEL will be built-in in following version, but as to Pro Sites, please add before releasing full version.
* UPDATE - Plugin creates page called "Pro Site", when I am opening that page it says "Please choose a blog to Upgrade or Modify", could you rename blog to sites (as you do everywhere)?
* UPDATE - wp-admin/network/admin.php?page=psts-settings - sites are called "blogs" almost everywhere (especially in descriptions of specific options).
* UPDATE - This blog is temporarily disabled until payment is received. Please check back later. - I think you know where this message is shown, but this isn't important. It's another name "blog" related issue - I believe "blog" is mentioned in many other places instead of "site", so I think you will take a look about it before releasing full version.
I have an issue with the Pro Sites settings page... Every time the settings are saved, backslashes are added for any quotes and such in the text boxes, and not stripped when shown again... so for every save more backslashes are added, unless I remove them in every text box before saving.
I've bypassed it by using curly quotes in text (for emails and such), but can't do it for html code...
I ended up narrowing my site down to a fresh wordpress install with the default theme just to test things... so its definitly a bad interaction between the 2 plugins
The new bbpress plugin coming out has issues with prosites... at least on the main sites page... I honestly have no clue how this worked so Ill just tell you everything I observed.
I installed wordpress followed by prosites...in which Im getting no Pro Upgrade or Pro Sites button in my dashboard for my site admin of the main site.... but I do in my secondary test site... not sure if its normal not to have one in the main site but every time I reinstalled pro looked the same so I am assuming thats normal.
Anyway I then installed bbpress plugin, I know its in beta also but I figure its best to catch these bugs early instead of after release.
On the primary network site, bbpress appears to work fine, you can make forums and categories however if you set a forum as belonging to a parent category you get an error saying the webpage dosent exist.
On the secondary test site on the same multisite wordpress with the same admin user, I turned on bbpress on that site and tried teh same thing, I could access all the forums as well as sub forums.
Now I have absoultly know idea how this error could be but Im no expert... I wont be messin with that test site again tonight so Ill leave the forums as is and link em here... when I wake up all bets are off on if they will still exist but for now here are the links:
Neither site above was upgraded in problogs and the bbpress plugin plugin itself was not network activated, it was activated on a site by site basis the admin user.
Sorry this post is so long but I wanted to try to get you enough info to diagnose whats goin on... hopefully some of what I found was usefull lol
Is it possible to charge a setup fee in addition to the monthly fee in either paypal express or paypal pro? On my site, I actually send out a starter kit because I'm giving users more than a blog and I need to charge a setup fee.
Agreed with nacke81. I want to do a setup/customization fee for doing an initial theme setup/customization to match their logo and then still have a recurring subscription going on after that for hosting and whatever plugin package they have subscribed to.
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Additional thought to get around this: this could potentially be remedied by forcing user registration sign-up cost and then they sign-up for a specific "hosting" plan or whatever. Would still be more useful to have it all integrated into one easy user flow though.
One thing that would be nice, (an not only in this plugin, but others where users are paying, like the membership plugin), would be to have the ability to use more than one currency.
Now I have to set up different sites depending on audience... most of my services are geared both towards US/international, (where USD is fine), and Europe and UK, where I would prefer to be able to offer EUR and GBP pricing.
Where this would be preferable, we have got used to dealng in USD online rather than GBP.
Well, in some cases, yes.
But the users by far prefer to use their local currency, if at all possible. (When given a choice, most even use their own currency even though it's consistently more expensive in the pricing we use, than paying in USD.)
My business is UK based, but the users are about 20% UK, 30% Europe, 45% US, 5% rest of the world.
Out of curiosity, when ProSites goes live, will the Easy Blog plugin be updated to go to the proper page when someone clicks "Supporter" in the Easy Admin section?
This plugin is looking very promising and one of the main reason of my membership :-)
More ore less everything runs fine abaprt from checking out with Paypal. Is this due to the beta release or a problem using it in Germany with € as currency?
Would it make sense to already start translating the plugin as there will only be minor changes in the GUI?
@kshengelia I do feel your enthusiasm, I absolutely love this plugin!
But having said that... I'm sure there's a really good reason we're still in beta and I'd rather be a bit more patient considering how many moving parts this plugin has and how many other plugins are being integrated with Pro Sites support.
If it's stable enough for your setup then use it in production, but I always trust the developer's call on this one. It's what you don't know that can hurt you.
@khengelia - I think it should be released with full support for Multi-DB environments.
I understand that the devs behind Multi-DB still have to sort out some very important issues.
Absolutely. Edublogs runs on multi-db so it's pretty important for them to get it right for the guy that signs the paychecks. The frustrating part is not having a timeframe. They say the developer is on break. Seems like a pretty long break since the multi-db issue goes back almost 2 months.
If you have subscribers, the goal is to get big enough to need multi-db so it's got to be a critical plugin to work with pro sites.
Yes, I perfectly realize your reasons why it should be in beta, but what if it is released now, and then it will be integrated with different plugins as an update. I mean, I, myself don't use MultiDB, so users like me are waiting for integrating this plugin with MultiDB in order to use this plugin without MultiDB, it's pretty funny :)
It may not be just multi-db. The Google +1 plugin didn't work with pro sites either. This is going back to Beta1 but I had to rename my plugin directory to get back to the admin panel. I haven't seen anyone say it works together now.
The silence from the Dev team though is deafening.
@troykd - Interesting you mention the "silence from the dev team" - they just released a big update for MultiDB (3.0.7) - it now has backend administration options which I have network installed but been unable to access.
So now I'm thinking that the MultiDB Dev may finally be back - hopefully Prosites-MultiDB integration is next.
they just released a big update for MultiDB (3.0.7) - it now has backend administration options which I have network installed but been unable to access.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that. Maybe we are making progress!
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Yes we will be updating all other plugins that have hooks into Supporter, though most should be backwards compatible without a problem.
I understand that the devs behind Multi-DB still have to sort out some very important issues.
Actually we just pushed out 3.0.7, can any of you guys who have multidb test with Pro Sites please? We're hoping it fixes the issue, but the real delay in this is we've never been able to recreate the issue in all 3 of our multidb test sites.
The Google +1 plugin didn't work with pro sites either.
Theres been alot of changes since beta1, I doubt it's an issue still (and was never confirmed bug originally).
This topic is already very passive (1-2 days goes so that no new reply is posted), this means bugs are fixed and there isn't any problems I think.
I've been working on it almost every day actually. But i've already recommended to go ahead with this in new installs, it's definitely ready. The main holdup is confirming the multidb issues are fixed, so anyone who can test that will be a huge help!
I've been working on it almost every day actually. But i've already recommended to go ahead with this in new installs, it's definitely ready. The main holdup is confirming the multidb issues are fixed, so anyone who can test that will be a huge help!
I have to say that I have tested it and found none of bugs (except several, posted above), but thing is I am not able to test
1) How it works with MultiDB - as I am running live network and I am not going to use MultiDB (as I am not going to get that big)
2) Check-out process as PayPal isn't available here.
Anyway, I was going to post a question about bbPress. You know, bbPress 2.0 finally came out as plugin and I am interested how it goes with Pro Sites - is it able sub-sites of network to have bbPress installed? It's kind of bbPress related question too (itself supports network-wide activation or not), but I'll test how it goes with Pro Sites plugin and will notify you.
Everything seems to be working fine except some of the bugs mentioned here. The biggest one that is staring me in the face is the free trial expiration notification for sites that have already upgraded to a paying site and should't see that warning.
I'm trying to get my site integrated with paypal express right now, and then upgrading to paypal pro shortly. Since I can't charge a setup fee in addition to the monthly fee, I'm having do the initial payment a little differently until I can make the adjustments to integrate a setup fee.
I'm planning on accepting payments starting Friday and launching in beta until I get all of these issues resolved, which means setup won't be automated for new customers, but at least I'll be able to do some real testing with the paypal integration.
Tested with MultiDB 3.0.7 and Prosites Beta 7 with 265 and 4096 configs
Findings:
1. Sites can now be created using admin panel and wp-signup.php (awesome)
2. Blog template works when creating a default site (awesome)
3. No more issues pertaining to being unable to save changes to prosite settings, prior issue of having settings erases is no longer happening (awesome)
4. Checking network performance settings - old multidb 3.0.6 with problogs 7 - 17 seconds of loading time - new multidb 3.0.7 with prosites 7 0.58 seconds(awesome)
5. Checking mod_fcgid logs ---> no more resource errors! (awesome)
@Aaron - with these recent developments, do you think that the Beta 7 is now stable enough (pending the production version) to be deployed on the production servers? I'm still testing and none of the old issues/problems are there anymore
@kshengelia - I think this is what you have been asking about ;) its seems ready for MultiDB
I've been testing the signup process and integrated with Paypal Express in the sandbox and I'm having a few difficulties.
During the signup process at wp-signup.php, I can't figure out how to get someone to actually go to paypal to pay. The new site can be set up perfectly, but I figured it would work like this
=> Page 1 - Username, email, pass ... click next
=> Page 2 - Site Name, Site Title, Site Description (using description plugin) ... click signup
=> Page 3 - Choose your subscription type (Free, Plus, Pro, Etc)
=> Page 4 - Goes to paypal to checkout
But I can't figure out how to give them a subscription option during signup to get them to paypal. The site automatically sets up as a free trial.
And here's another weird thing...
After I click the activation link in my email, I get a message that says "Success ... you can now visit your site or login" ... but when I click those links I get an error message that says "This site is temporarily disabled until payment is received. Please check back later. Re-enable now »"
So it seems like during signup, users are automatically assigned to a free trial and then, when they try to login to start using their free trial, it says "they need to pay" ... so it seems like the free trial option isn't working.
Yes we will be updating all other plugins that have hooks into Supporter, though most should be backwards compatible without a problem.
More specifically, which ones among the following have already been deemed compatible with Pro Sites and which ones will need an update?
- Domain Mapping
- Affiliates
- Supporter Advertising
- Multisite Analytics
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The new site can be set up perfectly, but I figured it would work like this
This is how it's designed to work. It's not possible to include it as part of the checkout process due to technical reasons and the WP activation process. Instead when they first login to their dashboard they will be shown the checkout page.
but when I click those links I get an error message that says "This site is temporarily disabled until payment is received. Please check back later. Re-enable now »"
That's because you have enabled the Pay to Blog module. You can customize the message, or deactivate that module if you don't need it.
If you want a free trial you need to configure it.
Thanks Aaron ... I was clicking the link that said "view your site" instead of the link that says "log in". By choosing "log in" to the dashboard, the warning notification never shows up and it works perfectly, redirecting to the subscription selection page. Very nice!
I just removed the "view your site" link after signup because it would probably be confusing to new members.
With the pro sites if a subscriber cancels their paypal auto payment for their pro site, will this plugin auto turn ads on the subscriber's website after the payment due date?
Well, I went ahead and started to install beta 7 on our production system. I ran into a few bugs. The first is that quotes in the settings messages are double-escaped. So, if I set up one of my emails to include a quotation mark, next time I load the settings page, I see \" instead of ". Rather than digging into it, I just killed all the contractions in my messages.
The second was a bug I had to fix. Around line 2367 I changed it to:
There was an issue with using the selected() function on an array that I'm assuming (by the @ usage) doesn't always exist. Putting that in a condition has fixed the problem so far.
I already took the risk starting to translate the plugin as I don't expect too many changes from the UI.
This is just to inform you, that there are many parts in the admin area that are translated, but not shown in the final language.
Did anyone figure out what to do about the free trial expiration notice at the top of the admin dashboard? All new users on my install have a notice that says "you have 6 days left" on a ten day free trial. I assume it's because my first trial user started 4 days ago.
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will this plugin auto turn ads on the subscriber's website after the payment due date?
Yes
I see \" instead of ". Rather than digging into it, I just killed all the contractions in my messages.
The second was a bug I had to fix. Around line 2367 I changed it to:
I'll fix those.
Will the stable version support 2co payment system?
We plan to add other gateways soon, not in this initial release though.
there are many parts in the admin area that are translated, but not shown in the final language.
Make sure you update your .po file. Theres alot of changes going on still.
There is an issue with enabling premium themes on any subdomain blog.
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/wp-admin/admin-header.php:34) in /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 934
I just noticed the "blog" mention after someone subscribes. It shows up on my site after a payment has been successful made ... it says "Your PayPal subscription modification was successful for ..."
Thank your for subscribing to ...
Visit your newly upgraded blog »
Chris M. - Did you figure out where this is to change it? I'm going to have to get that fixed today too.
Something else worth mentioning ... if you set your accounts up with monthly/quarterly/annual payments and are offering a free trial, the checkout page will show all three options for the free trial. This doesn't really make sense to offer an annual $0 payment for a limited time free trial.
@Thorstend, yes that is the way I used in recent version of Pro Sites called "Supporter", but if Pro Blogs are changed to Pro Sites, why not translate "blogs" to "sites" everywhere (in core and not with PoEdit)? I think this it would be translated for full release.
Very cool Aaron. I'm going to start testing everything now.
I already noticed one strange thing. I'm testing Paypal Express right now in the sandbox and after choosing a paid subscription and then returning to the site (by the way, noticed you removed blog here ... nice) ... when I go back to the dashboard, it still shows the trial notification at the top.
Is this just because I'm in the sandbox? Will this stop showing if I turn paypal to live?
There's a bug in the trial_notice function. Currently it gets $expire by:
$expire = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT expire FROM {$wpdb->base_prefix}pro_sites WHERE gateway = 'Trial' AND expire >= '" . time() . "'");
Notice anything missing? I stared at that function for 20 minutes before I realized that it's not passing $blog_id to the SQL query, so it's ALWAYS getting an expiration as long as there's one or more active Trial accounts. The query needs a blog_id = $blog_id added.
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Yes, that was fixed in the last version.
when I go back to the dashboard, it still shows the trial notification at the top.
I'll fix that in the next version. When in a trial period PayPal gateway was delaying the first payment until the trial was up, so the trial flag for gateway was not getting set to PayPal on checkout.
So should we still not be able to use the supporter advertising plugin? when I go to enable it it tells me that I need to enable the module first... and yes before you ask... the module was enabled lol
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Yes, though I will probably be integrating that plugin directly into Pro Sites Ads module later, as it's a bit confusing for them to be separate.
Well, waiting for that with great impatience ! :) :) :)
Works fine for me, exploring great functionnalities. Good job !
Well, may I insist on the "insert ads code" thing we have discussed some times and the problem on the auto excerpt use on many themes that shows ads code instead of ads generally on main pages or archeve pages.
Pay attention to that, because that mean almost 40% of the themes in farm pack and some (as buddyperss business or social) are NOT usable as free themes with ads on a multisite.
Bravo !
:)
PS : hum.... well... so... how can i say... mmmmm....and.... what about the moneybooker thing ?
Is there a way to change the order of the levels shown on the upgrade page?
I added them in order, but they are showing up in reverse order on the page, so the highest priced is at the top and the lowest on the bottom, but I want them to show the other way.
If someone buys an upgraded level, will all of the sites they've created (as a user) be upgraded or just one? If multiple, can it be forced to just one? Thanks, sorry if this has been covered before.
Is there a way to change the order of the levels shown on the upgrade page?
I added them in order, but they are showing up in reverse order on the page, so the highest priced is at the top and the lowest on the bottom, but I want them to show the other way.
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Add this to your wp-config.php file - it reverses the order of the packages
//this is for Prosites
define('PSTS_DONT_REVERSE_LEVELS', true);
It's ok, I was blind, I've seen the bulk upgrades section now, but is it possible to select different bulk packages for each level, or just a single level?
I have some minor cosmetic improvements to the Pro Sites Levels screen I would like to see. One is adding a class to the button to make it a proper Wordpress button and the other is a fix for a nicer line height by wrapping the currency abbreviation in a label element.
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Hi all,
First of all Great work Aaron. Still... I have an enhancement request.
Lets say We have 3 levels of ProSites. Pro1, Pro2, Pro3
When you want to edit a site having the Pro2 level and give some extra or ONLY some specific plugins to it, you go to the Site-> Edit-> scroll down to the plugins and there you find ALL the plugins that are NOT network activated.
The screen reads:
Plugin Override Options
Checked plugins here will be accessible to this site, overriding the Premium Plugins settings.
But it actually does NOT override the settings. It just adds the extra plugins you choose to the already existing ones permitted by the level the site is in. Meaning all the plugins for Anyone, plus all the plugins for Pro1, plus all for Pro2 plus the ones you choose. Correct?
I would expect it to ONLY allow the ones you choose. Is it possible to achieve this?
In both cases (adding some extra plugins or checking specific ones that override the Premium Settings) it would be very helpful to have an extra field next to the plugins' name showing their minimum Pro Site level, picked up from the Premium Plugins screen:
Akismet Anyone
Hello Dolly None
Lightbox Pro1
MarketPress Pro2 and so on...
The same applies for the Pro Themes as well.
What does everyone else thinks?
Any +1 on the subject?
The free trial is a great idea, unfortunately it's not working on my day old install.
I enable the free trial and set the level. Log out and when I come back, it's back on disable and the first level. Plugins activated are prosites, multi-db, domain mapping, WPMU DEV Update Notifications.
The free trial seems to be working on my install. But I'm not using muti-db or domain mapping.
Here's a quick note about the paypal payments though.
I'm now using the plugin on a live site with live paypal express integration. Everything seems to be working except when someone upgrades from a free trial to a paid subscription, the date for their first payment in paypal is set for the day their trial ends. Not a huge deal, but it would be nice to get the money right away.
I guess that's why the free trial expiration notification that counts down the days still shows up at the top of the screen after upgrading.
Pro Sites is all looking great now, thanks for all the hard work :o)
At some point, will a large number of the other plugins include some Pro Site code? It would be really good to have a variety of options built into the other plugins so that if a member has gone Pro, they will automatically be able to take advantage, such as the way Domain Mapping works.
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Yes, continually more. A large number already do though, such as:
New Blog Templates
Privacy Options
Google Analytics
MarketPress
Membership (will need updating)
Ads
Domain mapping
Easy Blogging
Maybe others...
I enable the free trial and set the level. Log out and when I come back, it's back on disable and the first level.
I think you are not understanding it. Free trials are applied only to new blog signups, at the point of signing up.
I understand but as Network Admin, when I set the prosite setting up for free trial, they don't stick. It goes back to disabled after I log out as network admin.
I removed all supporter files from root, plugins, and mu plugins
there are a few plugins i want to add to see if they work with pro sites.
affiliates - i dont think pro sites has anything to do with this but i need something that will let me know who referred X and how much X paid - if i give affiliate 40% do i have to manually check X site to see if they paid monthly, quarterly, or yrly?
I was thinking i could give people coupon codes (pro-site) pro site does tell me how many times the coupon was used but it does not tell me what it was used for. so someone could use the code for monthly or yearly.
i also tried playing around with ad sharing and support advertising and when i try to install either of those the site errors out and says please install the support ads modual in mu-plugins.
after i do this i get a function call error saying i need to install supporter?
i think the pro-sites is a lot nicer than supporter but i really would like to do the following
1-show advertisments on non upgraded sites
2- set up an affiliate network so i know who referred x and how much x paid with out manually looking.
any input?
@thinkmarketact You need to also install the Affiliate plugin from WPMU Dev in order to do a lot of the things you mentioned. Once you do, you'll be able to see who referred whom by going to /wp-admin/index.php?page=affiliatesadmin
Now after re uploading the supporter ads mu plugins file and then removing them i get the following error when i try to go to the main sites admin back end
network back end works fine
sub sites and sub site back end all work fine
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare supporter_show_ads() (previously declared in /home/sites/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins/supporter-ads.php:157) in /home/sites/public_html/wp-content/plugins/pro-sites/pro-sites-files/modules/ads.php on line 488
A little issue with the the URL of the checkout page. When there's another argument on the page request (like lang=fr in a multilingual environment for example), the URL is wrong (a second '?' instead of a '&' seperator).
I scanned 2 places in the code where it could be changed like this:
Does anyone have to deal with more than one currency with Pro-Sites? Let's say a level at $150/yr and EUR100/yr. If yes, how did you do so far? Not just PayPal applying the change rate of the day of course.
Does anyone have to deal with more than one currency with Pro-Sites? Let's say a level at $150/yr and EUR100/yr. If yes, how did you do so far? Not just PayPal applying the change rate of the day of course.
I haven't done it, but would like to have this option too. I mentioned it in an earlier post, and it would be nice to see in future releases.
I hoped I could build a patch and make it multi-currency, but the way it's done, it's unfortunately impossible (there's not even a currency field in the wp_pro_sites table so the amount is always meant in the same default currency).
So yes, it would be more than nice to have this option in a future release. Giving to the customer the ability to pay in their own currency allows a much higher conversion rate (European people don't like to pay in US dollars and American people almost never pay in Euros). So the sooner the best for this feature actually.
@Aaron, would it be too late at this stage of progress (RC1) to just make this version just multi-currency "friendly" or compatible by storing and using the currency in the database and ensuring both amount and currency may be ovrriden by extension with custom code (plans, coupons, etc.)?
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That's a huge undertaking and currently none of our plugins (or any others out there) support this type of setup. You also have to deal with gateways though. The vast majority only let you receive payments in the currency of your account, PayPal for example this is not possible.
Huh?
Of course it is. you can set payment currency to anything you want; I have this in almost all my custom coded web sites.
It's just a matter of what you set the currencyCodeType parameter to for express checkout payments, or CURRENCYCODE for direct payments with website payments pro, and in your account you can set up any currencies you want to receive in, with balances for each currency.
That's been possible for years and years and years in PayPal.
You MAY block payments made to you in a currency you don't hold, but you can either open a balance in that currency, or convert it in YOUR end when any payment is done. Still, that doesn't affect the buyer, he still pays the same amount in HIS currency.
I prefer to hold multiple currencies in my account, since I often make payments in various currencies, and therefore avoid exchange fees... only time is when I withdraw the money.
Sorry, the nvp paramater is CURRENCYCODE both for express checkout and direct payments with website payments pro. The other was an internal parameter in PayPals example code. My mistake.
I still like to see this both in this plugin, and in the membership plugin... both has the same issue, forcing me to create separate web sites for each audience.
Having multiple currency options makes a huge difference in conversions...
At least, would it be possible to allow overriding the defaut "Supporter" level? In other words, change the implementation of the 'is_supporter' function by something like this:
The upgrade notice/form is failing accessibility tests, mainly by missing radio buttons and labels but acts like it should have, users with screen readers will discover the form, see the table and then read the content and then the "No thanks, I'll pass" but never gets the ability to select any of the options.
Also, of minor importance, there is a bug in the site.com/pro-site/ page that causes PHP to give warning messages for each subscription period if PHP debug is E_ALL:
Warning: number_format() expects parameter 1 to be double, string given in /kfuk-kfum-dev.fyrkantigt.se/wp-includes/functions.php on line 155
Warning: number_format() expects parameter 1 to be double, string given in /kfuk-kfum-dev.fyrkantigt.se/wp-includes/functions.php on line 155
Warning: number_format() expects parameter 1 to be double, string given in /kfuk-kfum-dev.fyrkantigt.se/wp-includes/functions.php on line 155
Noticed this on on my add on site at top
You have 100489 days left in your Pro free trial. Checkout now to prevent loosing Pro features »
Is this the intended message for a site
the history of the site is this
2011-09-14 3:40:33 pm Pro Site level upgraded from "Pro" to "Pro Elite".
2011-09-14 3:40:32 pm Pro Site status expiration permanently extended.
2011-09-14 5:24:14 am Pro Site status expiration extended until September 28, 2011.
My first end to end testing with Pro Sites and PayPal Express Checkout and it's not very successfull: I'm stuck on the upgrade page with the following error returned by the 'SetExpressCheckout' function:
- Error code = 10002
- Short message = Security error
- Long message = Security header is not valid
By the way, this error is not displayed on the upgrade page, is it normal?
Of course I created and entered my PayPal API settings (Username, Password and Signature) and I subscribed to Express Checkout on my business PayPal account. Additionally, I'm from Canada and I access my account from the Canadian site, so I setup the Canadian site and the Canadian dollar in Pro-Sites. And I'm in test mode.
What am I missing? Just creating a sandbox account instead of using my live business account?
Just a quick additional question: why Express Checkout and Payments Pro but not Payments Standard? Is there a technical reason or just missing time? Is it planned for a future release?
Thanks.
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I'm a bit confused as to whether I need the pay to blog along with pro-sites. We don't offer a "free" option, they are all paid.
If it's a new setup, use pro sites with pay-to-blog module. Separate pay to blog will be discontinued once backwards compatibility is built into the module.
- base_country
- active_message
Base country is the setting on general used for shipping/tax calculations. active_message is not in MP, not sure where you are seeing that.
Security header means your API info has a problem. If you are using the sandbox you need to enter sandbox API info, ditto with live.
Re: Standard Paypal - thats what the old supporter used, and is far less powerful. Express is still free but allows for:
- Seemless checkout, redirect back to payment page
- Upgrades/Downgrades
- Cancelations
- Refunds
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You have 100489 days left
Good catch that would be how many days till the next y2k bug (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem for you nerds) which is really what permanent extending changes it too. I'll fix manually extending so that it overrides the gateway field and stop showing as a trial.
can the affiliate package work with this?
Affiliate should work for this for the first payment just as it did for supporter.
Base country is the setting on general used for shipping/tax calculations
Okay. But I scanned the entire code, and the only place it looks appearing is on defining its default value. It's not even settable, is it? So can we change it, and if yes, how except by custom code?
active_message is not in MP, not sure where you are seeing that
Well, it's defined on line 211 of pro-sites.php, so stored in the settings. It's the only place I could find it in the code.
If you are using the sandbox you need to enter sandbox API info
Yes, I have my answer.
Standard Paypal - thats what the old supporter used, and is far less powerful
Than Express Checkout? It still allows CC payment for free (no monthly nor SSL fees). So it's definitely dropped?
Hey I may of found a potential problem when I was messin around with t rying to get problogs to work with the support system, but was getting issues with it recognizing the function is_supporter... pro blogs was getting loaded after incsub since when I changed the folder name to zincsub it started working again
*Edit* of course markepress has no issues so I dunno maybe it wasnt load order...maybe changeing folder names did somthin else... but still you guys are smarter then I am so you can draw your own conclusions lol
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Yes it's load order, responded on the other thread.
as to PayPal Standard, yes it is gone because express is also free and allows for:
- Seemless checkout, redirect back to payment page
- Upgrades/Downgrades
- Cancelations
- Refunds
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The upgrade notice/form is failing accessibility tests, mainly by missing radio buttons and labels but acts like it should have, users with screen readers will discover the form, see the table and then read the content and then the "No thanks, I'll pass" but never gets the ability to select any of the options.
Hmmm, how should I degrade it? Should it use a noscript tag?
Also, of minor importance, there is a bug in the site.com/pro-site/ page that causes PHP to give warning messages for each subscription period if PHP debug is E_ALL:
I'm having trouble recreating this. What are the levels/plans you have and dollar amounts for each?
Hmmm, how should I degrade it? Should it use a noscript tag?
You need to have the buttons be <input type="radio" id="unique_name"> and use <label for="unique_name">, when that is done you can use JavaScript to replace/hide/modify the inputs to look however you want. Doing so is not so much about degrading gracefully but rather about the basis of writing semantic HTML.
Turns out the warning messages was due to some amounts were empty.
Aaron - If I save settings in prosites, it removes all of the selected elements in the modules settings (nothing is checked). I don't have to change anything in settings, just hit save and it wipes out the settings in modules.
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Will do, though this will be the hook: $desc = apply_filters('psts_pypl_checkout_desc', $desc, $_POST['period'], $_POST['level'], $paymentAmount, $discountAmt, $blog_id);
Yes, you're absolutely right on the second argument. My mistake, I was a bit fast on this one.
Though, what will be the value of the '$discountAmt' argument when there's no discount: 0, false or NULL? Just to be sure to test it correctly.
Thanks.
I’m experiencing unexpected results after the checkout process.
Let’s say I’m a user with a free blog and I want to upgrade my blog. On the upgrade page, I select the higher level, I Express Checkout, and when I come back from PayPal I’m told my subscription was successful. Until here, everything’s right. Now I come back to my upgrade page and I have no information anymore about my subscription. In fact, I have the exact same page as before upgrading, asking me to choose the right plan for me. However, I have still access to the level’s features. Am I missing something?
To complete the test, I repeat the process: I Express Checkout the same plan and follow the same process one more time. Now I have the whole information about my subscription on my upgrade page! What did happen? Why not the first time?
Even more confusing, now I receive an email telling me not to forget to cancel my old subscription! Did I pay and/or subscribe twice? Is the checkout button not also used to just update the payment information?
So as a good boy, I cancel my subscription with the only button available. Now I’m told I don’t have any current subscription anymore, so I Express Checkout one more time! Finally, everything seems right now, but how many times did I actually pay and/or subscribe? Is this whole process a normal scenario?
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ow I come back to my upgrade page and I have no information anymore about my subscription. In fact, I have the exact same page as before upgrading, asking me to choose the right plan for me. However, I have still access to the level’s features. Am I missing something?
So they got access to the level they paid for, but the paypal sub info was not shown above the plan buttons?
What information can you give me about the blog before it was updated? Was did it have an expiration in the future? Had it previously been a supporter blog with old supporter at any time?
Old supporter paypal subscriptions cannot be canceled programatically, so if they change their plan or upgrade it will attempt to detect that and send the email to cancel the old sub themselves in PayPal.
So they got access to the level they paid for, but the paypal sub info was not shown above the plan buttons?
Yes, exactly.
As per your other questions, I'm currently in test mode on a brand new platform. So no legacy Supporter at all nor any actual financial impact for the moment. The blog was created through BuddyPress signup 2 minutes earlier. I even did it twice with 2 new blogs with the same behavior.
Looking at the code, it's like the condition on line 1199 is always false after the first checkout, isn't it?
@Aaron, I found the bug. You just have the switch order of lines 1621 and 1622 in gateway-paypal-express-pro.php. This way, when there's no initial profile id for the blog (my case on first checkout), the last element of the array (popped out in the getter function) is the id itself instead of the timestamp. It explains why it works from the second time on (the timestamp is updated as the second element of the array while the new profile id is added at the end). It also explains the manual cancellation email since the first subscription is viewed as with an old gateway (lines 806 and 811).
While being in the 'set_profile_id' method, I've noticed that the timestamp is set in the array with the $txn_id key that is not declared nor initialized so the key is always empty.
Sorry if This is somewhere in the previous posts but I couldnt find it anyway.... is there a way to export the prices out to a phpfile.. I was considering making a more or less static features table with a few dynamic elements like perhaps prices, quotas maybe, and number of plugins or themes if possible but prices would be the real nice one
I see in t he code around line 305 and such deals with prices and such where you have price_1 price_3 and so on.... are any of those variables able to be used in a pages php file, in other words are there any global variables I can use. Im getting better at the coding stuff but not the best yet so asking before I screw somthin up lol..
2nd question... coupons I know you can set expiration dates and such... but can you make a coupon that would expire so no one else can use it after a certain date but would continue to discount the ppl who have used the coupon for the duration of their membership..... was considering offering like a 50% off grand opening for the life of their membership... woudl go for a month or so then end but the way Im seeing the coupon system...and correct me if Im wrong but their rates would go up after that month when I really only want it to go up for new members.
This is now a very long thread and it is a bit hard to work out where things are up to.
Any chance of starting a new thread that lets us all know where the beta is up to and what bugs/features are still to be fixed prior to the official release?
I am not confident about modifying checkout code too much (too many bad PayPal bugs have bitten me) but I think think that the <input type="radio"> I introduced can be merged with the hidden input for even simpler markup.
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@asimetrick, thank you very much, that was a particularly nasty bug you found! The timestamp should have been under the $profile_id key.
Re Prices:
They can be found in the levels array: $levels = (array)get_site_option('psts_levels');
For an example of how to display them examine the checkout_grid() function
but can you make a coupon that would expire so no one else can use it after a certain date but would continue to discount the ppl who have used the coupon for the duration of their membership
I plan to add this capability in a future version, no point delaying release for this.
When I add language pack for pro-sites.Network dashboard translated fine,
but user dashboard is not translating.
Hmmm, not sure how that could happen. Have you updated your po file? Also are you sure it's not translating? Can you give me a specific string that's not?
Not sure if this has already been raised but there seems to be a double counting of the 'paid for' period when a subscription is created (presumably as a result of the IPN notifications)
The output below is copied from a site log and shows two extensions on a newly created monthly subscription.
2011-10-08 4:51:42 pm Payment receipt email sent to hh@web-design-newcastle.co.uk
2011-10-08 4:51:41 pm Pro Site status expiration extended until December 9, 2011.
2011-10-08 4:51:40 pm PayPal IPN "Completed" received: £7.50 express_checkout payment received, transaction ID 59N88539K7348014L
2011-10-08 4:51:39 pm Signup success email sent to hh@web-design-newcastle.co.uk
2011-10-08 4:51:38 pm Pro Site status expiration extended until November 8, 2011.
2011-10-08 4:51:37 pm User creating new subscription via PayPal Express: Subscription created (Tinker Tailor Network Pro: £7.50 GBP each month) - Profile ID: I-CN8ST2VLA472
2011-10-08 4:51:33 pm User creating new subscription via PayPal Express: Initial payment successful (Tinker Tailor Network Pro: £7.50 GBP each month) - Transaction ID: 59N88539K7348014L
2011-10-08 4:50:42 pm Pro Site status has been withdrawn.
The Paypal sandbox account correctly reports the the next payment due on November 8 but obviously the 'supporter' will see December 9 as the next due date. This will be confusing at best.
Just upgraded the same account to a 3 month subscription which has been set with the later creation date effectively missing a month in between. It also looks like the original subscription wasn't suspended or cancelled - not sure if this is by design and we need to notify subscribers to manually cancel the redundant profile.
I mentioned the double counting of the "paid for" period in a post 12th September, but it may have been overlooked. I didn't give as much details then, though.
Hey Johnny, thanks man! Yes, I understand. From what I understand it's impossible to have them pay during signup due to the nature of Wordpress signup.
That's a great suggestion, Thorsten! :) Does it work perfectly with WPMU and Supporter?
My other question now:
Imagine I want to show a category of posts to supporters only, if they're not supporters and try to access the posts they're redirected to a page. What's the easiest way to do this now?
So far it passed all my tests with WPMU. There are some themes where it doesn't look too good but I'm sure if you are more experienced with PHP and CSS, than I am you will be able to solve that minor challenge.
I'm not using it with Support as I am still in beta and waiting for the final release of Pro Sites with with it works so far.
Let's say I'm a user upgrading a blog. I have a coupon so I enter it. In PayPal, I can see the discount on the first payment as expected.
Now I come back to my upgrade page and:
1 - I can still enter a coupon, even the same if it has mutiple occurences
2 - The discount appears in the checkout description in PayPal, still on the first payment that has already been made
Is it normal? Aren't coupons reserved for first payments so it shouldn't even be possible to enter any after the first checkout?
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Is it normal? Aren't coupons reserved for first payments so it shouldn't even be possible to enter any after the first checkout?
Hmmm, that's a good point. It would technically be possible to apply a coupon to the first 2 payments right away, and more if the coupon was left open for a long time. I guess I need to include a log of coupon codes used by a blog to limit it to once per blog.
Now to catch up with the rest of these bug reports...
I guess I need to include a log of coupon codes used by a blog to limit it to once per blog.
I was precisely looking for such a log in the code and didn't find any, so it was my next request... Great if you implement it for the next release with a function/API to check it.
Just a reminder on a very minor bug: in pro-sites.php on line 493, the menu is added on index 4 which is the index for WordPress's menu separator. Index 3 being taken by BuddyPress until version 1.2, I propose index 2. Or even 200 to follow the same trend as BuddyPress...
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but I have a few questions about this plugin and it's possible uses.
First, I'm creating a memorial website for children. I need 3 packages - Basic, Plus & Pro (not sure of the names yet). The basic package will be free (forever) but have limited pages, posting, members/users/admins, plugins and themes. It will also not have domain mapping. Plus (still with limitations but more than basic) & Pro (will have all enabled) will have those additional features.
From the main site, I only want members/users to be able to sign up for a site (I believe I can just edit the sign-up page to auto select "Gimme a site" and hide "Just a username, please."). I would like the option to choose the package right then. If an user chooses "Basic" then it should create the account, done. If not, then it should direct them to a payment page.
Now here's the tricky part ... once an user is a "Pro" member and their membership expires, I'd like it to automatically downgrade to the "Basic" level - but not delete their content. Could the content be marked "Draft" with a note that they need to resubscribe? Or something similar? I also want to somehow limit each user to only 1 blog/1 site.
Is this something that can be done? I searched the forums but couldn't quite seem to find the information I needed. The Pro Sites seems to have a few more options than the Supporter plugin and seems like it'd fit what I need but I can't seem to figure out how to configure it.
Also, as a side-note, each time I save the settings, it inserts a new page in the main site as "Pro Sites". Shouldn't it just re-save the one? All the pages are blank except the newest one (which had the levels and a link to PayPal). When will this plugin be released for production?
I'm experimenting with a Godaddy Hosting account with WordPress installs for several secondary domains (e.g., SecondaryDomain1.com, SecondaryDomain2.com, and SecondaryDomain3.com managed within my primary Godaddy account under PrimaryDomain1.com. Will WordPress MultiSite activation and/or Pro Site activation on SecondaryDomain3.com necessarily conflict with WordPress Databases previously created with the GoDaddy WordPress Installer for SecondaryDomain1.com and SecondaryDomain2.com?
When I activated WordPress MultiSite for SecondaryDomain3.com using the WordPress tools to set up a Network under SecondaryDomain3.com, I got the "Warning: An existing WordPress network was detected"..."To create a new network, you will need to empty or remove the network database tables".)
When I tried to activate the Pro Sites plugin on the third of three secondary domains I got the following error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function switch_to_blog() in /home/content/87/7924087/html/secondarydomain3.com/wp-content/plugins/pro-sites/pro-sites.php on line 187
Hi, I also have GoDaddy hosting and there are several issues with the hosting that need to be worked out prior to getting Multisite working correctly. How much do you know about FTP and your hosting account? What type of hosting do you have? How many domains on being hosted in the same hosting account? Are you comfortable playing with/changing the settings? If so, please let me know and I can walk you through some of the issues you are having.
In regards to the error with Pro Sites, I personally found it only worked when I installed it in mu-plugins. However, the error you are getting could be related to the first error you got when you tried to activate the network.
With Pro Sites approaching "official" release, as mentioned by Aaron, I'd suggest the plugin page to be up so that we can have the most updated info on this major plugin.
Also, Pro Sites seems to be a major revamp and successor of Supporter, hence, sufficient details must be provided for existing users on Supporters to migrate to the new Pro Sites.
One of the most pertinent query about Pro Sites I'm having is ... Discount Code is in right?
Question on payments... Im messing around in the sandbox some trying to get things ready and while it looks like I can take payments... and they can cancel, when I go into look at their subscriptions I see this:
The Subscription Has Been Cancelled in PayPal
They should continue to have access until December 13, 2011.
PayPal Profile ID: I-FJBTPPDJML67
Last Payment Date: October 12, 2011
Last Payment Amount: $15.00
Last Payment Transaction ID: 0HE54281DL460383V
Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_profile_id() in /home/eze/public_html/wp-content/plugins/pro-sites/pro-sites-files/gateways/gateway-paypal-express-pro.php on line 441
Any idea what that error is? Im not sure how I caused it honestly
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Hey guys, really i'm just waiting on sorting out our multidb compatibility problem before final release. We did alot of troubleshooting on that last night. In the meantime, here is RC2 which fixes at least the particularly nasty bugs above. Thanks for your patience!
I would like to try using this plugin, but first a couple of questions..
1. "Single payments are no longer supported, only subscriptions now (I may add them back later)"
Are you supporting the Paypal Enhanced Recurring Payment which is less expensive that PayPal Pro? I don't have PayPal Pro, so will I need to either upgrade to Paypal Pro or the users will need a PayPal account to do a subscription?
2. Is the Supporter WRITE plugin included as part of this?
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13th October 2011 (7 months ago)
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1. From my research Paypal Enhanced Recurring Payments will not work with express checkout API, you have to use those PayPal buttons. So no, if you don't want to require a paypal account you will need to use Pro ($30 vs $20 a month).
2. Yes, with much more power! There are actually 3 module, limit publishing, post quotas, and pay to blog.
I have a question for ya... what advertising plugin do you recommend we use... supporter adds wont work with prosites from what Ive seen. Id like to for all non prosites to have adsense or some other sort of adds on their sites.
Thanks for the RC2 release. I was precisely finding one of these nasty bugs when I received your post... ;-)
I don't think you've added the log for the coupon codes, have you? Do you plan to add it for the final release? I just need to know if I build something on my side or if I just wait for the release.
extended my site and got this in log, I did click on Permanent
2011-10-13 9:14:25 pm Pro Site status expiration permanently extended.
then checked site got this message
This blog is temporarily disabled until payment is received. Please check back later.
Beside needing to change blog to the word site it didn't work.
I signup for a new blog through BuddyPress, no Pro-Sites option at signup, so a free blog. Now I upgrade to a Pro-Sites level that has Premium Plugins and an increased upload quota. Checkout page, PayPal payment, confirmation page, email received, upload quota increased, everything works fine. But: my Premium Plugins are not activated!
So I tracked the code, and my guess is the 'auto_update' function is only called on upgrade (modify) not on create, is it? Or I missed something, but anyway, the Premium Plugins are not activated in this scenario.
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Ok guys, RC3
-integrated supporter ads plugin
-fixes the nasty double extending on initial paypal checkouts.
-prevent coupons being used 2 times on a blog
My issue with using PayPal Pro involves data security for credit card transactions:
"With Website Payments Standard, PayPal handles the payment card information for you. Because Website Payments Pro lets you accept payments directly on your site, you have to comply with data protection standards yourself."
Not including the existing Supporter Gateway seems like a compatability issue when this replaces Supporter.
I tested the coupon restriction. What's been implemented works fine so far. But, in my mind, a given coupon may not only be used twice on the same blog as presently coded, but also any other coupon should not be used at all once a previous one has already been used on that blog. I think it's the only thing that makes sense since the first payment is the only one that's not recurring, isn't it?
If I'm missing something, at least let it be extended with something like this (line 1113 of pro-sites.php):
if (is_array($used) && apply_filters('psts_used_coupon', in_array($coupon_code, $used), $coupon_code, $used, $blog_id))
On the coupons I know you said itll be awhile till you can give a lifetime coupon like 15% off for life... howabout the uses part of the coupon system thats already implemented? if I were to say ... 500 uses on a coupon would that gives 30 dollars off with no expiration... would the 500 ppl then have that coupon for the life of their account and allow me to raise prices after the 'introductory' period without it lookin like im raisin prices lol.
It may be just me but it looks like the latest fix for the 'double extending' has removed the normal extending of the subscription for recurring payments.
Looks like it needs something like:
if ($_POST['txn_type'] == 'recurring_payment')
$psts->extend($blog_id, $period, 'PayPal Express/Pro', $level, $_POST['mc_gross']);
somewhere within the case 'Completed': case 'Processed': switch block.
Make sure you subscribe to it for the release announcement next week. Thank you so much for your invaluable testing, i'll be looking back and awarding rep points to some of you!
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Member — 9th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Hi Aaron - Does 7 work with Multi-DB?
Thanks!
Lead Developer — 9th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
I havn't changed anything in that regard. Still waiting for our multidb dev to figure it out, he's been on break.
Member — 9th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Thx.
Upload by deactivating Pro Sites and writing over V7?
Member — 9th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Thanks for the update. Can't wait to get this thing working with Multi-DB.
Member — 9th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Loaded up 7, confirmed it's still have trouble with adding sites in multi-db environment. "Error establishing a database connection".
Member — 9th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Hey Aaron, I got the following error with 7:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class ProSites_Module_XMLRPC in /home/user/public_html/wp-content/plugins/pro-sites/pro-sites-files/modules/xmlrpc.php on line 5
update I got the error when uploading 7 over 6 via ftp. I deleted the entire directory and then uploaded the .zip via wp-admin and everything seems a-okay now.
Member — 9th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
I reinstalled Wordpress and started installing plugins again and instead of ussing supporter decided to jump on Pro Blogs I was configuring Beta 6 then beta 7 came out and Downloaded the new beta7 and disabled beta 6 then uploaded the plug in over 6. Went to activate it and got a White screen can't access site now. Then got (You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page..) while going back and forth trying to regroup. Logged out deleted plugin now logged back in. re-uploaded Beta 7.
It worked this time.
Lead Developer — 9th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Whoops, forgot to warn you to delete the old one first, some files were renamed so you can't just overwrite.
Member — 9th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
10-4 everything is kosher again
Member — 9th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
I Figured So, That's why I deleted it and tried again. Trying to figure out the plug in its a lot different then Supporter. I have to install it on a test site and play before doing something wrong on main site.
But what I see so far it looks Great
Member — 10th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
invalid link in the plugin description page
Pro Sites (Formerly Supporter)
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/pro-sites
link does not work yet. Since its nearing production release, new instruction documentation posted there would be cool !
I am referring to a couple of random forum threads to install it correctly.
Thanks for the loads of beta testing !
Cheers
Johnny
Member — 10th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
This plugin is shaping up nicely, I am installing it for a customer and thought the blog selection could use a better interface so I did a blog selection drop down, this is the code (starts at line 1646 in pro-sites.php, this code replaces the text box where you manually had to enter the blog id that was there before.
Perhaps the query should select from public and non-public blogs?
I hope it (or some variant of) can make it into the plugin.
Member — 10th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Hi @KFUK-KFUM
Just a thought...
How would this perform for very larger networks? Would that require a fancy ajax version to be more practical?
Are you listing the ID their or the name of the site? If it's the ID you still need to know the id of the site in relation to the customer to be particularly useful so maybe a search by email address to find all blogs registered to that address then select them by name.
Your thoughts?
Member — 10th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
What are your definition of very large? Creating fifty blogs with a total oct over 16k posts and a database filled with over 100k rows of metadata produced zero visible delay in this function versus three blogs. The site, when ready, will serve 400-1000 blogs.
The query only hits one table and will be unlikely to produce more than 100 bytes of data per row (for example: 4 bytes for the ID, 50 bytes for the domain, 46 bytes for the path). 1000 rows would therefore be about 100kByte, not too much memory.
Let's say it takes 0.5 seconds for a large query for 1000 blogs to complete, it is till only a fraction of the minute the administrator must spend to find the blog in the listing, hover over the link to get the id# and then return to the input and enter said id# into the text field. I would say that with this the time used to select the correct blog will be less than 1/50th the time compared to the old way.
Another part of the analysis is that this function is only used when the admin visits the select blog page, therefore the need for a super-optimized version will not be necessary.
As you can see when you look at the code I list both the ID, the domain (for subdomain installs) and path (for subfolder installs). The code can be easily extended to also show the name of the blog using get_blog_details.
Member — 10th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
I was thinking more like tens of thousands to 100,000 sites. (Edublogs for example is over a million blogs) I will be offering free sites and I have a list over 3000 opt in users that will likely become immediate users. Then there's an online marketing campaign will likely add many more users very quickly. I'll do the math and make a judgement call based on the numbers you've provided. I'll give your code a spin... thanks for sharing by the way :-)
Lead Developer — 10th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Thanks for sharing, but as said it's not scalable. We don't do anything thy can't be scaled in multisite. This plugin is going up on edublogs and a dropdown with 1mill+ blogs woul crash your browser. Actually you shouldn't really have any dropdown with more than a few hundred items in HTML.
Member — 10th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
How do you manage that number in Wordpress? We are testing WPMU on Amazon and are starting to see obvious slowdowns and memory problems and scaling problems on standard wordpress installations when reaching 100+ blog.
Member — 10th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
You'll need multi-db plugin set up to scale that big. At the moment this plugin won't work with multi-db.
Member — 10th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Thanks troykd, but will it support multi-db? Seems a bit wrong to dismiss a 50-fold increase in productivity for network admins (also, remember that this solution avoids all the other queries required to the database(s) when the admin is opening page after page browsing for the right blog) when the reason for that is not achievable anyway, no?
Member — 10th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
How is this a pro sites issue? Sounds like it's a multi site admin issue not a pro sites one. Might try to find a plugin with what you need. Did you look at directory or global site search plugins?
Member — 10th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Never claimed it was a Pro Site issue, sorry if I led you to believe such a thing.
Lifetime member! — 10th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Does Pro Sites include a Supporter check like the previous version of Supporter did? If so, what's the syntax for using it?
I'd like to do things like create a Dashboard widget that appears to non-Supporters (encouraging them to upgrade).
Thanks,
Mark
Member — 11th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Are you referring to that nifty is_supporter thingy? I was just wondering about that myself. I'd like force a plugin to be activated once the site is no longer a Pro Site. Ideas are appreciated...
Member — 11th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Sorry if this is obvious but with the adds module... where do you put in the info for the advertisements free blogs see?
Lifetime member! — 11th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Yep! :-)
Lead Developer — 11th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
is_pro_site($blog_id=false, $level=1)is_supporter will still work too, just won't returns true for any level.
Member — 11th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Then I'm perplexed on why you didn't start another thread instead of using the ProSites Beta thread which is completely unrelated.
Member — 11th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@KFUK-KFUM you are welcome to post those feature suggestions as you did. There are several suggestions on this thread so that's okay. You're original post was in fact a feature suggestion/request and you even were kind enough to share your code. I appreciated that.
But what we learned from that suggestion took us on the sidebar but that's totally understandable. We were attempting to answer the question of why your feature can't be included in an official release. I see no harm here.
also @KFUK-KFUM... I would start a thread at this point in the appropriate forum about how to scale your site up with multiDB and possibly even info on caching and CloudFlare technology. Sounds like you need that info.
Cheers!
Member — 11th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
k unless im completely blind... which is possible... there is no place to put add info into the beta so Im guessing that module isint complete or im just messin up somewhere
Member — 11th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Because I was perplexed by the argument (and wanted to reply to the post in this thread) that Pro Sites need to scale to millions of blogs while at the same time it does not support multi-db, which is essential for a Wordpress site to scale. It makes not sense to me.
Member — 11th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@KFUK: I understand the confusion. This plugin will work with multi-db, but the developer who works on that plugin has been away and will need to look at the problems.
Member — 12th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
I'm trying to enter a URL for a user to Upgrade Via Command line http://domain.com/pro-site/?bid=1 that will bring site 1 (Main Blog to upgrade page) how do I pass the SITE_ID to the URL
Also I have a link on top of the main blog when I go into Site Admin that says
You have 14 days left in your Pro free trial. Checkout now to prevent loosing Pro features »
What happens to the main Blog after 14 days will I get locked out? Can I ignore it?
I also have a problem with the Domain Mapping Plug in
It will not except the url for the domain.
And by the way this is on a Totally New install
Lead Developer — 12th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
That's strange, how did you get the main blog into a trial? The main site always is a pro site.
Lead Developer — 12th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
In other plugins you can link to the checkout page like this:
Where you pass it the blogid.
Member — 12th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
I want to put it in a Page and a post to link to a payment page
How No Idea?
theres the easy way of doing things and the hard way I always end up with the hard way it always takes me 3 extra steps to get anything correct I have no luck :>
checked chrome same message
Member — 12th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
On my install it is possible to assign the primary site to a level. I never did because I noticed that as Super Admin none of the limitations apply to me anyway.
Hi @LCDist ...
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/ad-sharing
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/who-sees-ads-for-wpmu
Member — 12th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Where do I set the From: address for the system messages sent by this plugin? (Welcome, payment receipts, etc.)
It doesn't use the network setting as the supporter plugin did, but a "WordPress <wordpress@mydomain.com>" address, which I don't have anywhere in my config... i don't know where it came from.
Lead Developer — 12th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Do you have BuddyPress installed? That wipes out the network from setting for all emails, stupid I know.
Member — 12th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
I've also seen what seems like a bug in the PayPal payment procedure... when signing up via PayPal express, the initial signup and payment info is received immediately in the payment call, giving the user the level immediately. But then, a minute later, comes the IPN call... which initiates the payment receipt to be sent, but also extends the pro site level another period - giving the user twice the time he paid for.
Later recurring payments still comes on time, of course, but if the customer cancels he will keep the pro site level he has for one period longer than paid for.
(For example, a test user signed up for level 1 today, and then it said on the account page that even if cancelled the blog would continue to have the level 1 features until October 11, 2011... a minute later the IPN call comes, and it then says November 11, 2011.)
Member — 12th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
No, no buddypress installed, never had it...
I had Supporter, but hadn't lauched the site yet, so I uninstalled it and are testing this instead...
The Network settings are still correct, just checked.
(To clarify; When testing supporter, the info was correct. I uninstalled supporter and installed pro sites - then the info was incorrect.)
Member — 13th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@Aaron
I just realized what might have happened.
I was checking out the link to pay for the Blog and went to paypal to see if it was working as it should But I did not pay. I saw what poohnix above wrote and it dawned on me maybe by doing what I did it didn't get paid and the opposite happened to me it took it away?
Now the question is how do I fix it, with out having to give myself pro every year :< ?
Member — 13th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
n2rga: Did it work with pro sites uninstalled? It doesn't install like most plugins.
Member — 13th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Hi @n2rga...
You can remove the Pro privileges altogether and you'll be back were you started. Super Admin's don't need Pro Site privileges so the primary site isn't on a Pro plan at all. As Super Admin you see everything that's hidden to the rest of the network anyway.
Member — 13th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
I have Pro Sites V7 set to auto activate membership plugin but only the Super Admin gets to see the plugin activated in the admin dashboard. The site admin can't see it activated.
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/sub-site-admin-cant-see-membership
Member — 13th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@wecreateyou
OK good thanks
@troykd
Thats a good question I tried after it was installed and I went to do my first personal site to test the signup then domain mapping I will try disabling it now
EDITED:
I disabled Pro sites and the domain mapping still didn't work.
I even moved the sunshine on statement in wp-config.php up above networking statements and disabled domain mapping and then enabled it by deleting the files and then reloading the site then re-uploading it. Still didn't work.
Member — 13th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
I never heard back about the map post limits for this plugin ... is this planned? I really need it for a site I'm about to launch.
Lead Developer — 13th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
You mean per level? I don't have time to implement it right now.
Member — 14th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
N2: If it was me, I'd start a thread on the Domain Mapping plugin.
Member — 14th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
I manually upgraded a Blog to Permanent Pro Site and when I went back to the blog logged out then in it still had
You have 12 days left in your Pro free trial. Checkout now to prevent loosing Pro features » on top.and You account Link takes me to the payment page
Lead Developer — 14th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Whoops, good catch! Wasn't filtering to the current blog so it would return the trial for any blog on all blogs if trials are enabled.
Member — 16th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Any idea when the multi-db developer gets back to fix the prosites integration?
Member — 17th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Hello,
I have renewed my Membership here 2 days ago and I have just installed beta version of Pro Sites and I am quite surprised with it's functionality :O This isn't just new version of Supporter, this is whole new plugin and thanks for this amazing work!
I'll report bugs if I find any.
* UPDATE - Coupons - Adding form. When I am selecting date a calendar appears, but weeks and months names are in Japanese or Chinese or something.
Thanks,
Kote
Member — 17th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
* UPDATE - Plugin is still in beta, so please add only one currency in it - Georgian Lari (GEL). I asked same about MarketPress and it's OK if GEL will be built-in in following version, but as to Pro Sites, please add before releasing full version.
* UPDATE - Plugin creates page called "Pro Site", when I am opening that page it says "Please choose a blog to Upgrade or Modify", could you rename blog to sites (as you do everywhere)?
* UPDATE - wp-admin/network/admin.php?page=psts-settings - sites are called "blogs" almost everywhere (especially in descriptions of specific options).
* UPDATE - This blog is temporarily disabled until payment is received. Please check back later. - I think you know where this message is shown, but this isn't important. It's another name "blog" related issue - I believe "blog" is mentioned in many other places instead of "site", so I think you will take a look about it before releasing full version.
Thanks a lot,
Kote
Member — 17th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
* UPDATE - Suggestion, there is Premium Themes tab in Appearance menu, but there isn't Premium Plugins tab in Plugins menu, why shouldn't it be?
Member — 17th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@kshengelia I sees a Premium Plugins menu item. Maybe there's a setting you can change.
Member — 17th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
I have an issue with the Pro Sites settings page... Every time the settings are saved, backslashes are added for any quotes and such in the text boxes, and not stripped when shown again... so for every save more backslashes are added, unless I remove them in every text box before saving.
I've bypassed it by using curly quotes in text (for emails and such), but can't do it for html code...
Member — 17th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Yes, that's an issue I've noticed as well.
Member — 18th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Can't wait for the stable release of this, thank you! and nice job, it's very exciting!
Member — 18th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Found a new odd error for ya today....
I ended up narrowing my site down to a fresh wordpress install with the default theme just to test things... so its definitly a bad interaction between the 2 plugins
The new bbpress plugin coming out has issues with prosites... at least on the main sites page... I honestly have no clue how this worked so Ill just tell you everything I observed.
I installed wordpress followed by prosites...in which Im getting no Pro Upgrade or Pro Sites button in my dashboard for my site admin of the main site.... but I do in my secondary test site... not sure if its normal not to have one in the main site but every time I reinstalled pro looked the same so I am assuming thats normal.
Anyway I then installed bbpress plugin, I know its in beta also but I figure its best to catch these bugs early instead of after release.
On the primary network site, bbpress appears to work fine, you can make forums and categories however if you set a forum as belonging to a parent category you get an error saying the webpage dosent exist.
On the secondary test site on the same multisite wordpress with the same admin user, I turned on bbpress on that site and tried teh same thing, I could access all the forums as well as sub forums.
Now I have absoultly know idea how this error could be but Im no expert... I wont be messin with that test site again tonight so Ill leave the forums as is and link em here... when I wake up all bets are off on if they will still exist but for now here are the links:
main network sites forums: http://lchosts.com/forums/
sub forum that wont work: http://lchosts.com/forums/forum/testing/testing2/
forum in main dir: http://lchosts.com/forums/forum/main-dir/
secondary test sites info:
forums: http://test.lchosts.com/forums/
sub category that works fine: http://test.lchosts.com/forums/forum/test/testing/
main dir: http://test.lchosts.com/forums/forum/main/
Neither site above was upgraded in problogs and the bbpress plugin plugin itself was not network activated, it was activated on a site by site basis the admin user.
Sorry this post is so long but I wanted to try to get you enough info to diagnose whats goin on... hopefully some of what I found was usefull lol
Member — 19th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Is it possible to charge a setup fee in addition to the monthly fee in either paypal express or paypal pro? On my site, I actually send out a starter kit because I'm giving users more than a blog and I need to charge a setup fee.
Member — 20th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Agreed with nacke81. I want to do a setup/customization fee for doing an initial theme setup/customization to match their logo and then still have a recurring subscription going on after that for hosting and whatever plugin package they have subscribed to.
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Additional thought to get around this: this could potentially be remedied by forcing user registration sign-up cost and then they sign-up for a specific "hosting" plan or whatever. Would still be more useful to have it all integrated into one easy user flow though.
Member — 20th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
One thing that would be nice, (an not only in this plugin, but others where users are paying, like the membership plugin), would be to have the ability to use more than one currency.
Now I have to set up different sites depending on audience... most of my services are geared both towards US/international, (where USD is fine), and Europe and UK, where I would prefer to be able to offer EUR and GBP pricing.
Member — 20th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Where this would be preferable, we have got used to dealng in USD online rather than GBP.
Member — 20th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Well, in some cases, yes.
But the users by far prefer to use their local currency, if at all possible. (When given a choice, most even use their own currency even though it's consistently more expensive in the pricing we use, than paying in USD.)
My business is UK based, but the users are about 20% UK, 30% Europe, 45% US, 5% rest of the world.
Member — 20th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Yeah, I would agree with this. For example, I have my Godaddy account set to GBP.
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Out of curiosity, when ProSites goes live, will the Easy Blog plugin be updated to go to the proper page when someone clicks "Supporter" in the Easy Admin section?
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
I would like to see an update for easy blogs + pro blogs too.
:)
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Hi!
This plugin is looking very promising and one of the main reason of my membership :-)
More ore less everything runs fine abaprt from checking out with Paypal. Is this due to the beta release or a problem using it in Germany with € as currency?
Would it make sense to already start translating the plugin as there will only be minor changes in the GUI?
Thanks
TF
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
RELEASE it PLEAAAAASE :)
This topic is already very passive (1-2 days goes so that no new reply is posted), this means bugs are fixed and there isn't any problems I think.
Folks, what do you think?
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@kshengelia I do feel your enthusiasm, I absolutely love this plugin!
But having said that... I'm sure there's a really good reason we're still in beta and I'd rather be a bit more patient considering how many moving parts this plugin has and how many other plugins are being integrated with Pro Sites support.
If it's stable enough for your setup then use it in production, but I always trust the developer's call on this one. It's what you don't know that can hurt you.
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@khengelia - I think it should be released with full support for Multi-DB environments.
I understand that the devs behind Multi-DB still have to sort out some very important issues.
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Absolutely. Edublogs runs on multi-db so it's pretty important for them to get it right for the guy that signs the paychecks. The frustrating part is not having a timeframe. They say the developer is on break. Seems like a pretty long break since the multi-db issue goes back almost 2 months.
If you have subscribers, the goal is to get big enough to need multi-db so it's got to be a critical plugin to work with pro sites.
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@megakrav, @wecreateyou,
Yes, I perfectly realize your reasons why it should be in beta, but what if it is released now, and then it will be integrated with different plugins as an update. I mean, I, myself don't use MultiDB, so users like me are waiting for integrating this plugin with MultiDB in order to use this plugin without MultiDB, it's pretty funny :)
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
It may not be just multi-db. The Google +1 plugin didn't work with pro sites either. This is going back to Beta1 but I had to rename my plugin directory to get back to the admin panel. I haven't seen anyone say it works together now.
The silence from the Dev team though is deafening.
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@troykd - Interesting you mention the "silence from the dev team" - they just released a big update for MultiDB (3.0.7) - it now has backend administration options which I have network installed but been unable to access.
So now I'm thinking that the MultiDB Dev may finally be back - hopefully Prosites-MultiDB integration is next.
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Aaron says at the top of this thread a week ago...
So it won't be too much longer anyhow :-)
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Thanks, I hadn't seen that. Maybe we are making progress!
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Anybody have success auto activating Membership plugin with Pro-Sites? I have the setting checked off in pro-sites but it doesn't seem to work.
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Cont'd...Where the sub sites can set up there own membership site
Lead Developer — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Yes we will be updating all other plugins that have hooks into Supporter, though most should be backwards compatible without a problem.
Actually we just pushed out 3.0.7, can any of you guys who have multidb test with Pro Sites please? We're hoping it fixes the issue, but the real delay in this is we've never been able to recreate the issue in all 3 of our multidb test sites. Theres been alot of changes since beta1, I doubt it's an issue still (and was never confirmed bug originally). I've been working on it almost every day actually. But i've already recommended to go ahead with this in new installs, it's definitely ready. The main holdup is confirming the multidb issues are fixed, so anyone who can test that will be a huge help!Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
I have to say that I have tested it and found none of bugs (except several, posted above), but thing is I am not able to test
1) How it works with MultiDB - as I am running live network and I am not going to use MultiDB (as I am not going to get that big)
2) Check-out process as PayPal isn't available here.
Everything rest works fine..
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Thx. I have tried and tried and cannot get Membership to auto activate for a sub site admin. Only the super admin can see it.
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Anyway, I was going to post a question about bbPress. You know, bbPress 2.0 finally came out as plugin and I am interested how it goes with Pro Sites - is it able sub-sites of network to have bbPress installed? It's kind of bbPress related question too (itself supports network-wide activation or not), but I'll test how it goes with Pro Sites plugin and will notify you.
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Everything seems to be working fine except some of the bugs mentioned here. The biggest one that is staring me in the face is the free trial expiration notification for sites that have already upgraded to a paying site and should't see that warning.
I'm trying to get my site integrated with paypal express right now, and then upgrading to paypal pro shortly. Since I can't charge a setup fee in addition to the monthly fee, I'm having do the initial payment a little differently until I can make the adjustments to integrate a setup fee.
I'm planning on accepting payments starting Friday and launching in beta until I get all of these issues resolved, which means setup won't be automated for new customers, but at least I'll be able to do some real testing with the paypal integration.
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@Aaron
Tested with MultiDB 3.0.7 and Prosites Beta 7 with 265 and 4096 configs
Findings:
1. Sites can now be created using admin panel and wp-signup.php (awesome)
2. Blog template works when creating a default site (awesome)
3. No more issues pertaining to being unable to save changes to prosite settings, prior issue of having settings erases is no longer happening (awesome)
4. Checking network performance settings - old multidb 3.0.6 with problogs 7 - 17 seconds of loading time - new multidb 3.0.7 with prosites 7 0.58 seconds(awesome)
5. Checking mod_fcgid logs ---> no more resource errors! (awesome)
Lead Developer — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Awesome! ;-)
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
My respects to @magakrav =]
Aaron, does Pro Sites support easy integration of custom payment gateways? (I mean easy like MarketPress).
Lead Developer — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Yes, gateways are fully modular.
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@Aaron - with these recent developments, do you think that the Beta 7 is now stable enough (pending the production version) to be deployed on the production servers? I'm still testing and none of the old issues/problems are there anymore
@kshengelia - I think this is what you have been asking about ;) its seems ready for MultiDB
Lead Developer — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Yes.
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Crossing fingers.
Deploying in 2 production sites tonight. Will report findings.
Member — 21st September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@magakrav Great work on the testing there! :)
Member — 22nd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@georgef
Much much more testing needed though! So far so good, after 2 hours of testing.
Member — 22nd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Sounds like a pro-sites release is imminent !
Thanks for all the testing !
Johnny
Member — 22nd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Now buddypress 1.5 is out I take it all wpmudev plugins (including pro sites) will be compatible?
Cheers
Johnny
Member — 22nd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Are you planning on releasing an 8th beta soon? Or, if we're going to use a beta in production, should we use the 7th?
Member — 22nd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
I've been testing the signup process and integrated with Paypal Express in the sandbox and I'm having a few difficulties.
During the signup process at wp-signup.php, I can't figure out how to get someone to actually go to paypal to pay. The new site can be set up perfectly, but I figured it would work like this
=> Page 1 - Username, email, pass ... click next
=> Page 2 - Site Name, Site Title, Site Description (using description plugin) ... click signup
=> Page 3 - Choose your subscription type (Free, Plus, Pro, Etc)
=> Page 4 - Goes to paypal to checkout
But I can't figure out how to give them a subscription option during signup to get them to paypal. The site automatically sets up as a free trial.
And here's another weird thing...
After I click the activation link in my email, I get a message that says "Success ... you can now visit your site or login" ... but when I click those links I get an error message that says "This site is temporarily disabled until payment is received. Please check back later. Re-enable now »"
So it seems like during signup, users are automatically assigned to a free trial and then, when they try to login to start using their free trial, it says "they need to pay" ... so it seems like the free trial option isn't working.
Any ideas? Has anyone else run into this problem?
Member — 22nd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Hi.
More specifically, which ones among the following have already been deemed compatible with Pro Sites and which ones will need an update?
- Domain Mapping
- Affiliates
- Supporter Advertising
- Multisite Analytics
Thanks.
Lead Developer — 22nd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
If you want a free trial you need to configure it.
Member — 22nd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Thanks Aaron ... I was clicking the link that said "view your site" instead of the link that says "log in". By choosing "log in" to the dashboard, the warning notification never shows up and it works perfectly, redirecting to the subscription selection page. Very nice!
I just removed the "view your site" link after signup because it would probably be confusing to new members.
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
With the pro sites if a subscriber cancels their paypal auto payment for their pro site, will this plugin auto turn ads on the subscriber's website after the payment due date?
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Well, I went ahead and started to install beta 7 on our production system. I ran into a few bugs. The first is that quotes in the settings messages are double-escaped. So, if I set up one of my emails to include a quotation mark, next time I load the settings page, I see \" instead of ". Rather than digging into it, I just killed all the contractions in my messages.
The second was a bug I had to fix. Around line 2367 I changed it to:
if ( isset($_GET['code']) || $error ) {
?><option value="<?php echo $key; ?>"<?php selected(@$coupons[$new_coupon_code]['level'], $key) ?>><?php echo $key . ': ' . $value['name']; ?></option><?php
} else {
?><option value="<?php echo $key; ?>"><?php echo $key . ': ' . $value['name']; ?></option><?php
}
There was an issue with using the selected() function on an array that I'm assuming (by the @ usage) doesn't always exist. Putting that in a condition has fixed the problem so far.
Lifetime Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Feature request:Will the stable version support 2co payment system?
Is there any way to add pro-sites this module?
Thanks.
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Hi,
I already took the risk starting to translate the plugin as I don't expect too many changes from the UI.
This is just to inform you, that there are many parts in the admin area that are translated, but not shown in the final language.
Bests
T
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Did anyone figure out what to do about the free trial expiration notice at the top of the admin dashboard? All new users on my install have a notice that says "you have 6 days left" on a ten day free trial. I assume it's because my first trial user started 4 days ago.
Are you just disabling this notice altogether?
Lead Developer — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
I'll fix those.
We plan to add other gateways soon, not in this initial release though. Make sure you update your .po file. Theres alot of changes going on still.Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
There are a bunch of places in the PayPal gateway that still use the word "Blog" rather that "Site".
Also, how difficult would it be to add an option to coupons so that you could choose whether they affect the first payment only, or all payments?
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
There is an issue with enabling premium themes on any subdomain blog.
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/wp-admin/admin-header.php:34) in /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 934
Is there anybody else experiencing this?
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
I just noticed the "blog" mention after someone subscribes. It shows up on my site after a payment has been successful made ... it says "Your PayPal subscription modification was successful for ..."
Thank your for subscribing to ...
Visit your newly upgraded blog »
Chris M. - Did you figure out where this is to change it? I'm going to have to get that fixed today too.
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@Chris M.
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/pro-sites-supporter-30-beta-7-release#post-132529 There are many, many "blogs" instead of "site" in current interface :)
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Something else worth mentioning ... if you set your accounts up with monthly/quarterly/annual payments and are offering a free trial, the checkout page will show all three options for the free trial. This doesn't really make sense to offer an annual $0 payment for a limited time free trial.
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
If there are to many 'blogs' mentioned I recommend to 'translate' it with a tool such as Poedit or the plugin CodeStyling Localization: http://www.code-styling.de/deutsch/entwicklungen/wordpress-plugin-codestyling-localization
Bests
T
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@Thorstend, yes that is the way I used in recent version of Pro Sites called "Supporter", but if Pro Blogs are changed to Pro Sites, why not translate "blogs" to "sites" everywhere (in core and not with PoEdit)? I think this it would be translated for full release.
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@kshengelia certainly. It was just a quick and dirty solution for those who can't wait :-)
Lead Developer — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Ok guys, here is Release Candidate 1:
Fixes all reported minor bugs, as well as all the "blog" texts still in there. Also updated the default po file.
I think it's ready for production, plan to make it "official" next week sometime.
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Very cool Aaron. I'm going to start testing everything now.
I already noticed one strange thing. I'm testing Paypal Express right now in the sandbox and after choosing a paid subscription and then returning to the site (by the way, noticed you removed blog here ... nice) ... when I go back to the dashboard, it still shows the trial notification at the top.
Is this just because I'm in the sandbox? Will this stop showing if I turn paypal to live?
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
pro-sites-3.0-RC-1.zip solves Premium Themes activation issue, backslashes still appear when quotes are inserted into html or visual editor
Lead Developer — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
What html/visual editor?
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Where can I add/configure the ads that I want to get displayed on free users websites with the Pro sites?
I did not see where to add the ads, and/or how to get the ads displayed on the free users themes or site content.
Please, help.
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
When creating FAQ from the http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/support-system plugin putting double and single quotes results in backslashes inserted into the code when changes are saved
No longer happening on the settings page of Prosites 3.0 RC1 - I use to happen with Beta 7 version
Lead Developer — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Thats a different plugin entirely, please start a new thread for that.
Ads are handled by our other plugins, like http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/supporter-advertising
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@Aaron Thanks.
So, http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/supporter-advertising will work with Pro sites?
Lead Developer — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Yes, though I will probably be integrating that plugin directly into Pro Sites Ads module later, as it's a bit confusing for them to be separate.
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Yes that will be better... because as a new user I got lost with the Pro Sites Ads module, not knowing where to add the ads.
Member — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
There's a bug in the trial_notice function. Currently it gets $expire by:
$expire = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT expire FROM {$wpdb->base_prefix}pro_sites WHERE gateway = 'Trial' AND expire >= '" . time() . "'");
Notice anything missing? I stared at that function for 20 minutes before I realized that it's not passing $blog_id to the SQL query, so it's ALWAYS getting an expiration as long as there's one or more active Trial accounts. The query needs a
blog_id = $blog_idadded.Lead Developer — 23rd September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Yes, that was fixed in the last version.
I'll fix that in the next version. When in a trial period PayPal gateway was delaying the first payment until the trial was up, so the trial flag for gateway was not getting set to PayPal on checkout.
Member — 24th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
So should we still not be able to use the supporter advertising plugin? when I go to enable it it tells me that I need to enable the module first... and yes before you ask... the module was enabled lol
Member — 24th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Hello,
Do I need to delete addons or supporter or membership plugins prior to installing pro-sites?
(Sorry if this is a repeat question - I couldn't find the answer is a forum search)
Michael
Lifetime member! — 24th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Well, waiting for that with great impatience ! :) :) :)
Works fine for me, exploring great functionnalities. Good job !
Well, may I insist on the "insert ads code" thing we have discussed some times and the problem on the auto excerpt use on many themes that shows ads code instead of ads generally on main pages or archeve pages.
Pay attention to that, because that mean almost 40% of the themes in farm pack and some (as buddyperss business or social) are NOT usable as free themes with ads on a multisite.
Bravo !
:)
PS : hum.... well... so... how can i say... mmmmm....and.... what about the moneybooker thing ?
/me whistling, looking at the ceiling
Lifetime member! — 24th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
oups...
May I suggest to display the theme thumb in theme selector by level ? That would be just... usefull !
:)
Member — 25th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
This isn't a major thing, but figured I'd let you know.
The free trial message says:
You have DAYS days left in your LEVEL free trial. Checkout now to prevent loosing LEVEL features »
You'll notice the typo there 'loosing' instead of 'losing'.
Member — 25th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Is there a way to change the order of the levels shown on the upgrade page?
I added them in order, but they are showing up in reverse order on the page, so the highest priced is at the top and the lowest on the bottom, but I want them to show the other way.
Member — 25th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
With Pro Sites, is it possible to have a level, where all sites created on by the user on that level will automatically be pro?
Member — 25th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
If someone buys an upgraded level, will all of the sites they've created (as a user) be upgraded or just one? If multiple, can it be forced to just one? Thanks, sorry if this has been covered before.
Member — 25th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@ troykd: It is just one site that they upgrade. When they go to the upgrade page, they select the site they want to upgrade.
Member — 25th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
+1
Member — 25th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Is there a section for bulk upgrades? I can't seem to see it anywhere.
Member — 25th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@Joe
Is there a way to change the order of the levels shown on the upgrade page?
I added them in order, but they are showing up in reverse order on the page, so the highest priced is at the top and the lowest on the bottom, but I want them to show the other way.
---
Add this to your wp-config.php file - it reverses the order of the packages
//this is for Prosites
define('PSTS_DONT_REVERSE_LEVELS', true);
Member — 25th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Thanks magakrav, that did the job perfectly.
I've awarded a few rep points as a thank you.
Member — 25th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
It's ok, I was blind, I've seen the bulk upgrades section now, but is it possible to select different bulk packages for each level, or just a single level?
Member — 25th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
@Joe Welcome and many thanks for the points!
Member — 26th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Any idea if RC1 is auto upgradable to the full release?
I do not have a Multi Site demo site to install on so i was gonna chance it on production.
It would be good to know if this is easily auto upgradable.
Cheers
Johnny
Member — 26th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Hello
Will this plugin feature some sort of translation or will I have to translate the pluginfiles myself?
Best regards
Member — 26th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
I have some minor cosmetic improvements to the Pro Sites Levels screen I would like to see. One is adding a class to the button to make it a proper Wordpress button and the other is a fix for a nicer line height by wrapping the currency abbreviation in a label element.
Lifetime Member — 27th September 2011 (8 months ago) #
Hi all,
First of all Great work Aaron. Still... I have an enhancement request.
Lets say We have 3 levels of ProSites. Pro1, Pro2, Pro3
When you want to edit a site having the Pro2 level and give some extra or ONLY some specific plugins to it, you go to the Site-> Edit-> scroll down to the plugins and there you find ALL the plugins that are NOT network activated.
The screen reads:
But it actually does NOT override the settings. It just adds the extra plugins you choose to the already existing ones permitted by the level the site is in. Meaning all the plugins for Anyone, plus all the plugins for Pro1, plus all for Pro2 plus the ones you choose. Correct?
I would expect it to ONLY allow the ones you choose. Is it possible to achieve this?
In both cases (adding some extra plugins or checking specific ones that override the Premium Settings) it would be very helpful to have an extra field next to the plugins' name showing their minimum Pro Site level, picked up from the Premium Plugins screen:
Akismet Anyone
Hello Dolly None
Lightbox Pro1
MarketPress Pro2 and so on...
The same applies for the Pro Themes as well.
What does everyone else thinks?
Any +1 on the subject?
Member — 27th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
The free trial is a great idea, unfortunately it's not working on my day old install.
I enable the free trial and set the level. Log out and when I come back, it's back on disable and the first level. Plugins activated are prosites, multi-db, domain mapping, WPMU DEV Update Notifications.
Thanks
Member — 27th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
The free trial seems to be working on my install. But I'm not using muti-db or domain mapping.
Here's a quick note about the paypal payments though.
I'm now using the plugin on a live site with live paypal express integration. Everything seems to be working except when someone upgrades from a free trial to a paid subscription, the date for their first payment in paypal is set for the day their trial ends. Not a huge deal, but it would be nice to get the money right away.
I guess that's why the free trial expiration notification that counts down the days still shows up at the top of the screen after upgrading.
Lead Developer — 27th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Member — 27th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Pro Sites is all looking great now, thanks for all the hard work :o)
At some point, will a large number of the other plugins include some Pro Site code? It would be really good to have a variety of options built into the other plugins so that if a member has gone Pro, they will automatically be able to take advantage, such as the way Domain Mapping works.
Lead Developer — 27th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Yes, continually more. A large number already do though, such as:
New Blog Templates
Privacy Options
Google Analytics
MarketPress
Membership (will need updating)
Ads
Domain mapping
Easy Blogging
Maybe others...
Member — 27th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
@Aaron: is Affiliates already part of the list?
Thanks.
Member — 27th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
I was just thinking about how to incorporate an affiliate marketing program on my site too. Anyone know about this?
Lead Developer — 27th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Yes, Affiliates is automatically tied in with Pro Sites.
Member — 27th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
I understand but as Network Admin, when I set the prosite setting up for free trial, they don't stick. It goes back to disabled after I log out as network admin.
Lead Developer — 27th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
So the setting doesn't stay? When you log back in and visit the settings page it doesn't have the same days value?
Member — 27th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Correct. Set it, save it, log out and log in and it's gone.
Member — 27th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
I removed all supporter files from root, plugins, and mu plugins
there are a few plugins i want to add to see if they work with pro sites.
affiliates - i dont think pro sites has anything to do with this but i need something that will let me know who referred X and how much X paid - if i give affiliate 40% do i have to manually check X site to see if they paid monthly, quarterly, or yrly?
I was thinking i could give people coupon codes (pro-site) pro site does tell me how many times the coupon was used but it does not tell me what it was used for. so someone could use the code for monthly or yearly.
i also tried playing around with ad sharing and support advertising and when i try to install either of those the site errors out and says please install the support ads modual in mu-plugins.
after i do this i get a function call error saying i need to install supporter?
i think the pro-sites is a lot nicer than supporter but i really would like to do the following
1-show advertisments on non upgraded sites
2- set up an affiliate network so i know who referred x and how much x paid with out manually looking.
any input?
Member — 28th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
@thinkmarketact You need to also install the Affiliate plugin from WPMU Dev in order to do a lot of the things you mentioned. Once you do, you'll be able to see who referred whom by going to /wp-admin/index.php?page=affiliatesadmin
Member — 28th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Now after re uploading the supporter ads mu plugins file and then removing them i get the following error when i try to go to the main sites admin back end
network back end works fine
sub sites and sub site back end all work fine
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare supporter_show_ads() (previously declared in /home/sites/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins/supporter-ads.php:157) in /home/sites/public_html/wp-content/plugins/pro-sites/pro-sites-files/modules/ads.php on line 488
?
Member — 28th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
@troykd try this, worked for me
So the setting doesn't stay? When you log back in and visit the settings page it doesn't have the same days value?
Correct. Set it, save it, log out and log in and it's gone.
changed db-config values from
add_db_server('00', 'dc1', 1, 1,'','localhost', 'table_00', 'user', 'password');
add_db_server('00', 'dc1', 1, 1,'localhost','localhost', 'table_00', 'user', 'password');
And I was able to save settings and the activity of other users on their admin panels did not reset my settings.
Member — 28th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Thanks Magakrav. So it's a multi-db issue.
Aaron- can this be incorporated in an update in either plugin to resolve the error?
Member — 28th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hiya
I am just trying to follow,
How many outstanding issues do we have for pro sites?
Many thanks,
Johnny
Lead Developer — 28th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Troy, if you are continueing to have multidb issues lets continue that in your related thread.
Member — 28th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
So don't report plugin conflicts here huh? Doesn't sound like I'm alone with this problem. I'll start a thread for Multi-DB
Lead Developer — 28th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
I meant the thread we were already discussing in: http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/problem-with-problogs-beta-6-and-multi-db
Member — 29th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hi. Is there anywhere I can find a features list for the new version please? Have been looking and can't find one.
Thanks. Ab
Member — 29th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
It's listed under "other versions" on the main plugin page. All the versions and changelog is there.
For example:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/supporter-30-beta-release-help-us-test
EDIT: I just realized you're talking about ProSites http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/supporter-30-beta-release-help-us-test
Member — 29th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
@wecreateyou I can't see the 3.0beta there at all. I can see the changelog and latest versions, but nothing on the new 3.0 release.
Member — 29th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Is this what you need?
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/supporter-30-beta-release-help-us-test
Member — 29th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Perfect thank you :)
Member — 29th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Can the release candidate perform autoupdate for future releases?
Lead Developer — 29th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Yes, you will be notified.
Member — 29th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hi.
A little issue with the the URL of the checkout page. When there's another argument on the page request (like lang=fr in a multilingual environment for example), the URL is wrong (a second '?' instead of a '&' seperator).
I scanned 2 places in the code where it could be changed like this:
- pro-sites.php line 573:
$url = add_query_arg( array( 'bid' => $blog_id ), $url);- pro-sites.php line 3066:
[...] . add_query_arg( array( 'bid' => $blog_id, 'remove_coupon' => 1 ), get_permalink() ) ) . '</div>';Thanks.
Member — 30th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hi.
Does anyone have to deal with more than one currency with Pro-Sites? Let's say a level at $150/yr and EUR100/yr. If yes, how did you do so far? Not just PayPal applying the change rate of the day of course.
Thanks.
Member — 30th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
I haven't done it, but would like to have this option too. I mentioned it in an earlier post, and it would be nice to see in future releases.
Member — 30th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
I hoped I could build a patch and make it multi-currency, but the way it's done, it's unfortunately impossible (there's not even a currency field in the wp_pro_sites table so the amount is always meant in the same default currency).
So yes, it would be more than nice to have this option in a future release. Giving to the customer the ability to pay in their own currency allows a much higher conversion rate (European people don't like to pay in US dollars and American people almost never pay in Euros). So the sooner the best for this feature actually.
@Aaron, would it be too late at this stage of progress (RC1) to just make this version just multi-currency "friendly" or compatible by storing and using the currency in the database and ensuring both amount and currency may be ovrriden by extension with custom code (plans, coupons, etc.)?
Thanks.
Lead Developer — 30th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
That's a huge undertaking and currently none of our plugins (or any others out there) support this type of setup. You also have to deal with gateways though. The vast majority only let you receive payments in the currency of your account, PayPal for example this is not possible.
Member — 30th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Huh?
Of course it is. you can set payment currency to anything you want; I have this in almost all my custom coded web sites.
It's just a matter of what you set the currencyCodeType parameter to for express checkout payments, or CURRENCYCODE for direct payments with website payments pro, and in your account you can set up any currencies you want to receive in, with balances for each currency.
That's been possible for years and years and years in PayPal.
You MAY block payments made to you in a currency you don't hold, but you can either open a balance in that currency, or convert it in YOUR end when any payment is done. Still, that doesn't affect the buyer, he still pays the same amount in HIS currency.
I prefer to hold multiple currencies in my account, since I often make payments in various currencies, and therefore avoid exchange fees... only time is when I withdraw the money.
Member — 30th September 2011 (7 months ago) #
Sorry, the nvp paramater is CURRENCYCODE both for express checkout and direct payments with website payments pro. The other was an internal parameter in PayPals example code. My mistake.
I still like to see this both in this plugin, and in the membership plugin... both has the same issue, forcing me to create separate web sites for each audience.
Having multiple currency options makes a huge difference in conversions...
Member — 2nd October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Ok
Installing pro-sites-3.0-RC-1.zip on a production site.
because Aaron says it is good to auto-update
Also, is it possible for pro-sites to auto-check if supporter was installed, and clean up any rubbish files/entries. (as it seems to be an issue)
Thanks
Johnny
Member — 3rd October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Aaron, is pro sites ready for production sites yet?
Thx
Member — 3rd October 2011 (7 months ago) #
What are the install instructions? Couldn't find read me file in pro-sites-3.0-RC-1.zip.
Member — 3rd October 2011 (7 months ago) #
@webezy
Prosites installed on my production site fine. (no errors)
Also, the RC1 release is auto-updateable when the real version comes out.
Johnny
Member — 3rd October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Thx Johnny for the assurance, can you tell me how to install? Do you install in mu-plugins folder or plugins folder?
Member — 3rd October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Domain Mapping Plugin is not compatible?!
Bests
Thorsten
Lead Developer — 3rd October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Should be compatible just fine.
Member — 3rd October 2011 (7 months ago) #
If you activate 'Supporters Only' you won't see anything?!
Bests
Thorsten
Lead Developer — 3rd October 2011 (7 months ago) #
See anything? is_supporter() function is backwards compatible in pro sites, so it will return true for any blog that is upgraded to a pro sites level.
Member — 3rd October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Mmmm... And if we allow only the second level for domain mapping? Is it something you will upgrade soon in the Domain Mapping plugin?
Lead Developer — 3rd October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hope to add level support to most of our integrating plugins, though not top priority.
Member — 3rd October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Okay.
At least, would it be possible to allow overriding the defaut "Supporter" level? In other words, change the implementation of the 'is_supporter' function by something like this:
That would allow us to patch something while waiting for integrating plugins upgrade.
Thanks.
Lead Developer — 3rd October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Thats a good idea, ok.
Member — 3rd October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Cool, thanks Aaron.
Member — 4th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
The upgrade notice/form is failing accessibility tests, mainly by missing radio buttons and labels but acts like it should have, users with screen readers will discover the form, see the table and then read the content and then the "No thanks, I'll pass" but never gets the ability to select any of the options.
Also, of minor importance, there is a bug in the site.com/pro-site/ page that causes PHP to give warning messages for each subscription period if PHP debug is E_ALL:
Member — 4th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
is this going to have an offline payment option?
how about integration with non-american payment solutions, such as russian webmoney etc?
Member — 4th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Noticed this on on my add on site at top
You have 100489 days left in your Pro free trial. Checkout now to prevent loosing Pro features »
Is this the intended message for a site
the history of the site is this
2011-09-14 3:40:33 pm Pro Site level upgraded from "Pro" to "Pro Elite".
2011-09-14 3:40:32 pm Pro Site status expiration permanently extended.
2011-09-14 5:24:14 am Pro Site status expiration extended until September 28, 2011.
Member — 4th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Aaron -
I'm a bit confused as to whether I need the pay to blog along with pro-sites. We don't offer a "free" option, they are all paid.
Provector.us.
Thanks
Member — 4th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Second Question, or request - can the affiliate package work with this? We are paying affiliates for the monthly subscriptions..
Member — 4th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
@Aaron,
I passed through the different settings and I was wondering about the purpose of the following ones:
- base_country
- active_message
Thanks.
Member — 4th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hi.
My first end to end testing with Pro Sites and PayPal Express Checkout and it's not very successfull: I'm stuck on the upgrade page with the following error returned by the 'SetExpressCheckout' function:
- Error code = 10002
- Short message = Security error
- Long message = Security header is not valid
By the way, this error is not displayed on the upgrade page, is it normal?
Of course I created and entered my PayPal API settings (Username, Password and Signature) and I subscribed to Express Checkout on my business PayPal account. Additionally, I'm from Canada and I access my account from the Canadian site, so I setup the Canadian site and the Canadian dollar in Pro-Sites. And I'm in test mode.
What am I missing? Just creating a sandbox account instead of using my live business account?
Thanks.
Member — 4th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Just a quick additional question: why Express Checkout and Payments Pro but not Payments Standard? Is there a technical reason or just missing time? Is it planned for a future release?
Thanks.
Lead Developer — 4th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Base country is the setting on general used for shipping/tax calculations. active_message is not in MP, not sure where you are seeing that.
Security header means your API info has a problem. If you are using the sandbox you need to enter sandbox API info, ditto with live.
Re: Standard Paypal - thats what the old supporter used, and is far less powerful. Express is still free but allows for:
- Seemless checkout, redirect back to payment page
- Upgrades/Downgrades
- Cancelations
- Refunds
Lead Developer — 4th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Good catch that would be how many days till the next y2k bug (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem for you nerds) which is really what permanent extending changes it too. I'll fix manually extending so that it overrides the gateway field and stop showing as a trial.
Affiliate should work for this for the first payment just as it did for supporter. Already does, choose the manual payment gateway.Member — 5th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Didnt realize that it worked for the first installment only, is there a way to make it perpetual?
Member — 5th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Okay. But I scanned the entire code, and the only place it looks appearing is on defining its default value. It's not even settable, is it? So can we change it, and if yes, how except by custom code?
Well, it's defined on line 211 of pro-sites.php, so stored in the settings. It's the only place I could find it in the code.
Yes, I have my answer.
Than Express Checkout? It still allows CC payment for free (no monthly nor SSL fees). So it's definitely dropped?
Thanks.
Member — 5th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hey I may of found a potential problem when I was messin around with t rying to get problogs to work with the support system, but was getting issues with it recognizing the function is_supporter... pro blogs was getting loaded after incsub since when I changed the folder name to zincsub it started working again
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/supporter?replies=25#post-138086
My post in the supporter system if you wanan see the problems I had ^
I found a article about load order Im sure you know all this stuff already but figured Id post it anyway in case its somthin new for you
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-plugins-load-order
*Edit* of course markepress has no issues so I dunno maybe it wasnt load order...maybe changeing folder names did somthin else... but still you guys are smarter then I am so you can draw your own conclusions lol
Lead Developer — 5th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Yes it's load order, responded on the other thread.
as to PayPal Standard, yes it is gone because express is also free and allows for:
- Seemless checkout, redirect back to payment page
- Upgrades/Downgrades
- Cancelations
- Refunds
Lead Developer — 5th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hmmm, how should I degrade it? Should it use a noscript tag?
I'm having trouble recreating this. What are the levels/plans you have and dollar amounts for each?
Member — 5th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
You need to have the buttons be <input type="radio" id="unique_name"> and use <label for="unique_name">, when that is done you can use JavaScript to replace/hide/modify the inputs to look however you want. Doing so is not so much about degrading gracefully but rather about the basis of writing semantic HTML.
Turns out the warning messages was due to some amounts were empty.
Member — 5th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Aaron - If I save settings in prosites, it removes all of the selected elements in the modules settings (nothing is checked). I don't have to change anything in settings, just hit save and it wipes out the settings in modules.
Plugins active are multi-db and domain mapping.
Reported problem in another thread but I've waited a week since the last response.
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/prosites-multi-db-prosites-settings-retention-problem?replies=6#post-138218
Did the suggested change to the config-db file with no difference.
Thanks Troy
Member — 5th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
@Aaron,
Could you add a new filter on product checkout description? On lines 724, 770 and 1016 of pro-sites.php:
$desc = apply_filters('psts_pypl_checkout_desc', $blog_id, $_POST['period'], $_POST['level'], $paymentAmount, isset($discountAmt) ? $discountAmt : false);One more time, a very small change but a great value.
Thanks.
Lead Developer — 5th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Will do, though this will be the hook:
$desc = apply_filters('psts_pypl_checkout_desc', $desc, $_POST['period'], $_POST['level'], $paymentAmount, $discountAmt, $blog_id);Member — 5th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Yes, you're absolutely right on the second argument. My mistake, I was a bit fast on this one.
Though, what will be the value of the '$discountAmt' argument when there's no discount: 0, false or NULL? Just to be sure to test it correctly.
Thanks.
Member — 5th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hi.
I’m experiencing unexpected results after the checkout process.
Let’s say I’m a user with a free blog and I want to upgrade my blog. On the upgrade page, I select the higher level, I Express Checkout, and when I come back from PayPal I’m told my subscription was successful. Until here, everything’s right. Now I come back to my upgrade page and I have no information anymore about my subscription. In fact, I have the exact same page as before upgrading, asking me to choose the right plan for me. However, I have still access to the level’s features. Am I missing something?
To complete the test, I repeat the process: I Express Checkout the same plan and follow the same process one more time. Now I have the whole information about my subscription on my upgrade page! What did happen? Why not the first time?
Even more confusing, now I receive an email telling me not to forget to cancel my old subscription! Did I pay and/or subscribe twice? Is the checkout button not also used to just update the payment information?
So as a good boy, I cancel my subscription with the only button available. Now I’m told I don’t have any current subscription anymore, so I Express Checkout one more time! Finally, everything seems right now, but how many times did I actually pay and/or subscribe? Is this whole process a normal scenario?
Thanks.
Lead Developer — 5th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
What information can you give me about the blog before it was updated? Was did it have an expiration in the future? Had it previously been a supporter blog with old supporter at any time?
Old supporter paypal subscriptions cannot be canceled programatically, so if they change their plan or upgrade it will attempt to detect that and send the email to cancel the old sub themselves in PayPal.
Member — 5th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Yes, exactly.
As per your other questions, I'm currently in test mode on a brand new platform. So no legacy Supporter at all nor any actual financial impact for the moment. The blog was created through BuddyPress signup 2 minutes earlier. I even did it twice with 2 new blogs with the same behavior.
Looking at the code, it's like the condition on line 1199 is always false after the first checkout, isn't it?
Thanks.
Member — 5th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
@Aaron, I found the bug. You just have the switch order of lines 1621 and 1622 in gateway-paypal-express-pro.php. This way, when there's no initial profile id for the blog (my case on first checkout), the last element of the array (popped out in the getter function) is the id itself instead of the timestamp. It explains why it works from the second time on (the timestamp is updated as the second element of the array while the new profile id is added at the end). It also explains the manual cancellation email since the first subscription is viewed as with an old gateway (lines 806 and 811).
While being in the 'set_profile_id' method, I've noticed that the timestamp is set in the array with the $txn_id key that is not declared nor initialized so the key is always empty.
Thanks.
Member — 6th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
2 questions....
Sorry if This is somewhere in the previous posts but I couldnt find it anyway.... is there a way to export the prices out to a phpfile.. I was considering making a more or less static features table with a few dynamic elements like perhaps prices, quotas maybe, and number of plugins or themes if possible but prices would be the real nice one
I see in t he code around line 305 and such deals with prices and such where you have price_1 price_3 and so on.... are any of those variables able to be used in a pages php file, in other words are there any global variables I can use. Im getting better at the coding stuff but not the best yet so asking before I screw somthin up lol..
2nd question... coupons I know you can set expiration dates and such... but can you make a coupon that would expire so no one else can use it after a certain date but would continue to discount the ppl who have used the coupon for the duration of their membership..... was considering offering like a 50% off grand opening for the life of their membership... woudl go for a month or so then end but the way Im seeing the coupon system...and correct me if Im wrong but their rates would go up after that month when I really only want it to go up for new members.
thanks.
Lifetime Member — 6th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hiya,
When I add language pack for pro-sites.Network dashboard translated fine,
but user dashboard is not translating.
How can I fix it?
Thanks.
Member — 6th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
@asimetrick
Hi There!
Where would I have to add the code:
Thanks!
Member — 6th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
This is now a very long thread and it is a bit hard to work out where things are up to.
Any chance of starting a new thread that lets us all know where the beta is up to and what bugs/features are still to be fixed prior to the official release?
Many thanks.
Member — 6th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
when is this going to be officially released?
Member — 6th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
@Aaron, I took a stab at it myself, this requires two things in the CSS:
First restore the white text color, then hide the input checkbox and we are all set for a more semantic and accessible form.
Around line 3100 in pro-sites.php:
Around line 3125:
Around line 3150:
I am not confident about modifying checkout code too much (too many bad PayPal bugs have bitten me) but I think think that the <input type="radio"> I introduced can be merged with the hidden input for even simpler markup.
Member — 6th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
@Thorsten,
Those 3 lines of code are meant to replace lines 3297 to 3299 of pro-sites.php.
Thanks.
Lead Developer — 6th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
@asimetrick, thank you very much, that was a particularly nasty bug you found! The timestamp should have been under the $profile_id key.
Re Prices:
I plan to add this capability in a future version, no point delaying release for this. Hmmm, not sure how that could happen. Have you updated your po file? Also are you sure it's not translating? Can you give me a specific string that's not?They can be found in the levels array:
$levels = (array)get_site_option('psts_levels');For an example of how to display them examine the checkout_grid() function
Thanks @KFUK-KFUM
Member — 7th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
How do I add domain mapping only for paying customers at a certain level? I don't see a way to do this in Pro sites.
Lead Developer — 7th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Currently it's at any level until we update domain mapping.
Member — 8th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hi Aaron
Not sure if this has already been raised but there seems to be a double counting of the 'paid for' period when a subscription is created (presumably as a result of the IPN notifications)
The output below is copied from a site log and shows two extensions on a newly created monthly subscription.
The Paypal sandbox account correctly reports the the next payment due on November 8 but obviously the 'supporter' will see December 9 as the next due date. This will be confusing at best.
Just upgraded the same account to a 3 month subscription which has been set with the later creation date effectively missing a month in between. It also looks like the original subscription wasn't suspended or cancelled - not sure if this is by design and we need to notify subscribers to manually cancel the redundant profile.
Regards
Mick
Member — 8th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
I mentioned the double counting of the "paid for" period in a post 12th September, but it may have been overlooked. I didn't give as much details then, though.
Member — 9th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hi,
I have a quick question concerning payments for levels:
level 1 = $2
level 2 = $4
If a user subscribes to level 2, does he pay $4 or $6 per month?
If a user upgrades to level 2 from level 1, what happens to the level 1 subscription? Does he pay $4 or $6 per month?
Thanks,
Michael
Member — 9th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
I don't understand, even with wp-signup.php?Pro+Site=1 the form doesn't show the pro option.
Member — 9th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
@transparencia
You cant select pro site levels during signup which is a bit weird.
They actually have to create their username, create a blog. Go to their email, activate it.
Then, if you have pro sites disabling the front end (pay to blog module), you can force them to choose a level.
Hope that makes sense!
+1 for pay to blog (pro site module) during signup
Johnny
Member — 9th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hey Johnny, thanks man! Yes, I understand. From what I understand it's impossible to have them pay during signup due to the nature of Wordpress signup.
Member — 9th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Yes, I am having a similiar issue. I want my signup to look like edublogs.
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/how-to-re-create-the-edublogs-blog-signup-pages
I also am trying to get domain mapping working on signup too with the new pro-sites.
Johnny
Member — 10th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
+1 for the signup to be smooth and streamlined like edublogs
Member — 10th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
+1 of course on that
Member — 10th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hi,
I can recommend a plugin 'Theme my Login' to customize the registration:
http://elbnetz.com/login/?action=register
Cheers
Thorsten
Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-my-login/
Member — 10th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
That's a great suggestion, Thorsten! :) Does it work perfectly with WPMU and Supporter?
My other question now:
Imagine I want to show a category of posts to supporters only, if they're not supporters and try to access the posts they're redirected to a page. What's the easiest way to do this now?
Member — 10th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
So far it passed all my tests with WPMU. There are some themes where it doesn't look too good but I'm sure if you are more experienced with PHP and CSS, than I am you will be able to solve that minor challenge.
I'm not using it with Support as I am still in beta and waiting for the final release of Pro Sites with with it works so far.
Bests
T
Member — 10th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hi.
Let's say I'm a user upgrading a blog. I have a coupon so I enter it. In PayPal, I can see the discount on the first payment as expected.
Now I come back to my upgrade page and:
1 - I can still enter a coupon, even the same if it has mutiple occurences
2 - The discount appears in the checkout description in PayPal, still on the first payment that has already been made
Is it normal? Aren't coupons reserved for first payments so it shouldn't even be possible to enter any after the first checkout?
Thanks.
Lead Developer — 10th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hmmm, that's a good point. It would technically be possible to apply a coupon to the first 2 payments right away, and more if the coupon was left open for a long time. I guess I need to include a log of coupon codes used by a blog to limit it to once per blog.
Now to catch up with the rest of these bug reports...
Member — 10th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
I was precisely looking for such a log in the code and didn't find any, so it was my next request... Great if you implement it for the next release with a function/API to check it.
Thanks.
Member — 10th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
@Aaron,
Just a reminder on a very minor bug: in pro-sites.php on line 493, the menu is added on index 4 which is the index for WordPress's menu separator. Index 3 being taken by BuddyPress until version 1.2, I propose index 2. Or even 200 to follow the same trend as BuddyPress...
Thanks.
Member — 11th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but I have a few questions about this plugin and it's possible uses.
First, I'm creating a memorial website for children. I need 3 packages - Basic, Plus & Pro (not sure of the names yet). The basic package will be free (forever) but have limited pages, posting, members/users/admins, plugins and themes. It will also not have domain mapping. Plus (still with limitations but more than basic) & Pro (will have all enabled) will have those additional features.
From the main site, I only want members/users to be able to sign up for a site (I believe I can just edit the sign-up page to auto select "Gimme a site" and hide "Just a username, please."). I would like the option to choose the package right then. If an user chooses "Basic" then it should create the account, done. If not, then it should direct them to a payment page.
Now here's the tricky part ... once an user is a "Pro" member and their membership expires, I'd like it to automatically downgrade to the "Basic" level - but not delete their content. Could the content be marked "Draft" with a note that they need to resubscribe? Or something similar? I also want to somehow limit each user to only 1 blog/1 site.
Is this something that can be done? I searched the forums but couldn't quite seem to find the information I needed. The Pro Sites seems to have a few more options than the Supporter plugin and seems like it'd fit what I need but I can't seem to figure out how to configure it.
Also, as a side-note, each time I save the settings, it inserts a new page in the main site as "Pro Sites". Shouldn't it just re-save the one? All the pages are blank except the newest one (which had the levels and a link to PayPal). When will this plugin be released for production?
Thanks for any help/replies!
Member — 11th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hi Aaron,
I'm experimenting with a Godaddy Hosting account with WordPress installs for several secondary domains (e.g., SecondaryDomain1.com, SecondaryDomain2.com, and SecondaryDomain3.com managed within my primary Godaddy account under PrimaryDomain1.com. Will WordPress MultiSite activation and/or Pro Site activation on SecondaryDomain3.com necessarily conflict with WordPress Databases previously created with the GoDaddy WordPress Installer for SecondaryDomain1.com and SecondaryDomain2.com?
When I activated WordPress MultiSite for SecondaryDomain3.com using the WordPress tools to set up a Network under SecondaryDomain3.com, I got the "Warning: An existing WordPress network was detected"..."To create a new network, you will need to empty or remove the network database tables".)
When I tried to activate the Pro Sites plugin on the third of three secondary domains I got the following error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function switch_to_blog() in /home/content/87/7924087/html/secondarydomain3.com/wp-content/plugins/pro-sites/pro-sites.php on line 187
Any suggestions?
Member — 11th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Are we doing a BETA 8 ?
If so, I am assuming it will be auto-updatable.
Thanks
Johnny
Member — 11th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
@BrianWLeonard
Hi, I also have GoDaddy hosting and there are several issues with the hosting that need to be worked out prior to getting Multisite working correctly. How much do you know about FTP and your hosting account? What type of hosting do you have? How many domains on being hosted in the same hosting account? Are you comfortable playing with/changing the settings? If so, please let me know and I can walk you through some of the issues you are having.
In regards to the error with Pro Sites, I personally found it only worked when I installed it in mu-plugins. However, the error you are getting could be related to the first error you got when you tried to activate the network.
Member — 12th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
This thread is getting loooong to keep track.
With Pro Sites approaching "official" release, as mentioned by Aaron, I'd suggest the plugin page to be up so that we can have the most updated info on this major plugin.
Also, Pro Sites seems to be a major revamp and successor of Supporter, hence, sufficient details must be provided for existing users on Supporters to migrate to the new Pro Sites.
One of the most pertinent query about Pro Sites I'm having is ... Discount Code is in right?
Member — 12th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Question on payments... Im messing around in the sandbox some trying to get things ready and while it looks like I can take payments... and they can cancel, when I go into look at their subscriptions I see this:
The Subscription Has Been Cancelled in PayPal
They should continue to have access until December 13, 2011.
PayPal Profile ID: I-FJBTPPDJML67
Last Payment Date: October 12, 2011
Last Payment Amount: $15.00
Last Payment Transaction ID: 0HE54281DL460383V
Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_profile_id() in /home/eze/public_html/wp-content/plugins/pro-sites/pro-sites-files/gateways/gateway-paypal-express-pro.php on line 441
Any idea what that error is? Im not sure how I caused it honestly
Lead Developer — 12th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Good catch will fix that.
Member — 12th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
lol I do what I can... even if I dont know how I do it :)
Lead Developer — 13th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hey guys, really i'm just waiting on sorting out our multidb compatibility problem before final release. We did alot of troubleshooting on that last night. In the meantime, here is RC2 which fixes at least the particularly nasty bugs above. Thanks for your patience!
Member — 13th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hi,
I would like to try using this plugin, but first a couple of questions..
1. "Single payments are no longer supported, only subscriptions now (I may add them back later)"
Are you supporting the Paypal Enhanced Recurring Payment which is less expensive that PayPal Pro? I don't have PayPal Pro, so will I need to either upgrade to Paypal Pro or the users will need a PayPal account to do a subscription?
2. Is the Supporter WRITE plugin included as part of this?
Regards,
Larry
Lead Developer — 13th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
1. From my research Paypal Enhanced Recurring Payments will not work with express checkout API, you have to use those PayPal buttons. So no, if you don't want to require a paypal account you will need to use Pro ($30 vs $20 a month).
2. Yes, with much more power! There are actually 3 module, limit publishing, post quotas, and pay to blog.
Member — 13th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
I have a question for ya... what advertising plugin do you recommend we use... supporter adds wont work with prosites from what Ive seen. Id like to for all non prosites to have adsense or some other sort of adds on their sites.
Member — 13th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
@Aaron,
Thanks for the RC2 release. I was precisely finding one of these nasty bugs when I received your post... ;-)
I don't think you've added the log for the coupon codes, have you? Do you plan to add it for the final release? I just need to know if I build something on my side or if I just wait for the release.
Thanks.
Member — 13th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Here is the finished code for the fix I proposed earlier:
Edit: Can't attach .txt files. Odd.
Member — 13th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Trying to upload a txt file again.
Edit: It seems I can only upload images, txt files and the like are forbidden. Pasting the code here, sorry for the block of text.
Member — 13th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
extended my site and got this in log, I did click on Permanent
2011-10-13 9:14:25 pm Pro Site status expiration permanently extended.
then checked site got this message
This blog is temporarily disabled until payment is received. Please check back later.
Beside needing to change blog to the word site it didn't work.
Member — 13th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hi,
"Single payments are no longer supported, only subscriptions now (I may add them back later)"
Did you add single payments to RC2?
Larry
Member — 13th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hi.
I have a new buggy scenario...
I signup for a new blog through BuddyPress, no Pro-Sites option at signup, so a free blog. Now I upgrade to a Pro-Sites level that has Premium Plugins and an increased upload quota. Checkout page, PayPal payment, confirmation page, email received, upload quota increased, everything works fine. But: my Premium Plugins are not activated!
So I tracked the code, and my guess is the 'auto_update' function is only called on upgrade (modify) not on create, is it? Or I missed something, but anyway, the Premium Plugins are not activated in this scenario.
Thanks.
Lead Developer — 13th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Ok guys, RC3
-integrated supporter ads plugin
-fixes the nasty double extending on initial paypal checkouts.
-prevent coupons being used 2 times on a blog
Any testing of these is much appreciated!
Member — 13th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hi,
I'd be happy to install and test, but need to know if I need to know if Single Paypal payments are included or I need to upgrade to PayPal Pro.
Larry
Lead Developer — 13th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
No, they won't be for a long while as it's the coding of another entire gateway.
Member — 13th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
RC3 is missing the accessibility enhancements?
Member — 13th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hi,
My issue with using PayPal Pro involves data security for credit card transactions:
"With Website Payments Standard, PayPal handles the payment card information for you. Because Website Payments Pro lets you accept payments directly on your site, you have to comply with data protection standards yourself."
Not including the existing Supporter Gateway seems like a compatability issue when this replaces Supporter.
Regarrds,
Larry
Member — 14th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
@Arron,
I tested the coupon restriction. What's been implemented works fine so far. But, in my mind, a given coupon may not only be used twice on the same blog as presently coded, but also any other coupon should not be used at all once a previous one has already been used on that blog. I think it's the only thing that makes sense since the first payment is the only one that's not recurring, isn't it?
If I'm missing something, at least let it be extended with something like this (line 1113 of pro-sites.php):
if (is_array($used) && apply_filters('psts_used_coupon', in_array($coupon_code, $used), $coupon_code, $used, $blog_id))One more thing: the buggy scenario I reported a couple hours ago has not been fixed, right? Did you have a chance to take a look at it?
Thanks.
Member — 14th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Can we break the post here and start a new one? Call it Pro Sites RC3?
Lead Developer — 14th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Thanks asimetrick, will fix. Also i'm adding a filter in check_coupon() for you so you can override, though it applies to the entire function.
//allow plugins to override coupon check by returning a boolean value
Member — 14th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Excellent!
Thanks Aaron.
Member — 14th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
On the coupons I know you said itll be awhile till you can give a lifetime coupon like 15% off for life... howabout the uses part of the coupon system thats already implemented? if I were to say ... 500 uses on a coupon would that gives 30 dollars off with no expiration... would the 500 ppl then have that coupon for the life of their account and allow me to raise prices after the 'introductory' period without it lookin like im raisin prices lol.
Member — 14th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Hi Aaron
It may be just me but it looks like the latest fix for the 'double extending' has removed the normal extending of the subscription for recurring payments.
Looks like it needs something like:
somewhere within the case 'Completed': case 'Processed': switch block.
Mick
Lead Developer — 14th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Thank you so much for catching that! That would have caused us all alot of pain a month down the road ;-) Rep points for you...
Lead Developer — 14th October 2011 (7 months ago) #
Ok all started a new thread for RC4: http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/pro-sites-supporter-30-rc4-almost-there
Make sure you subscribe to it for the release announcement next week. Thank you so much for your invaluable testing, i'll be looking back and awarding rep points to some of you!
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