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Hello,

This menu can be found in wp-admin > Private Area (top left sidebar) > Status > Templates.

Regards.

Hello,

when user B tries to upload a PDF to that Private file, I get the error

In order to be allowed to upload an attachment file to a private file post, the currently logged in user needs to be either author, or assigned to the post.

However, administrators should be able to upload attachments in every post, even if they’re not author nor assignee.

Is this how it works? It wans’t like this on previous versions.

There’s currently a bug in actual versions which prevents an administrator to add attachment files to ANY private file post. Could you confirm that the error you’re getting happens once you’re logged-in as an administrator user, which is not author nor assignee of the private file post? This issue will be fixed in future versions, but I can actually provide you an update to fix that before we release the next version.

Let me know.

Regards.

Hello,

I also wonder if there is any YouTube clips about WPCA that could help beginners to make changes in private area design.

You could find a few community clips on Youtube related to WP Customer Area, but I don’t think you’ll find tutorials specifically related to layout customization.

Customizing your private area is like customizing a WordPress theme. This rely on editing some templates, tweaking the CSS rules, and playing around with hooks and filters. We cannot provide full courses about this since we’re just following the WordPress development principles, but you could take a look at our template system documentation, our code snippets documentation, our code snippets examples, and ask there about anything you’d like to edit, so we could advice about the best approach.

I have read about making skins. Is there any free skins or examples from other users that I could implement or learn from?

Not from the community. The design extras add-on is actually including a dozen of skins. But I don’t recommend you to create a skin, it would not be the best approach, especially if you are not a programmer. This is definitely a way that require development skills.

Or is there an ad-on that I should have that will open up the design in the private area?

What do you mean by “open up the design”?

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Do not hesitate to give precise examples about what you’d like to edit, what you’d like to do, and I could give advices.

Also, please create your own support topic.

Regards.

Hello,

We don’t have such a feature, and this is not / won’t be planned, sorry.

You could try to add that feature with third party plugins from the market, but you’ll probably need to check this FAQ if you’re encountering graphical issues with those plugins, on the frontend login pages from the Authentication Forms add-on:

My plugin or custom component does not display very well if included into the Customer Area

Regards.

Hello,

I have the compatibility plugin installed. Doesn’t seem to do anything.

Just in case: did you activate the plugin?

Everything is in one long, narrow column. Can’t make it full width.

The DIVI compatibility add-on should actually make the private area’s layout full-width out of the box, but there’s might be something wrong in your case? Could you please provide screenshots in a private reply, showing the issues you’re facing?

Regards.

Hi,

but I meant to open the pdf file in a blank window

To make sure I correctly understand your request: You actually want the file to be opened and displayed into the browser, in a new browser’s tab, instead of getting it downloaded to your computer?

If yes, the answer I previously gave is the correct one. The Enhanced Files add-on allows you to specify file types for which the browser should attempt, if compatible, to display them directly in a new tab.

However, if you want the attachment to be downloaded in a new tab, but not to be display, this would require a bit of template editing (see our template system documentation).

You could copy to the templates folder, and edit the file customer-area/src/php/core-addons/customer-private-files/templates/customer-private-files-single-post-footer.template.php, line 73, change this:

<a href="<?php cuar_the_attached_file_link($post->ID, $file); ?>"

to this:

<a href="<?php cuar_the_attached_file_link($post->ID, $file); ?>" target="_BLANK"

Regards.

Hello,

You can use the Enhanced Files add-on for that, which will add new options in Settings > WP Customer Area > Private Files, to select file types for which you’dl like the client browser to attempt to open them directly into the browser.

However, please note that opening files into the browser will only work on compatible browsers (depending on the file type).

Web browsers won’t open word files (docx format), but will prompt the user to download the file instead.

Regards.

Hello,

Unfortunately, this is not doable for now. “File downloaded” notifications depend on each attachment from a private file post. So, if you created a private file post with 30 files attached, and select the option “only the first time”, you’ll actually get up to 30 notifications.

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However, WP Customer Area is almost always extendable and this should probably be done by code.

If you have few development skills, you could try solving this programmatically. Else I would recommend hiring a webdeveloper from your region. This kind of customiztaion request goes outside of our support scope, so we won’t be able to help more than giving a few tips:

• you could create a custom code snippet and create a function bound to “cuar/private-content/files/on-download”, with a higher priority, and increment the download count for the clicked attachment
• this means the notifications will then not be sent because the count would be 2, instead of 1

Note that this code isn’t tested, but just written as a guideline example. Please do no try that on your live site.

<?php
/**
 * Change the behavior of "only the first time" option (per attachment), to send only the first time per private file
 * post
 *
 * @param int                   $post_id
 * @param int                   $user_id The user who downloaded the file
 * @param CUAR_PrivateFileAddOn $pf_addon
 * @param string                $file_id
 */
function wpca_send_file_download_notifications_once_per_post($post_id, $user_id, $pf_addon, $file_id)
{
	$notification_id = 'private-file-downloaded';
	$notif_settings = $this->no_addon->settings()->get_notification_params($notification_id);

	/*
	 * if only the first time is activated,
	 * - we'll loop through all attachments from the post if the current has its "download count" to 1 (= first time
	 * downloading this attachment)
	 * - If one of attachment already has a count >1, then we increment the download count of the file to 2
	 * - next function sending emails will bypass sending notifications
	 */
	if ($notif_settings['mode'] == 'first')
	{
		$attachments = $pf_addon->get_attached_files($post_id);
		$count = $pf_addon->get_file_download_count($post_id, $file_id, $user_id);
		if($count === 1)
		{
			foreach ($attachments as $attachment_id => $attachment_data)
			{
				$count = $pf_addon->get_file_download_count($post_id, $attachment_id, $user_id);
				if ($count >= 1)
				{
					$pf_addon->increment_file_download_count($post_id, $file_id, $user_id);
					return;
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

add_action('cuar/private-content/files/on-download','wpca_send_file_download_notifications_once_per_post', 5, 4);
add_action('cuar/private-content/files/on-view', 'wpca_send_file_download_notifications_once_per_post', 5, 4);

I hope that helps.

Regards.

in the tasks section, the tasks are shown chronologically

Also, please note that by using the Front Office Publishing add-on, you’ll be able to reorder by drag and dropping them when editing the post (And probably also from the admin UI view, can’t verify that right now).

If you change the code by following the above recommandations because you’d simply prefer ordering by date, drag and drop re-ordering won’t work anymore, and created date will be used (depending on what you chose and did into your code snippet).

Regards.

Regards.

Hello,

tasks are shown chronologically (the last we’ve add is the first in the list)

There’s no built-in or GUI way to do that, but you could, theorically, affect, via a standard WP code snippet, the query made to pull the tasks. WPCAs’ tasks are actually standard WP’s custom post types. It means that when you save a task, you’ll also save a “created date” data, that you can use to affect your query and display them accordingly. But take care that we also have a special field, displaying a calendar, that should allow you to select a due date, which would be a differrent date that the “created date”, if set. It would be up to you to adapt the code accordingly in case you also want to take it into account.

However, if you don’t have any development skill to adapt that, we would recommend hiring a WP developer from your region, to create such a code snippet for you. If you can understand that a bit, we could recommend you to use the filter named “cuar/content-container/tasks/query-args/tasks-of-list” (file “customer-area-tasks/src/php/tasks/tasks-addon.class.php”, line 349), and create a custom plugin, including something like the following code snippet:

function wpca_tasks_order_by_date($args) {
$args['orderby'] = 'date';

return $args;
}
add_filter('cuar/content-container/tasks/query-args/tasks-of-list', 'wpca_tasks_order_by_date');

• You could also affect the order by using the “order” parameter and setting it to “DESC”.
• You could also affect the order by checking if a due date date is set, by using the “meta_query” WP_Query filters for the meta named “cuar_task_duedate”.

However, this request is some kind of customization that goes outside of our support scope, and we won’t be able to provide on-demand code to specifically answer your request, but the above suggestions are the way to go and would be easy to implement for any WP developer.

I hope that’ll helps.

Regards.