Groups 404 Redirect

18 comments

• Araby Greene

  January 12, 2013 6:20 pm

  I’m using your Groups plugin with the WooCommerce Groups extension on a development site. So far it’s working great on my development site. Today I installed the Groups 404 plugin, but cannot get it to redirect to a specific postID or login page with any of the redirection options.

  I think the way Genesis handles 404 errors is the issue rather than any problem with the Groups 404 plugin. Others using Genesis may encounter the same problem. I’m going to see if the Genesis Widgetized and Not Found plugin can help. Would have been easier to use Groups 404!

  As a workaround for restricted blog posts, I’ve added a non-restricted post to the archive explaining that user would see more posts if they were logged in as a member. Thank you.

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  • kento

    January 14, 2013 11:24 am

    Thanks for sharing that, could you try the following and let me know if it works?

    Try to override Genesis’ redirection by letting the plugin act earlier, for example:

    In groups-404-redirect.php line 44 says:

    add_action( 'wp', array( __CLASS__, 'wp' ) );

    Substitute it with:

    add_action( 'wp', array( __CLASS__, 'wp' ), -1000 );

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• Araby Greene

  January 14, 2013 5:09 pm

  Good thought, but it didn’t work for me. I also tried adding the following line in the redirection section of the plugin, but without success:

  remove_action( ‘genesis_loop’, ‘genesis_404′ );

  As a workaround, I’m using the 404-widget with added text about members-only content, so I will continue to use the WC Groups plugin to restrict access.

  I’ve tried using a custom 404 but it didn’t help with the redirection.
  Thank you for your time. If I discover anything useful, I’ll share it.

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  • kento

    January 17, 2013 11:31 am

    Thanks for trying it, I’ll test this myself and see what can be done to make it work with Genesis as well.

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• Araby Greene

  January 17, 2013 12:10 pm

  Thank you. I know you’re busy and appreciate your looking into usage with Genesis.

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• David Anthony

  January 19, 2013 3:25 am

  Hello there,

  Your plugins are fantastic.

  The Groups 404 isn’t working for me either. The post title is showing in the backend, indicating that I have entered a proper post ID, but it isn’t redirecting. Just displaying the 404 not found error

  Thank you so much for your time and I apologize for the inconvenience, but is there any way you can help me to make it work? My theme was built on Arturo framework if that helps at all.

  Thank you again.
  David

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  • kento

    January 25, 2013 9:02 pm

    Thanks David

    I’d be happy to have a look at that as well, I don’t have a copy of that theme but we can ask the author if he would cooperate to see what’s happening. Are you in touch with him?

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• Nancy Nardi

  January 25, 2013 8:20 pm

  I’m using your Groups plugin with the WooCommerce Groups extension on a Woo Themes site, and cannot get the Groups 404 plugin to redirect to a post or the login page.

  Any suggestions? Thanks

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  • kento

    January 26, 2013 1:38 pm

    Can I have a look on how you’re using it?

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    • Nancy Nardi

      January 27, 2013 1:29 am

      Yes. I tried the Groups 404 plugin on a test site, and it worked just fine. Tried it on two different sites, and the same thing – I still get a 404 page error.

      I tried disabling plugins to see if it there was a conflict, but I could not find one.

      It works on this site:
      http://www.hifithemedemo.com/testsite4/

      It does not work on either of these:

      http://www.hifisocialwebmarketing.com
      http://www.seniorsignite.com

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• Nancy Nardi

  January 29, 2013 3:17 pm

  I was able to get it to work on:

  http://www.seniorsignite.com

  I didn’t do anything different – it just started working today. It’s still not working on http://www.hifisocialwebmarketing.com

  Maybe this just has something to do with hosting – I host on ZippyKid. I setup a test site on zippykid, disabled all plugins except for groups and groups 404, and could not get it to work.

  Setup test site on bluehost and it works just fine.

  thanks for the plugin.

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  • kento

    January 31, 2013 1:19 pm

    Hi Nancy,

    Thanks for trying it out and I’m glad you have it working now. It could also have been related to caching (I found myself wondering when testing another plugin for a demo site where WP Supercache had been enabled and had to be completely removed before things started working again).

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• Robert Bui

  May 7, 2013 1:05 am

  My test shows the problem not redirecting is due to the permalink enabled and the post is custom type.
  Both of these return $current_post_id = 0
  $current_post_id = url_to_postid( $current_url );
  current_post_id = $wp_query->get_queried_object_id();

  As far as I can tell, url_to_postid will not work on custom post type. I am assuming get_queried_object_id suffer the same issue.

  When I disabled permalink, the redirection works.

  So, I am unable to find a solution.

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  • kento

    May 10, 2013 4:12 pm

    Thanks for reporting this Robert, I’ve added an alternative function that will find the post also for CPTs and pretty links. Will release it today

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• Robert Bui

  May 10, 2013 4:18 pm

  Hello all,
  I have tracked down to this function
  Groups_Post_Access::public static function user_can_read_post

  If the user doesn’t have read access the function will return false. It looks like the function is also triggered for unregistered view a restricted post. The url_to_id functions always return 0. This means, we won’t able to find out the post_id either.

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  • kento

    May 10, 2013 4:45 pm

    Hi Robert,

    Please try release 1.1.0 (just out a few minutes ago) which should also work fine now with what you described earlier, let me know in case you still have issues with it.

    Cheers

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• Robert Bui

  May 11, 2013 2:40 pm

  Kento,
  It works perfectly. Thank you very much for your help.

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  • kento

    May 13, 2013 9:36 am

    Great and thanks again for pointing me to the issue!

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