Matthew Swift

I made multiple changes to substitute the built-in “author” role in place of the “WPDM-tester” role. Same results: correct in all cases except the wpdm_category shortcode case.

I remind you that the plugin can and does handle permissions properly (including “custom” roles) in other circumstances, just not within the wpdm_category shortcode. Individual package pages, WordPress pages containing wpdm_package shortcodes, and the static category archive page all work fine. Either the wpdm_category shortcode is not using the same code base as the other three to check the user’s access to a package, or it is providing the wrong parameters/context to the shared subroutine. Instrumenting the permissions check code seems like the way to go if you ask me, to see what’s going wrong.

Therefore please add to the documentation of [file_list] (and also presumably for [file_list_extended]) at https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/doc/templates/template-tags/ a statement such as:

for performance reasons, this shortcode is disabled in the category page [or “archive page” as you put it above]

It would also be helpful, instead of simply disabling the shortcode so that it passes through un-interpreted, which will always look to the user like a bug, to substitute a different subroutine which simply prints the message “file_list shortcode is disabled for performance reasons”.

It would also be nice if this performance decision could be over-ridden by the administrator in Settings for cases where the performance hit is irrelevant. The fact that the default is disabled “for performance reasons” alerts user to potential performance issues when scaling up the use of it.

The contents of the shortcode page, which is the page with the problem is:

[wpdm_category id="wpdm-package-category" cols="1" toolbar="1"]

Value of template= does not change results, only packages 2 and 4 are visible.

Sorry for the delay I thought I would automatically be subscribed to my own posts but I was not. My site has sensitive data and I will send the private message after I have set up a separate area for you which reproduces the problem. Meanwhile, I have described the problem very carefully. Are you unable to reproduce it on your system? What further questions do you have that I can answer?