JohnCourt

I will Jim, I contacted the dev, but I'll wait till I hear back a confirmation from him before I know for sure, then I'll report back here. Thanks!

Wonder if anyone can give me some direction on this, we seem to be having intermittent issues displaying YouTube videos. When the share link is copy pasted into the editor interface, the video displays, but when the topic saved, the video does not display. Here is a link to a post reply with YouTube vid shared, but not displaying: https://thepatriotwoodworker.com/forums/topic/40651-lets-talk-loose-tenons/?do=findComment&comment=339447 Thanks for any help in advance. 🙂 Woops, just disabled all customization's and it works now, sorry for the false alarm, I'll see which plugin or app is causing this, sorry!

One of the first things I did Gary, disable plugins and non native apps, and my version is up to date, but as stated above I think it's not possible at all anyway.

Marc, I think this is a challenging flow for guest donors. And also a bit confusing for Admins at the checkout settings because in checkout settings there is a "Guest Checking Out" area. So really there is no Guest Checkout, if you have to become a member to check out you are no longer a guest. I was just settling in with the idea that at least as Gary stated the guest would be prompted to create an account at checkout, but as we know now there is no way for the guest to get to that point of checkout unless you provide a manual link to the donation page, and even if they get that far they still can't checkout as Gary thought they should be able to do. I think where my mind was stuck is since there is a "Guests Checking Out" settings then a guest should be able to access the checkout without logging in. So this creates another problem, how do the guests know they have to log in in order to check out? They cannot access the donation page through the Donation Goals block, so I guess we'd have to somewhere install a visible message stating "Guests, if you wish to donate to our fundraiser, please create an account". It's really a shame the bad guys of the world (brute force attacker credit card scammer pieces of sh#t) ruin if for us regular people. Kind of a microcosm of the way our society has become right? The innocent get screwed for the actions of the bad. Anyway, beside the workflow being a challenge for non members to donate to our fundraiser (thus really nobody outside of the community will donate because it's such a hassle), I feel the admin area of Payment Settings/Checkout could use some tune up as far as getting rid of "Guests Checking Out". I feel it's confusing, it should probably just be eliminated?

Hey guys, so how do my guest even get to the page to make a donation, then to be prompted to sign up and check out? Do they have to join up first? Because at this point they just get an error message.

Ya gotta pardon my ignorance Marc, but couldn't they do that as logged in members if they are that nefarious? By the way guys, if you'd like, you can delete the links to my website above, thanks 🙂

Thanks Gary, but at the same time, can anyone tell me why we can't make this happen? With all the expertise and knowledge the devs here have, is there anyway we can make the native feature usable for guests without having to become a member? Like I stated, we can go anywhere and purchase items as a guest on virtually any retailers site on the www without jumping through hoops to become a logged in customer.

Thinking about a workaround, I suppose I could just create a PayPal button and use it for donations.

I appreciate the help and looking into it guys. I am not sure why that would be intentional, that sure narrows down our fundraising efforts. Specially since our community is fairly small, and as a guest who most likely does not want to create "another account" that they'll probably never use, I am afraid is asking too much of a guest to make a donation for the cause. While our community is on the surface about woodworking and crafts, our main cause is supporting our veterans, so what we have are folks who may not be woodworkers, and don't want to be a part of our community, but they would love to support our veterans and donate to us to help us help our causes. Is this something that happened in the past couple years? Because somehow in the past, we have had guests donate. I know that has happened because I have friends at work who have donated in the past and they are not members. Thanks for your efforts gents. 🙂 Reading the topic linked above, a brute force attack is the reason, what happens when this happens? Thinking about the donation by members only feature, I have used guest check out on sites before, I don't think I've ever been forced to create an account to check out from any retail site.

By the way Gary, to answer your question about Guests being declined, I don't think that is a problem since they can't access the payment UI.

Thanks Gary, all the above is set up appropriately, and the error still persists. Also MaxMind is disabled. I have attempted to donate as a guest and I cannot get to the payment. If you'd like to please try it yourself. Go to this topic and click on the Donate graphic, you'll then be taken to the donation page. Don't worry when my issue gets fixed I'll back track here and delete the link. Not trying to get donations here. ****link removed**** There is also another issue that I just noticed. I have enabled "Current Donation Goals" box at the upper right of this page: ****link removed**** As a guest you cannot click on it. As a logged in user you can click on it and it will open up the donation page. Please try it. Thanks for any help Gary.

Good day folks, I hope you can help me. We are doing a fundraiser in our community, logged in members are successfully donating and being redirected to PayPal and payments are successful, but when a Guest tried to donate, this is the error message we get, any help or direction is greatly appreciated 🙂

Thanks Marc, will do!

Howdy folks, is there a setting somewhere that I can turn on to notify me when someone edits an article or record in wiki mode? Thanks!

Thanks sir Jim. 🙂