@kaggdesign “cannot ask access to you site. But if you offer it by yourself,”
That is an admin ask, however you try to get around the rules. You’ve been placed on *modwatch* until we’re convinced such postings have stopped. Your account has *not* been banned, we just want to check things for a while before they’re public. If you wish to take issue with this, contact moderators via email at [email protected]
While I know you have the best of intentions, forum policy is that you not ask users for admin or server access. Users on the forums are not your customers, they’re your open source collaborators, and requesting that kind of access can put you and them at high risk.
If they are paying customers (such as people who bought a premium service/product from you) then by all means, direct them to your official customer support system. But in all other cases, you need to help them here on the forums.
Thankfully are other ways to get information you need:
*Ask the user to install the Health Check plugin and get the data that way.
*Ask for a link to the http://pastebin.com/ or https://gist.github.com log of the user’s web server error log.
*Ask the user to create and post a link to their phpinfo(); output.
*Walk the user through enabling WP_DEBUG and how to log that output to a file and how to share that file.
*Walk the user through basic troubleshooting steps such and disabling all other plugins, clear their cache and cookies and try again (the Health Check plugin can do this without impacting any site visitors).
*Ask the user for the step-by-step directions on how they can reproduce the problem.
You get the idea.
We know volunteer support is not easy, and this guideline can feel needlessly restrictive. It’s actually there to protect you as much as end users. Should their site be hacked or have any issues after you accessed it, you could be held legally liable for damages. In addition, it’s difficult for end users to know the difference between helpful developers and people with malicious intentions. Because of that, we rely on plugin developers and long-standing volunteers (like you) to help us and uphold this particular guideline.
When you help users here and in public, you also help the next person with the same problem.
And, @chengjianping, Please don’t offer to send or post logon credentials on these forums: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/guidelines#the-bad-stuff
It is not OK to offer, enter, or send site credentials on these forums. Thanks for your cooperation.
