Please provide the screenshot of this page: www.site.com/admin/permissions/roles for Users section where you have allow profile wall posts. 

Here we go, exactly the same as before upgrade when it was working fine. Now the status box appears on the profile page even if they are not Admin.

Uploaded again as PNG error :/

We cannot reproduce that on our demo nor test websites. Please PM me your admin details for the website. 

Sean, you have a bunch of 3rd party plugin disable them all one by one, I'm more than sure it is caused by one of them, switch to the default theme then check if the issue persists

It seems that when I disable the user credits plugin then the permissions work fine again. I'll narrow it down to see what plugin is causing the conflict with it.

Alright, keep us updated. 

Similar problem here. When I enable 'allow profile wall posts' in the users section, it also allows all users to post status updates on someone's profile page. Can this be changed so only the user himself can post status updates on his own profile and other users can only post wall comments?

Hey Marc Vanwetswinkel,

Try deactivating ALL third party plugins, then see if it goes away. Then activate each plugin one by one and see if it comes back...as Ross has stated "We cannot reproduce that on our demo nor test websites" so it may be a third party plugin making it happen. Also make sure all plugins are up to date with 1.7.2 version including your theme...this makes a difference.

Wilson

Hi Wilson

It's a fresh install on 23/01/2015 from the package I found in downloads: Released: Nov 25 '14 (release notes)
My install says Platform versie 1.7.2 (build 8520)
I have no third party plugins installed yet.
I have completely removed the Newsfeed plugin, downloaded it again from the store and installed it again but still the same (except I lost all translations but that's no problem :-)

So I disabled all plugins except newsfeed but nothing changes.

It's not really a "problem" but I hope it can be changed somewhere because it's odd that someone else can update my status or vice versa.

Cheers, Marc

Quote from Wilson ...as Ross has stated "We cannot reproduce that on our demo nor test websites" 

I reproduced it on your demo site :-)

It was not on the demo site because 'The Wall' widget was not on the profile page.



If I drag'n'drop it to the profile page I get the same result.



I think it's because the status update is part of the newsfeed widget on the profile page. If it was a seperate widget, set to be visible only to the profilepage owner, another user would only see the wall comment field.



Cheers, Marc

This is how this action works. If you leave the status area in the newsfeed, it will be the same as a wall post (comment) which is why these two entities are connected. 

to change this is considered as a custom code modification. You can do that on your own or hire a programmer to do that for you. You can find them here: http://www.oxwall.org/market/specialists

Indeed Ross, I figured that out by testing on the demo site.

I just disabled the comment wall on profile pages, although it was the most used feature by our members on our Ning-site, and like you say  use the status area as a comment wall.

Thanks for helping
Marc