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Having a weird issue on our Multisite install, and the only culprit I can think of is the Ultimate Branding plugin, though I will fully admit it may be something else.
As you can see in the screenshot below (I am working on a New Blog Template for our network, and using it as the example here) our META widgets have an "My Account" link on the top of them.
The link goes to the root URL for the specific blog it resides on.
In all of my experience, this link was meant to be the "Admin" area link, taking a user to their specific /wp-admin/ dashboard...
All meta widgets, on all of our multisite subdomains have the "My Account" verbage in this meta widget area, along with the plain old link to their root URL, and NOWHERE is there a way for them to access their dashboard.
We've had a lot of users ask why they cannot access their DB, it's getting to be a rather cumbersome problem for us.
Any ideas of why this may be happening?
I *AM* using the "Rebranded META Widget* module in the Ultimate branding plugin.
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Do you have a My Account page set up within your membership system? The setting for this is in the membership options page - if you could pop me up a screenshot of that page it'd be great.
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If you set the Account page in your membership pages tab of the options to "Select a page" then it won't do this. It assumes that you want to use an account page as the, erm, account page - so if you don't have one set, then it won't do it.
But we do still make use of the /account/ page on our domain, and would prefer to keep it.
Is there a workaround to allow us to continue using it, but also removing the meta widget overwrite? (allowing the dashboard to return to the meta widget)
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Hoy,
It is the Membership plugin that changes the words "Site Admin" to My Account, not the Ultimate Branding plugin.
I tried this with Ultimate Branding, membership and New Blog Templates. The rebranding widgets module was on.
In your case, the My Account link on all sites link to a same page? Where does that link to?
This case sounds strange to me. Let me know!
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Hi Arun:
Thanks for clarifying!
I will have to take a look within Membership, then!
Yes, the "My Account" links all go to the root URL of the subdomain they reside on.
For example, if i have the following blog:
http://blog1.mymiddleearth.com
and there is a META widget on its sidebar, the "My Account" link will go to "http://blog1.mymiddleearth.com"
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Hey @MyMiddleEarth
Let me pass this onto Barry, he knows both Ultimate Branding and Membership.
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Do you have a My Account page set up within your membership system? The setting for this is in the membership options page - if you could pop me up a screenshot of that page it'd be great.
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Here is a partial screenshot Barry
It's a page we customized slightly, but kept the shortcode for the account form.
the url for the page is:
http://mymiddleearth.com/account/
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Greetings MyMiddleEarth,
Thank you for your additional input and screen shot, it is greatly appreciated.
Hopefully Barry will be able to make it back in here sooner then later with his invaluable insight and advice to possibly overcome this issue.
Cheers, Joe
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If you set the Account page in your membership pages tab of the options to "Select a page" then it won't do this. It assumes that you want to use an account page as the, erm, account page - so if you don't have one set, then it won't do it.
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But we do still make use of the /account/ page on our domain, and would prefer to keep it.
Is there a workaround to allow us to continue using it, but also removing the meta widget overwrite? (allowing the dashboard to return to the meta widget)
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