Role Editor For WPMU
I am looking for something like: http://sourceforge.net/projects/role-manager/ for wpmu.
-Brad
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Hiya,
The reason you don't see any plugins like that for WPMU is that each blog has it's own roles & capabilities data stored in the options table. So it's hard to control that from a central place on larger sites.
I'm curious to see what other members have to say on this but we'd definitely need a fair bit of interest to look into this one.
Thanks,
Andrew
Hey everyone,
interest is defnietly there and honestly I found too many disappointing answers about the WPMU issue with roles on the Web than expected.
To Andrew: It would be just fine if what you said would work out:
"The reason you don't see any plugins like that for WPMU is that each blog has it's own roles & capabilities data stored in the options table. So it's hard to control that from a central place on larger sites."
Let me know if I understood you right/wrong:
since it does not work out for me. Once I store capabilities under SiteAdmin>Options in the Backend of another Blog and then return to the Backend of the admin Blog, it changes the options also for my admin. Where exaclty do I have influence on roles and capabilities if not with a proper Plugin?
I'm desperate to find out if there is any Role Plugin working with WPMU and I'd be willing to pay for a proper Plugin, since research on other sites was always a dead end!
Cheers
Sany
What exactly are you looking to achieve with roles?
I was hoping for roles like these:
Super-Administrator - all rights on all blogs (me).
*Network Administrator - Can jump between multiple blogs assigned to this user, has most privileges.
Site Administrator - Has Admin rights on only one blog.
Editor - Has writing and editing rights on only one blog.
* - I realize this role is extremely abstract and may be completely impossible with WPMU 2.9.2.
As Andrew mentioned awhile ago, it's very difficult to achieve a consistent role managers functionality within WPMU (or multi site when it's released) as the roles and capabilities are stored on a blog by blog basis.
Adding a role on the main blog could mean that you need to then run through 10,000 + blogs to add / sync the same roles / users. It is tricky and very server / site intensive. I honestly can't see a need for it, but that could just be me.
@mwiliam - there are much easier ways to achieve that functionality other than with a role editor.
@Barry What is the best way to achieve these roles? More specifically lets focus on the Network Administrator role: how can someone have Multi-site privileges for only a handful of blogs?
I have a MU install with 1,500 blogs and over 12,000 tables. The core of this problem is that each blog has its own user capabilities stored separately, and therefore the capability manager plugin doesn't work with MU. That is what this thread is about. I was wondering if there is a plugin that replaces these tables with a predetermined universal roles and capabilities table, or if this would even be a possibility.
how can someone have Multi-site privileges for only a handful of blogs?
Just assign them as an admin on the blogs you want. You visit the blog backend users section.