I have buddypress installed with a WP multisite. I'm surprised that a user (even a super admin) doesn't have the ability to simply login once and be able to access everything within the buddypress network. As it turns out, if I login in to the main blog using BP, I still am required to login again on another blog site if I (or a user) wants to comment on a blog post.
To me this seems a bit of a an over kill. Shouldn't it be enough for a user to login once and have access to the entire network?
If this is possible and I am missing something please let me know.
I have buddypress installed with a WP multisite. I'm surprised that a user (even a super admin) doesn't have the ability to simply login once and be able to access everything within the buddypress network. As it turns out, if I login in to the main blog using BP, I still am required to login again on another blog site if I (or a user) wants to comment on a blog post.
To me this seems a bit of a an over kill. Shouldn't it be enough for a user to login once and have access to the entire network?
If this is possible and I am missing something please let me know.
I believe it all comes down to a matter of whether your user account is also setup as a user for those other sites (subscriber, editor, etc.). If you'd like for all created user accounts to have access to the whole network, you should be able to use the following plugin to specify a default role across the sites. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multisite-user-management/
Installed the plugin, but it still doesn't do what I need. All it does is create a default account for each of the blogs on the network, but it does not keep the user logged in I still have to login to any given blog if I want to participate in the discussion.
Hmm, bypassing the plugin for just a moment, I just realized you mentioned that even Super Admin must login to each site on the network. Is that correct? Does that mean that you, as Super Admin, can't simply move from the dashboard of one site to the dashboard of another site without logging in to each?
There has to be something wrong with your cookies/session there then, I can log into my install and go around the whole network without needing to log in again. Is it a new install and have you tried turning all the plugins off and testing?
Occasionally I had a problem when domains where mapped but I think this went away when using WPMUDEVS version (don't quote me there, just not done a heavy amount of testing but I think its true)
@ David and Tim, yes, even as Super Admin I have to (at times) login again when I visit a blog site. I'm not sure what you mean Tim by new install, but it has been installed for at least 5 months. Any suggestions?
I am still needed help on this issue. My login as Super Admin is not universal and it requires me to still login (again) to various blogs after the initial login.
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WPMU DEV Fanatic — 17th March 2011 (1 year ago) #
Hi rillc,
I believe it all comes down to a matter of whether your user account is also setup as a user for those other sites (subscriber, editor, etc.). If you'd like for all created user accounts to have access to the whole network, you should be able to use the following plugin to specify a default role across the sites.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multisite-user-management/
Please let me know if that will work for you!
Cheers,
David
Member — 18th March 2011 (1 year ago) #
Installed the plugin, but it still doesn't do what I need. All it does is create a default account for each of the blogs on the network, but it does not keep the user logged in I still have to login to any given blog if I want to participate in the discussion.
WPMU DEV Fanatic — 18th March 2011 (1 year ago) #
Hmm, bypassing the plugin for just a moment, I just realized you mentioned that even Super Admin must login to each site on the network. Is that correct? Does that mean that you, as Super Admin, can't simply move from the dashboard of one site to the dashboard of another site without logging in to each?
Support Chimp — 18th March 2011 (1 year ago) #
There has to be something wrong with your cookies/session there then, I can log into my install and go around the whole network without needing to log in again. Is it a new install and have you tried turning all the plugins off and testing?
Occasionally I had a problem when domains where mapped but I think this went away when using WPMUDEVS version (don't quote me there, just not done a heavy amount of testing but I think its true)
Member — 18th March 2011 (1 year ago) #
@ David and Tim, yes, even as Super Admin I have to (at times) login again when I visit a blog site. I'm not sure what you mean Tim by new install, but it has been installed for at least 5 months. Any suggestions?
Support Chimp — 18th March 2011 (1 year ago) #
"Have you tried turning all the plugins off and testing?"
Have you tried another browser to check if its a browser issue or browser plugin?
Member — 19th March 2011 (1 year ago) #
@Tim, yes to both questions. I am still having problems.
Support Chimp — 19th March 2011 (1 year ago) #
Any chance of a url and test account?
Member — 20th March 2011 (1 year ago) #
@Tim, Is there an email address you can provide so that I can send login info to?
Member — 22nd March 2011 (1 year ago) #
I am still needed help on this issue. My login as Super Admin is not universal and it requires me to still login (again) to various blogs after the initial login.
Any suggestions?
Member — 27th March 2011 (1 year ago) #
The problem was with the domain mapping plugin.
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