WordPress multisite Super Admin: How this record with with so high permissions is defined? Are any user role or user capabilities used for that?
For the 1st glance, we have a quick answer. Yes, of course, just look at these user capabilities set: 'create_sites', 'manage_sites', 'manage_network', 'manage_network_options', 'manage_network_plugins', 'manage_network_themes', 'manage_network_users'. These capabilities definitely differentiate local administrator from the network one. And we will be right. If to add capabilities listed above to the local admin role, e.g. built-in ‘Administrator’ of the 1st, main site of the network, user with such role will get limited Super Admin privileges for the whole network. But it is not the full story. Read more WordPress multisite Super Admin privilege
Author: Vladimir
WP Statistics access for other roles
Administrator only has access to the WP Statistics WordPress plugin by default. Is it possible to allow access to WP Statistics for other roles? For the testing purpose we will give access to the “Statistics” menu of “WP Statistics” plugin to the user with “Editor” role. “Administrator menu access” additional module to the User Role Editor Pro will help to resolve this task.
1st, you need to activate “Administrator menu access” add-on. Go to the “Additional modules” tab of User Role Editor Pro Settings and turn on correspondent checkbox. Read more WP Statistics access for other roles
User Role Editor Pro 4.17
User Role Editor Pro version 4.17 was published October, 3rd, 2014. This release includes:
- “Other roles access” additional module was added. It allows to define which other roles user with current role may see at WordPress: dropdown menus, e.g assign role to user editing user profile, etc.
- Correspondent front-end admin menu bar items are blocked according to settings of “Admin menu blocking” add-on.
- Edit access restrictions add-on: Bulk actions helper was added. It is possible to select posts from the posts list and allow/prohibit access for editing them to the group of users. Go to the “Posts/Pages”, select bulk action “Edit Access” and click “Apply”.
- uninstall.php was updated to delete data of “Widgets access”, “Other roles access” add-ons.
- Multisite: – case when URE was not network activated: It is possible to use own settings for single site activated instances of User Role Editor. It used the only version of settings values from the main blog earlier.
Other roles access management
Other Roles Access additional module for User Role Editor Pro WordPress plugin allows to block roles from selection in the WordPress drop-down lists (e.g at user profile) by the user with current role. Those roles tabs at the “Users” page will be hidden from the current role too. This way you may add to your WordPress some kind of roles hierarchy – which roles are available for the current one, but which are not. Read more Other roles access management
User Role Editor Pro 4.16
User Role Editor Pro 4.16 was published at September 12, 2014. The changes applied to this version are:
- Rename role button was added to the URE toolbar. It allows to change user role display name (role ID is always the same). Be careful and double think before rename some built-in WordPress role. It may add some mess to your blog and confuse other users/developers. Read more User Role Editor Pro 4.16
