[Vladimir]

@JJSpringer: Thanks for letting me know. This feature will be available until the end of this year.

[Vladimir]

It is good that you found a workaround. Your situation is something special. Of course you should not give to the user an ‘add_users’ capability in order he sees ‘howdy’ menu.
If sometime in the future you will desire to investigate this issue I’m ready to take part in it.

[Vladimir]

If issue remains with the only URE plugin active, do you use Admin menu blocking URE add-on? What will be if you deactivate this add-on turning off its check box at the ‘Additional Moduls’ tab of URE Settings?

[Vladimir]

I can not reproduce it. Topbar menu “howdy” is always visible. It seems I need more information.
Try to deactivate all other plugins except User Role Editor. Does issue remain? If ‘No’, what other plugin together with URE does lead to this issue?

[Vladimir]

Thanks for you answers.

At this point, as single site admin I can see URE under Users and under Settings, but not under Plugins.

URE is available at single site “Plugins” list (multisite) under the same condition as it’s available under “Users” and “Settings”. User should have URE’s key capability. It is ‘manage_network_plugins’ in case URE_ENABLE_SIMPLE_ADMIN_FOR_MULTISITE constant is not set or ‘administrator’ – the same as for single site, in other case.
So I understand when you report the 1st issue, that single site admin does not see URE at all. But I don’t see the reason for the current state. Add here the fact that I can not repeat this issue at my test WP multisite, where single admin sees URE under “Plugins” of his site.

Is it possible to get FTP and superadmin access to your test WP mulitisite installation in order to try to find the reason of the problem?

[Vladimir]

What role your single site administrator has? Is it “administrator” or it has some other name?

[Vladimir]

Does single site admin see other plugins under “Plugins” menu at your configuration?

There should be the way to tell WPEngine that your update to wp-config.php is legal and should not be stripped. Other way it loses the sense as you can not customize WP configuration for your own needs.

You are right about ‘Enable “unfiltered_html” capability” option. So I will just hide the other options from local admin, not the whole “Multisite” tab. Thanks.

[Vladimir]

And ‘Yes’ I should re-test what is happend now with network wide settings from the ‘Multisite’ tab. It may stop working.

After thinking a little I went to the conclusion that there is no problem here. If plugin activated for single site, all plugin’s settings should be applied to that single site only. So if it is needed to restrict single site administrator, super admin will set needed options at the “Multisite” tab at this site. Single site admin will not see the “Multisite” tab of URE.

[Vladimir]

In case we activate URE for single site it reads options from the site for which it is activated, not from the primary blog.
And ‘Yes’ I should re-test what is happend now with network wide settings from the ‘Multisite’ tab. It may stop working.

Other problem you showed to me – the “Multisite” tab of single site activated URE plugin should be available to the super-admin only. I will hide it from other administrators.

Try this hack as a quick workaround to provide single site administrators access to the URE: add this line to the wp-config.php

define('URE_ENABLE_SIMPLE_ADMIN_FOR_MULTISITE', 1);

[Vladimir]

Is “Plugins” menu item available for the single site admin at your WordPress multisite?

“Activate access restrictions to User Role Editor for single site administrator” – this add-on allows to limit single site administrator access to the user capabilities when he edits roles. It does not influences on the URE visibility at the plugins list.

[Vladimir]

Thanks to you for the help in isolating this issue and testing the update.

[Vladimir]

This feature is included into upcoming version 4.17, which is at the beta testing stage now.

Use “Other Roles” button in order to block selected roles from the current one:
http://storage.googleapis.com/role-editor/downloads/support/block-other-roles.png

You may download version 4.17 beta from this page:
https://www.role-editor.com/download-plugin/

[Vladimir]

In case you have installed v. 4.17.b3, version 4.17.b4 is available. I found and fixed 1 critical bug during plugin initialization.

[Vladimir]

Bug with update link from the “Network Admin – Settings – User Role Editor” form was confirmed and fixed. Please try updated version 4.17.b3.
When URE is activated for single site (not network wide) its settings (single site Settings – User Role Editor) are applied to that single site only, including the “Multisite” tab options. It is named “Multisite” as these options have sense for the multisite WordPress installation only. You will not see this tab at the single site WordPress installation.
So, Yes, it is supposed to be on all sites where URE is activated.

Thanks for your help. I wait results of tests with 4.17.b3.

[Vladimir]

I made Beta version 4.17.b2 available for download. Check “Beta version testing” section at the usual download page:
https://www.role-editor.com/download-plugin/
Short changes list could be found at readme.txt file.
In relation to problem you discovered – this version allows single site activated instances of URE to use its own copy of the settings.

The only limitation is automatic updates. This is possible from the Network Admin. In order to check if updates available URE should be active. But network Admin “Plugins” page shows active plugins for the main blog only.

Thus, if URE is not network activated and you plan to activate it individually for the subset of sites, you should activate it for the main blog in order automatic updates from the Network Admin will be available. In order input license code to the single site activated plugin use URE Settings under Network Admin – as explained above, this page is available in case URE is active for main blog.

Thanks for the help in testing.

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