[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.

[Vladimir]

whether there is a multisite-wide default new user role in the back-end SQL tables

I do not know multi-site wide default role value for the new users. Every site has its own default role value, like

select * from wp_options where option_name='default_role';

To get this value from site 10 you need to execute:

select * from wp_10_options where option_name='default_role';

This value URE allows to modify. It does not set any multi-site network wide value, which override the value, which admin set when added new user. Value set by admin has a priority.
Did you try to deactivate all plugins and add new user with other then subscriber role then?

[Vladimir]

edit_posts capability now works fine, possibly because we did not network-activate

Yes, it could be the result of single site activation as plugin does not get the full set of options, which it has when it is activated network wide. I need to know what the problem you met.
For example, if you activated ‘edit restrictions’ add-on, then you need to check ‘create_posts’, ‘create_pages’ capabilities in your administrator role, in case they are not included there automatically.

[Vladimir]

also given apparent bugs in post linked above; we are now confirming whether these bugs still exist

Please describe bugs in details, try to answer on questions which I asked at that thread.

[Vladimir]

I confirm the issue with URE Settings page, if plugin was activated for single site of multi-site WordPress network.
I need to refactor code logic, something like this:
1) Network activation: The only URE Settings page under Network Admin Settings, all settings are global for the whole network.
2) Single sites activations: Every site has its own URE Settings page. Additionally, under Network Admin settings superadmin may input license code – one time for the whole network.

Thus current version does not allow to use Pro version as the single site activation plugin. Thanks for the help in discovering this bug.

Licenses are counted for the WordPress installations. One WordPress (including multi-site one) installation requires one license. So Personal membership is enough.

[Vladimir]

I deleted that test message. Those answers were sent before I fixed the problem with email notification.
So we both get forum activity notification emails now. That’s good.

[Vladimir]

Thanks for the information. Let’s proceed in this thread.

[Vladimir]

Thanks for the information. I wonder of the possible problem as I do not see such issues on the ten of my installations.
Yes, if you have no license code in the URE option then you may get ‘automatic updates unavailable’ message, but ‘new version available’ notification should work always.

I will inform you when I publish the next update to make checking together. Interesting, if you will get the notification at admin, and what will be if you click ‘Check for updates’ link under plugin row at “Plugins” page manually?

P.S. There is a problem with email notifications from this (bbPress) forum after I moved site to the Google App Engine. I investigate it.

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