[wp-hackers] Multisite Users and 500 Server Errors

[Mika A Epstein]

What capabilities do they need that they don't have?

You say they don't need to be able to edit themes and plugins, but what 
DO they need to do? :)
> Jesse Friedman <mailto:me at jes.se.com>
> September 25, 2013 10:13 AM
> I have a rather large Multi-Site Network (over 500 websites). We host all
> our clients sites and also write for them. So I'm in a weird situation
> where I need to provide editors and writers "super admin" like access.
>
> However I don't want those users to have super admin rights. We tried
> using Extended Super Admins
> http://wordpress.org/plugins/extended-super-admins/ which basically allows
> you to take away capabilities from super admins which is nice but it
> uncovered a flaw.
>
> When you're a user on more than 50 or so sites on a WordPress network, the
> server often fails at trying to serve up pages, especially
> /wp-admin/network/users.php and wp-admin/network/sites.php, causing a 500
> Server Error. This isn't a problem for true Super Admins, because they
> aren't technically users on any site.
>
> The ESA plugin mentioned above makes you a user of every site you visit
> (once you visit the site it makes you a user of that site so you can edit
> the ESA options for that site) which if you have a small network is no big
> deal. But eventually all my users end up getting 500 errors when the 
> server
> tries to identify all the sites they're a user of.
>
> So I need help trying to figure out a workflow for my writers. They have
> absolutely no reason to go into the Network area, edit sites, themes,
> plugins etc... I trust all of them but at the same time it's just too much
> access for them.
>
> POSSIBLE SOLUTION
>
> I'm thinking I could just keep a list of the writers in a file and hook
> into all Network level saves and ask if user name == "johnd" do not allow
> things to save. Then I can also user their username as a class in the body
> tag and just use CSS and JavaScript to hide the entire dashboard.
>
> Has anyone done anything like this?
>
> Does anyone have a better solution?
>
>
>

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