Hi There – I basically want to use this to grant a select bunch of users the ability to add iframes. A couple of things – I tried to be careful, but, are tall the options here only super admin related, or are these normal permissions? i.e. if I check off Edit Posts, does that mean the person won’t be able to edit posts at all, or just not on a site they own?
Also, I would like to remove the Network Admin from the drop down menu under My Sites – is that possible? What would I need to check off to do that?
Again, I’m try to ONLY add the ability to user unfiltered html to a normal admin – can you help me figure out the appropriate settings for that?
]]>The plugin does not allow administration if WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL is set to true as it cannot fetch info from the codex. I think it should allow capabilities edition anyway as codex info is just a convenience and not a requirement.
Also, is this still active ? I see unanswered messages 1-2 years old
]]>I have just this evening attempted to upgrade a WordPress multisite install from v3.3.2 to v3.6.1. The install went fine, and all other plugins showed up, but Extended Super Admins did not show in the plugin list on the network admin site no matter what I did.
I then tried upgrading my backup from v3.3.2 to v3.5.2 which was fine and Extended Super Admins worked perfectly, which to me implies a change between v3.5.2 and v3.6.1 which has broken or disabled this plugin.
Anyone else using this successfully on a multisite install above v3.5.2? Is this plugin still being developed/supported?
Thanks.
Stewart
Is this plugin still active?
I want to use it on a fairly well known universities server, but I need to know if there is still support for it.
]]>With Extended Super Admins activated, every time a Network Admin visits a blog in the network, the blog gets added to the admin’s My Sites. Is there a way to keep this from happening? Besides that, the plugin has been great. Thanks!
]]>Have multinetwork, multisite installation and have created a new “role” called subnetadmin. The idea is that i want superadmins to be able to manage their networks but i would like to remove the ability for them to
> Delete any users
> Delete any plugins
> Update core
I assigned this role to a specific user, then logged in as that user but notice that the option to delete a user or plugin still exists in the network>>users and network>plugins
The capabilties i “removed” from this user are
manage_network_plugins
delete_themes
manage_network_users
remove_users
update_core
update_plugins
I removed the Extended Super Admins plugin and I still see this under my profile: https://note.io/HK4wgX. How can I properly remove the remnants left by the Extended Super Admins plugin.
]]>It breaks bbPress when activated, removing the ability for members to access areas.
]]>So, first of all I’d like to thank you for the plugin. Saved me some time.
When adding users to roles, the “Users That Should Have This Role” multi select box. Say I select a bunch of users by holding down the Ctrl or Cmd buttons and save that role. If I come back to add one user to that role and forget to hold down Ctrl or Cmd all the other users are reverted back to full super admins on save. Have you considered using a different element than a multi-select box?
Also, are you doing development on this plugin on anything like GitHub? And, if so, would you be interested in accepting a pull request if I can come up with something worth while?
Thanks Again.
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]]>First, if this get’s double posted, my apologies!
I installed ESA in an attempt to create a limited SA for some of my developers on my WPMN installation. In looking around it, I apparently (unintentionally) saved a change that has locked out my Admin user from the Plugins, Users, and other options on the wp-admin menu.
When I attempt to get into the Plugins menu, I get “You do not have sufficient permissions to manage plugins for this site.”
I’ve turned on WP_DEBUG, but get nothing at all useful.
I’m terribly unfamiliar with WP (but getting a crash course :^) and I’m not sure what to try to unscrew myself.
Any help/guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Don
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]]>Has anyone tried this on WP3.5 yet? I don’t want to blow up my system…
Here’s our situation, and why this (if it works) is invaluable. We’re running a multisite installation with over 2000 individuals’ “ePortfolios” so far — and growing.
One of our Instructional Designers is tasked with managing the students who are using the system, and so she needs to be able to go into every single blog and review or correct it. But once she had rights on that many blogs, she couldn’t log in because the server timed out retrieving her profile — many thousands of lines in the usermeta table. Not only would her request time out, but the whole server was brought to its knees.
So clearly she needs to be a superadmin, and in fact once I wiped those thousands of lines from the database, she was able to log in immediately.
But just as clearly we don’t want her installing or removing plugins.
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]]>Hello Curtis,
I hope all is well and that you can point me in the right direction for resolution.
On a WP3.4.2 multisite installation with about 60 sites, when viewing the all users page some sites feature the Super Admin role in the role assignment drop down but others do not. The Extended Super Admin Manager role appears in the drop down list on all sites. Should new Extended Super Admin Roles appear in the drop down list by the name given them when created in the Network admin configuration of a new Extended Super Admin role? For example, I created a new role “Super Admin Sub” but it does not appear in any drop down list on any site.
Various sites were created from various template sites configured with the template plugin.
Some sites are missing the Super Admin in the drop down, how/where do I add the Super Admin to the DB so they appear in the user assignment drop down? And should new ESA roles appear in the drop down?
Thanks,
Phil D
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]]>Hello Curtis,
Just a note to thank you for a great plugin. It is providing us with a solution to provide additional users (primarily subsite admins) on a multisite installation with iframe embed capabilities so their embeds do not get stripped out when switching between visual and HTML.
The default WordPress stripping (from what I have read) that occurs on a Multisite Installation for all users EXCEPT the Network Super Admin is what we are seeking to modify for selected users. https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Roles_and_Capabilities
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/filtered-html-for-editors/faq/
We needed to give administrators and authors on each subsite the ability to embed iframes and Extended Super Admin did exactly that for us.
I created a new role and preserved the unfiltered html privilege for that new role and then assigned it to the users who need iframe embed capabilities and it worked fine.
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This is what I wrote to advise you about:
On our installation, a user must FIRST be set as a SUPER ADMIN and THEN be assigned the new role created in the Extended Super Admin plugin. Failure to set a user as Super Admin FIRST can cause a server crash when directly selecting the new ESA role for a user who is not previously set as a Super Admin.
Would there be a way to validate for this and notify users about this when they are setting a user to an ESA role so they do not think your plugin is broken if they happen to create an ESA user role and try to apply it directly to an admin or other user without first setting the other user to Super Admin?
I thought it was broken at first until I reasoned through what might be happening and changed my user role selection workflow, then it worked fine.
Just a suggestion.
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Other solutions for iframe embedding suggested to us are the two year old plugin “Unfiltered MU” (which many report ceased working at 3.0), and an old unsupported WPMUDEV plugin called Additional Tags that let site owners define additional tags users could use in HTML markup. https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/additional-tags-plugin
Also hacking the kses was suggested (but highly advised against) and then of course there are all the plugins that use oEmbed to insert videos from trusted sources, toolbar video and media embed buttons like those on Ultimate TinyMCE and adding additional trusted oEmbed sources to functions.php.
Adding additional trusted sources could cover some instances but not all and the modified file would get overwritten with a WP upgrade, sooooooo
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Embeds
Our WP Network is semi-private and users are verified, so I am interested in allowing users of a trusted role to embed unfiltered HTML (specifically iframe content) from whatever source they want.
I grasp the security issues involved and I would think that a TinyMCE editor plugin or a dedicated special plugin would exist to manage this without requiring shortcode wrappers for iframes, but perhaps I am looking at this wrong and that is the best solution.
The goal is simple, – on a WP Multisite installation with trusted users, grant selected user roles (primarily subsite admins) the ability in the editor to embed unfiltered HTML so that switching between visual and HTML in the editor does not strip out iframes, etc.
Extended Super Admin gave us a workable solution thanks to you.
Cudos!
Is there a social media presence where I could brag on ESA for you?
Let me know.
Thanks again.
Phil D
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/extended-super-admins/
]]>Hello Curtiss,
Thank you for this great plugin. Our Multisite is used by a French business school and your plugin does exactly what I need: allows some Super Admin to correct students blogs (but avoid them to have access to the multisite structure).
Just a problem for me when I use it (WordPress Multisite 3.4.1 with BuddyPress 1.5.7) : each time a Super Admin visit a child site on the network, he become owner of that site (not in the BuddyPress Bar, but in the WordPress Admin Bar > My Sites). When you check the Super Admin in the Multisite Network users list, it will show all the sites he have visited as his sites, but strangely when you check each of these sites in the sites list in the Multisite Network, the Super Admin is not given as an administrator (fortunatly!!!).
This fact is seen even if the Super Admin has a full role (no options checked in you plugin).
It is ok because the Super Admin seems to not really own the visited site (no change in BuddyPress and in the details of the site). But, this is really problematic, because gradually the list of sites owned by a SuperAdmin is becoming too long (as some Super Admin have to check and correct hundreds of students blogs…
Thank you very much in advance for your help!
Best regards
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]]>For some reason my other roles have disappeared and now my users can’t log-in to WordPress at all. They’re greeted with the message:
“You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
I went ahead and disabled every other plugin sans akismet and the problem persists. I’ve tried deleting all settings and network deactivating the plugin but that didn’t help.
When I try to edit roles not only do most users not show up on the list, the only role that is left is extended-super-admin even though the plugin settings were disabled and the plugin itself deactivated.
..thoughts?
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]]>I’m only getting a short list of capabilities to remove.
running WordPress 3.4 and I have User Role Editor enabled on the main site, but not network wide.
Any ideas?
Here is a screenshot of what I’m getting:
I find it difficult to view other pages on my site after installation.
On the Extended Super Admin Settings page
It says: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
Am i missing something?
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]]>This is the basic “Notice” I get when I go to settings for the plugin:
“Notice: Undefined index: WP-CRM: Add User Messages in D:\example.com\wp-content\plugins\extended-super-admins\class-extended_super_admins.php on line 627”
It looks like I’m getting one notice for each capability for each role – all refer to line 627.
I don’t know if this has anything to do with the slowness, but its pretty slow loading. Otherwise it seems to be working. The slowness isn’t much of an issue as I don’t use it much. I just want to be sure the “notices” are nothing for me to be concerned about.
Thank you for this plugin, it really meets a need for me.
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/extended-super-admins/
]]>Hi Curtiss,
Using your plugin in combination with Networks for WordPress, I notice that when saving settings on the ESA options page will divert me to the same page but on another network. It seems to always switch to the network that has been created last, unless when saving the options on that network in which case it switches to the second from last created network. The settings get saved just fine none the less.
Hope I described this behaviour clear enough ??
Thanks for maintaining this great plugin!
Allard
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]]>Hello,
Extended Super Admins activates but produces a server error when I attempt to access any of its configuration.
I removed every plugin on our multisite installation except this one and it will activate but produces a 500 error each time I try to access its configuration.
We are on a VPS.
This plugin is exactly what we need.
Can you offer any assistance?
Thank you.
Phil D
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/extended-super-admins/
]]>plugin configuration is not listed under settings.
under plugin listing its listed, but without config button
under user management its not listed…
… so I’ve to uninstall the plugin…
Georg
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]]>Hi all.
So, I have created a new super admin (called ‘Not so super admin’) and removed only the following capabilities:
manage_esa_options
manage_network_options
manage_network_plugins
manage_network_themes
The first two work without a hitch. Perfect. The second two, however, don’t seem to do anything. The ‘Not so super admin’ still has the Themes and Plugins items in their network admin menu and can still add/edit/manage themes and plugins for the network.
Am I missing something?
NB: If I allow ‘Not so super admin’ to manage_esa_options and dump $current_user->allcaps from within get_allcaps() I get this (https://pastebin.com/DvLNKeCE) when on the plugin’s settings page for the user assigned to that role.
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]]>Installed it, but nowhere to edit options ??
]]>Hi,
Testing the dev version 0.4a (on a 3.1RC4 install with ONE super admin) I find that I cannot delete any roles I. It just keeps adding more…
Steps:
1. Check on /wp-admin/network/settings.php?page=esa_options_page some capabilities and hit “Save and Add another”
2. After the page reloads, there is a new grey area above that one with the title “New Role” but this new area can not be folded open or close and shows only “Would you like this role to be deleted?” with a checkbox beside it.
3. Place a checkmark in that checkbox and hit “Save and Add another” again.
4. Now there are TWO of those anonymous grey beams at the top. Indistinguishable from each other and not removable…
For what it’s worth: the capabilities that I had initially checked to be removed have indeed gone for this super admin ??
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]]>Hi, this looks like a VERY valuable addition to Multi-site and I can hardly wait to test it but first some questions:
1. I read it is “compatible with the WordPress Multi Network plugin”. As I understand that plugin to be basically a conversion of the old Multi-Site Manager plugin, will Extended Super Admins also be compatible with Networks for WordPress, ddean’s own WP3+ successor of Multi-Site Manager?
2. Will Extended Super Admins allow me to limit a Super Admin to have super admin rights on just one network created by either WordPress Multi Network or Networks for WordPress ?
Thanks ??
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