A couple features I feel are missing in action.

  • Resolved Seth Riley

    (@sethriley)


    10 years, 9 months ago

    Hello,

    When I installed this plugin I was thinking this would be the perfect option to display a custom navigation menu network wide. the idea for me was to add menu items for my members to watch video tutorials so they would understand how to manage and use their site.

    Obviously this plugin is great and all the extra menu items are very useful. But to me it would only make sense to have a custom toolbar menu for my members. I personally don’t need the custom menu because I have a good understanding of how to run my network.

    Any plans of adding a global menu network wide?

    Also:

    I noticed I have the option to clone a site using an existing sub domain. However, I really can’t use that feature because I use Gravity forms and the site registration add-on they provide. I was hopping that I could set a default template to clone when visitors sign up for my blog network for the first time. Basically it would save them from having to create their own blog.

    Any plans for either one of these features?

    I really like the concept of this plugin but for me I don’t have much use for this plugin without those features. ??

    I really like the extra menu items but whats the point of having the clone site feature if you can’t set a default sub domain to clone when new registrants sign up?

    I guess if you wanted to do everything manually it makes perfect sense but if you are like me you try to automate as many systems as possible to save time.

    Looking forward to hearing from you on this.

    Very well thought out plugin I just see a lot more potential with this.

    Thank you for your time.

    -Seth

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/multisite-toolbar-additions/

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  • Plugin Author David Decker

    (@daveshine)

    Hi Seth!

    Thanks for your feedback!
    Sorry for the delay on my end…

    The purpose of this plugin is purely to server super administrators in multisite context as well as administrators in regular single site installs. It was written for no one else than this kind of user group.
    Therefore all supported plugins are hand-picked if they make somehow sense in a day to day (mulit-) site maintenance work.
    The reason I wrote this plugin was for myself, I’ve released because I felt some other admins felt the same about those toolbar/links stuff – the feedback and the downloads I got so far seem to speak for itself. I’d never expected this exposure to be honest.

    All the features you are describing make sense it itself – so don’t get me wrong – but it would be way better to have such functionality in an extra plugin! All functionality that goes beyond an admin being logged in, or anything regarding regular site visitors (frontend stuff) I don’t want in this particular plugin here.

    Reason for that is simple: to keep it focused on original purpose, to make support easer for both sides and to make development more streamlined. In my opinion it’s better to have more streamlined plugins to one ore very few tasks than to have “one-in-all-approach”.

    The only real feature – beyond a bit more extended plugin support – will be an additional toolbar menu (optional) for administrators (not super admins) but only in multisite. I got this user requests and it makes sense in a lot of cases to have this.

    For your requests there a lot of other – better – plugin optins out there if I understood you correctly.
    – numerous registration “helper” plugins, even premium stuff at other marketplaces
    – numerous cloning/ migration plugins here on www.ads-software.com as well as on other plugin shops/ marketplaces

    Regarding a “global network wide menu”:
    For the admin/ network admin you can already do that thing with my super admin toolbar menu support (just create in regular Nav Menus, then set menu location to MSTBA).

    For a global frontend menu, I guess this is not possible at the moment because of the structure and restrictions of how WordPress handles its Multisite functionality. The only thing I know of are a few network wide widgets. But there’s nothing too fancy I’ve seen so far. You could only do some hardcoded menu…?!?

    I really hope so myself that we will see far more extended functionality in regards of Multisite & Network Wide functionality.

    Thanks, Dave ??

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