<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Hi Laurie,</div><div><br></div><div>This is Neel Shah from NYU. We do something similar to what you asked for and allow users to create sites based on their university affiliation. You can find an overview of it in the Jennifer sent. </div><div><br></div><div>Feel free to reach out to me at <a href="mailto:shah.neel@nyu.edu">shah.neel@nyu.edu</a> if you have any questions. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Neel</div><div><br><div><br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div>On Jul 14, 2017, at 11:24 AM, Laurie Miles <<a href="mailto:lmiles@unca.edu">lmiles@unca.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Ronnie.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thank you for responding. I actually chatted with one of your WPMU DEV's support folks this morning. Her name is <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Katya Tsihotska. She is going to pursue this issue for me. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I don't think filtering our Active Directory for only certain users would work well, as all our faculty, staff, and students have the same email domain, and some users within all those roles would be eligible for one of our WordPress sites.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I hope this makes sense.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thank you.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Laurie</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font style="font-family:georgia,serif" size="2"><i><b>Laurie B. Miles</b></i></font><br>Instructional Technology Specialist <br><a href="http://tlt.unca.edu" target="_blank">TLT Resources</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> | <a href="http://library.unca.edu/digital_scholarship" target="_blank">Digital Scholarship Team Ramsey Library</a> | </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span></span><a href="http://www.unca.edu" target="_blank">UNC Asheville</a></span><br></div><div><a href="mailto:lmiles@unca.edu" target="_blank">lmiles@unca.edu</a> |828-251-6630<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Ronnie Burt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:burtrw@gmail.com" target="_blank">burtrw@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Laurie,<div><br></div><div>I manage the education and hosting services at WPMU DEV (and our sister service, CampusPress). I agree, the Pro Sites plugin may not be designed for this need. I'd be happy to chat about that. I know that for many of our customers, we are able to leverage attributes in something like Active Directory or Shibboleth to limit site creation to certain groups, like just faculty/staff. Perhaps that might be useful for you?</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Ronnie</div></font></span></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 9:15 AM Laurie Miles <<a href="mailto:lmiles@unca.edu" target="_blank">lmiles@unca.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">We are running a WordPress multisite and would like to automate the creation of sites. Our goal is to limit who can create a site while still allowing the user to connect to the wp-signup.php form for automated site registration. We've configured our system so that users who have a university email address will be able to log into the system, and once logged in, create sites. However, our campus policy limits who on the campus can get a WordPress site in our network.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Has anyone set up this type of system, and do you have any suggestions for how we can make it work? I am trying the WPMU DEV Pro Sites plugin, but it's not really intended for this purpose and I'm worried it may cause unwanted anomalies. </div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">I appreciate any advice you can offer. FYI - I'm new at coding and our budget is tight!</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Thank you.</div><div class="gmail_default">Laurie</div></div>
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