[wp-hackers] Multisite Users and 500 Server Errors

[Jesse Friedman]

We have about 12 writers, and 15 customer service reps. It's not so much
the issue of having too many users. It's that the one user can't be a user
on too many sites. Once we add 1 person to 50 plus sites we run into
issues. Somewhere around the 100 site mark we get 500 Server Errors for non
stop


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org> wrote:

> How many editors do you have ghost writing?
>
> If it's a matter of too many users on too many accounts, what about making
> a Ghost Writer account, and giving JUST that account access to all the
> sites? Then you tell people to log in as that account to write posts. It's
> obviously not a perfect solution, as it removes accountability per-person,
> but it may stop the server issue.
>
> The other option would be to not have your ghost writers log in to WP, but
> I doub't that'd be sustainable either.
>
> Jesse Friedman wrote:
>
>>
>> Mika, thank you for taking the time respond
>>
>> They just need to be able to access all sites. They ghost write for all of
>> our clients. We have 500+ sites now and grow by 10 a month. It's
>> impossible
>> to manage user access by giving editors an editor role in each and every
>> site.
>>
>> The other issue with that, is as I mentioned causing major server issues.
>>
>> Jesse
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Mika A Epstein<ipstenu at ipstenu.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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/<http://wordpress.org/plugins/**extended-super-admins/>
>>>> <http:/**/wordpress.org/plugins/**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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