[wp-hackers] Multisite Users and 500 Server Errors

[Sam Hotchkiss]

Hey Jesse-- I'm having a similar issue with a very similar site network to
Astonish (the one I was telling you about at WC PVD), and am working on a
plugin which should be ready next week to help address.

I'll send it over when I've got it ready, maybe you can use it as a
starting point to set up what you need?

-- 
Sam Hotchkiss :: Principal :: Hotchkiss Consulting Group
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Jesse Friedman <me at jes.se.com> wrote:

> 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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> >>> Mika A Epstein (aka Ipstenu)
> >>> http://ipstenu.org | http://halfelf.org
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