Comments on: Toggle Admin Menus Sitewide

By: Terence

Terence — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:26:56 +0000

Hi David,
Thanks for looking into this so quickly. That’s awesome! I tested out the newest download and was able to duplicate what you found. Now, there is only only 1 hidden menu that is showing in firefox and ie 8. I will keep testing it out and provide feedback as much as possible. I’ll keep checking back here for the latest version. Thanks for your hard work!
Terence

By: dsader

dsader — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:14:28 +0000

Terence, indeed some changes needed to be made in the plugin. However, if any other plugin adds a sumenu to Settings, say, the “unnamed menu” appears again, but not in Safari.

I still have not found why it differs under Safari vs. Firefox, curious.

The left menu works as expected, but the adminbar code builds the menus differently, dynamically – I have to look at that more closely.
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I have fiddled away for a few hours and am no closer to a complete solution other than to avoid using the built in adminbar in place of a hardcoded mu-plugin adminbar substitute.

I’ve uploaded what I’ve done so far. http://wpmudev.org/project/Menus

By: Terence

Terence — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:17:20 +0000

Hi Dsader
This is an awesome plugin but am having 1 major problem. When I disable wp-backend menus from the interface with this plugin, only the text disappears but the arrow-drop down menu on the admin bar remains thus providing access to areas of the site I previously deemed hidden. This error occurs in Firefox 3, and IE 8, but not in Google Chrome or Safari. View my video to see exactly what I am talking about and let me know if you have any ideas. http://screencast.com/t/jqrqQ0IM

I am using wpmu 2.7 — Thanks
Terence

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By: webmaestro

webmaestro — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:58:03 +0000

That might be a direction to go. I’ve got many levels of users, some of which I want to be able to see the THEMES menu item (admins) or the PLUGINS menu item (admins, editors), while there are some items I wouldn’t want anyone to see (DELETE BLOG).

This looks like a great addition to the WPMU repertoire! Thank you for your hard work!

By: dsader

dsader — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:53:41 +0000

webmaestro, default capabilities/roles are left as is. I use this plugin to turn off/on menus for all.

By: webmaestro

webmaestro — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:26:44 +0000

Does this allow Site Admins to limit menus by Role? For example, I’d like ‘Administrators’ to see the ‘Themes’ menu, but not ‘Contributors’ or ‘Editors’…

By: Nemo

Nemo — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:30:23 +0000

@dsader: thank you. I just read your answer and I am going to try. I’ll let you know.

By: Boonika

Boonika — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:18:16 +0000

Tried WPLite. Works great. I only tried setting it for Blog Admin (which is exactly what I need). But I think that I’ll stick to my previous solution cause I want to have menus disabled by default. Yes, Plugin Commander activates WPLite for every new blog created but I still have to disable menus manually. That’s why I’ll use your pre-menusplugin-code in combination with Plugin Commander. That way, all new blogs will have disabled menus by default and if I want to enable some menus for some Blog Admins I’ll simply write a new plugin, and activate it. Of course, before that, I’ll deactivate the old one. So I plan to have 3-4 plugins (every one of them disabling different menus) for 3-4 types of Blog Admins. So, (I hope) you see now why ‘enabling/disabling menus per blog’ would be cool extra feature for your plugin. But I understand that different MU admins have different needs. Thanks for your hard work. Cheers.