[Plugin: Custom Content Type Manager] Multisite

I guess I am just having a problem getting my head around how to limit the permissions of the users. The owners of each site will be administrators but also generally novice users that really don’t need to see the much of the inner workings of the site. I would only like them to be able to see the actual custom post type but not have the ability to create new post types or custom fields.

Yes it is a bit tricky. There is a super admin in multisite but it doesn’t seem to help me much.

I absolutely love your plugin but it looks like I might have to write my own to handle this scenario. I will be using yours many times in my single site installations in the future.

Well commenting out the <strong>add_action('admin_menu','CCTM::create_admin_menu');</strong> line of code worked but I’m not sure if I will be able to use this approach. This particular multisite installation will be designed so that users can automatically create their own sites and we are anticipating over 1000 sites to be created.

Maybe I could use a site clone plugin to create each site.

The users (creators) of these sites will have very little knowledge if at all. They basically are after pre designed sites that they can plug their information into. Basically I am needing to provide a custom post/page type that provides the structure to input horse pedigrees. There are pedigree plugins but they are pretty ‘nasty’ in their implementation and output. At the moment I already have around 500 people who who have signed up as being interested in the type of “canned” to advertise their horse businesses.

I haven’t tried the “manage-network” permissions yet but hope to get a chance tomorrow.

OK …. got it. Since you pointed me to the code used to display the Custom Content Types admin menu I just encased it in `if(is_super_admin() )’ like this:

if (is_super_admin() ) {
		// Main menu item
		add_menu_page(
			__('Manage Custom Content Types', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN),  // page title
			__('Custom Content Types', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN),      // menu title
			'manage_options',              // capability
			'cctm',            // menu-slug (should be unique)
			'CCTM::page_main_controller',        // callback function
			CCTM_URL .'/images/gear.png',        // Icon
			self::menu_position         // menu position
		);

		add_submenu_page(
			'cctm',          // parent slug (menu-slug from add_menu_page call)
			__('CCTM Custom Fields', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN),  // page title
			__('Custom Fields', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN),   // menu title
			'manage_options',        // capability
			'cctm_fields',         // menu_slug: cf = custom fields
			'CCTM::page_main_controller'     // callback function
		);

		add_submenu_page(
			'cctm',         // parent slug (menu-slug from add_menu_page call)
			__('CCTM Global Settings', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN),  // page title
			__('Global Settings', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN),   // menu title
			'manage_options',       // capability
			'cctm_settings',       // menu_slug
			'CCTM::page_main_controller'    // callback function
		);

		/*
		add_submenu_page(
			'cctm', 								// parent slug (menu-slug from add_menu_page call)
			__('CCTM Themes', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN), 		// page title
			__('Themes', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN), 			// menu title
			'manage_options', 						// capability
			'cctm_themes',  						// menu_slug
			'CCTM::page_main_controller' 			// callback function
		);
*/

		add_submenu_page(
			'cctm',         // parent slug (menu-slug from add_menu_page call)
			__('CCTM Tools', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN),   // page title
			__('Tools', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN),    // menu title
			'manage_options',       // capability
			'cctm_tools',        // menu_slug
			'CCTM::page_main_controller'    // callback function
		);

		/*
		add_submenu_page(
			'cctm', 								// parent slug (menu-slug from add_menu_page call)
			__('CCTM Information', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN), // page title
			__('Info', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN), 			// menu title
			'manage_options', 						// capability
			'cctm_info', 							// menu_slug
			'CCTM::page_main_controller' 			// callback function
		);
*/

		/*
		add_submenu_page(
			'cctm',				 					// parent slug (menu-slug from add_menu_page call)
			__('CCTM Store', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN), 		// page title
			__('Store', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN), 			// menu title
			'manage_options', 						// capability
			'cctm_store', 							// menu_slug
			'CCTM::page_main_controller' 			// callback function
		);

		add_submenu_page(
			'cctm',				 					// parent slug (menu-slug from add_menu_page call)
			__('CCTM Help', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN), 		// page title
			__('Help', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN), 			// menu title
			'manage_options', 						// capability
			'cctm_help',					 		// menu_slug
			'CCTM::page_main_controller' 			// callback function
		);

	add_submenu_page(
		'themes.php'
		, _x('Editor', 'theme editor')
		, _x('Editor', 'theme editor')
		, 'edit_themes'
		, 'theme-editor.php');
	add_submenu_page(
		$ptype_obj->show_in_menu,
		$ptype_obj->labels->name,
		$ptype_obj->labels->all_items,
		$ptype_obj->cap->edit_posts
		, "edit.php?post_type=$ptype" );

*/
		// print '<pre>'; print_r(self::$data); print '</pre>'; exit;
		// Add Custom Fields links
		if (self::get_setting('show_custom_fields_menu')) {
			foreach ($active_post_types as $post_type) {
				$parent_slug = 'edit.php?post_type='.$post_type;
				if ($post_type == 'post') {
					$parent_slug = 'edit.php';
				}
				add_submenu_page(
					$parent_slug
					, __('Custom Fields', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN)
					, __('Custom Fields', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN)
					, 'manage_options'
					, 'cctm&a=list_pt_associations&pt='.$post_type
					, 'CCTM::page_main_controller'
				);
			}
		}

		// Add Settings links
		if (self::get_setting('show_settings_menu')) {
			foreach ($active_post_types as $post_type) {
				$parent_slug = 'edit.php?post_type='.$post_type;
				if ( in_array($post_type, self::$reserved_post_types) ) {
					continue;
				}
				add_submenu_page(
					$parent_slug
					, __('Settings', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN)
					, __('Settings', CCTM_TXTDOMAIN)
					, 'manage_options'
					, 'cctm&a=edit_post_type&pt='.$post_type
					, 'CCTM::page_main_controller'
				);
			}
		}
		}
	}

Now I just have to figure out how to automatically use pass the Pedigree custom post type to a new site when it is created. Any ideas?

Also, since the change in my code will probably be changed when you update the plugin will a wordpress override work on it?