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okay.. I start from your last poing: I dont want to assign them admin rights because they all never used nor managed a WP site.. and if they have access to settings like permalinks, or the plugins’ settings, they may change something critical.. and that is why I want to allow them only to post posts and pages, and change basic settings like how comments are shown etc..

For instance, I installed Authors widget which displays a photo of the author in the sidebar. If a user is not an admin he dont have access to widges, and therefore can’t add his image when he first enters the dashboard. if he is an admin he can, but he may also play and tamper with the other settings..
So what is the solution to this?
Regarding your saying:
They will have access to all NON-Network Activated plugins

you seem to be sure since you capitalized the “NON” but I still have to ask, arent they supposed to have access to plugins which I Network activate and not the ones which are NON-Network activated !?

Anybody??

I actually had to roll back to AIO SEO. I just won’t re-fill all the SEO data all over again.. shame that it is due to lack of cooperation by the creators

Any kind of help is appreciated !!

BTW, Role Scoper plugin does not work with admin dashboard modules, but on posts, pages, links cats, etc.

Capability Manager works from within a specific child blog’s dashboard, not the network admin’s dashboard.

Side question, how can I make a plugin’s configuration appear on the network admin dash and not in a child admin’s dash? like Capability Manager, to restrict the access of blog admins on site-wide ?

I forgot. There are other things that I need. default categories for every new blog, default set of pages (about me, CV, contact me, etc).

There is the plugin called New Blog Defaults, but it only sets configurations, not posts, pages, etc (content).

p.s. any other tips / reminders/ recommendatinos regarding WP NET are really really appreciated .. not matter how small they are !

Thank you esmi. I learnt that WP Network is smart enough to automatically make any changes to themes blog-dependent, namely, if blogs X+Y use same theme (Z), and a theme change was done on blog X, the change will not appear on blog Y as well.. That is cool.

But the question now is, there are certain things that I want hard-coded into the theme, the default widgets, for instance. How can I make changes to the theme which would be reflected in all blogs?
Same question applies to plugins. If I set up plugin X, how can I activate it on ALL blogs? Then, how can I set its default settings which I want to be in action on all blogs ???

I will certainly take it into consideration. Thank you Andrea and Ipstenu.