[Liz Brown]

Hi, it’s been over a week since my last newbie question, so here is the latest. I am getting close to releasing the “members only” part of the MUSE Commons site (for our member publishers), and I just realized that under “My Sites” under “Blogs” (the Site tracking directory), my test user account sees one of the blogs the account is a member of, but not the other. Both sites are in the “my sites” pull down from the toolbar,  but from a user perspective, especially a user new to all this wordpress stuff, it seems that “my sites” should be the same from the toolbar AND the site directory.

I went through all my various test accounts (mostly set up through the “invite anyone”) and I noticed it was the same thing, except for two accounts, which were set up manually where a login and password is sent to the user….and these two accounts had “MUSE Commons” listed (and one had an additional test blog listed). That’s strange…

I went through the 2 site’s settings side by side, and they were the same. They are both “groupblogs” so I uncoupled one of the blogs from the group (since I already have a problem where groupblogs don’t show up in the “recent networkwide blog posts”), but it still didn’t show up in the “My Sites” in the site directory.

Before I go any further in trying to isolate what might be going on, I thought I should ask the experts! Perhaps there is something simple I am not thinking of?? I’d like to avoid confusion as much as possible for my soon-to-be-real users!

Thanks so much in advance!

Liz

 

 

 

 

 

[Ray]

Hi Liz,

The “My Sites” WP Toolbar menu lists all sites that the user is a member of even if that user only has the role of “Subscriber”. This is a WordPress thing.

However, the sites listed on a user’s “Sites” page lists sites that the user is a member of only if their role is greater than “Subscriber”. This is a BuddyPress thing.

I can definitely see the discrepancy issue.

I had a similar request on a site I work on to make the “My Sites” WP Toolbar menu match a user’s “Sites” page.

However, there is a problem. Removing sites that a user is a subscriber on in the WP Toolbar can potentially be database-intensive depending on the number of sites a user has according to WordPress.

Therefore, I wrote a plugin that only removes the current blog and the main BuddyPress blog for the user if the user does not have the capability to edit posts on these blogs.

If you are interested in using this plugin, you can find it here:
https://gist.github.com/r-a-y/551204c633ab1720465f

Download it and place it in /wp-content/mu-plugins/

Hope that clarifies things. Let me know if you have any other questions.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 5 months ago by Ray.

[Liz Brown]

Hi, @r-a-y, thanks so much for this helpful answer! Now it all makes sense. Since the sites are going to be private, I am happy with them displaying from the My Sites in the toolbar so that the users can find the sites. (I am using a plugin that would allow me to remove the My Sites altogether, but what I think I need is something that would allow me to change the label to some different wording. Hmm).

But the most interesting thing was, I looked and realized that indeed, the user accounts that can see one of the blogs under “My Sites” in the site tracking directory are set as “Author” for that blog. I am really glad I discovered this, as I only intend everyone to be subscribers!

I’ll have to do some user education on the difference in the meaning of “My Sites” in the two places, but at least I know I’m not crazy and imagining weird things on my site. Thanks so much! This is SO helpful.

Liz

 

 

• This reply was modified 10 years, 5 months ago by Liz Brown.

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