Quick Access to Super Admin Resources - Time Saver!
This small and lightweight plugin just adds some missed and very useful admin links to your Toolbar / Admin Bar in Multisite installs, and even regular single site installs.
Also included is support for some awesome, useful third-party plugins out of the box. So you might just switch from the backend or frontend of your site to the 'Network Wide Plugins' or access the 'Nav Menu' Settings of a sub site/blog. To make you even more happy, the plugin also works just perfectly in single WordPress installs (non-Multisite context), just fewer menu items then... ---> Use this time saver and get quicker access :-)
NOTE: This plugin is
only intended towards Super Admins / Admins.
General Features & Benefits -- Global Usage
- Add a Custom Nav Menu to the toolbar via WP Menu system - great for instructions for your staff members or other resources... (see FAQ for more...)
- Recommended in Multisite: to use the main site for this (but menu is available globally)
- Only visible and accessable for Super Admins (Multisite context) or for Site Admins (non-Multisite context)!
- Plugin is fully internationalized, English & German language files included by default :)
- Fully WPML compatible!
Multisite Network Specific Features & Benefits
- Network wide Plugins
- Network wide Themes (plus Theme Editor)
- Network Settings, Updates, plus Site Upgrade
- Special "+ New" (new content) section, like on site dashboards, but only for Network admin with Network specific items!
- Extra special Custom Nav Menu vieable for Site Admins but only editable for Super Admins, setup via WP Menu system, see FAQ for more....
- Multisite aware plugin support, to date for: WP Super Cache, WP-Piwik, WPMS Site Maintenance Mode, Code Snippets, BackWPup, User Management Tools, Network Mass Email, Organizational Message Notifier, Snapshot (premium), Ultimate Branding (premium), Login Security Solution, Smart Admin Tweaks (premium), Smart Cleanup Tools (premium), Smart Options Optimizer (premium), Simple System Info (premium), Smart Security Tools (premium), Hide My WP (premium), Blog Copier, NS Cloner, NS Cloner Pro, Multisite Robots.txt Manager, WordPress MU Domain Mapping, WP Migrate DB Pro (premium), WPMS Admin Reports
(Sub) Site Specific Features & Benefits
- Widgets
- Nav Menus, including list of editable Nav Menus!
- Manage Content: Media Library / Edit Posts / Edit Pages
- Theme Editor (also detects Multisite network-admin!), great for fast editions on the fly... -- also includes "Customizer", plus "Custom Background" and "Custom Header"!
- (Site specific) Plugin support, to date for: Howdy Tweaks, Cachify, Hyper Cache, Hyper Cache Extended, Limit Login Attempts, WP-Optimize, Installer (by WMPL.org Team), Code With WP Code Snippets, Toolbox Modules, Relevanssi & Relevanssi Premium, Multisite Language Switcher, Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions, Widget Settings Importer/Exporter, Tabify Edit Screen, Restrict Widgets, P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler), Codestyling Localization, WP Migrate DB, Go Sidebar Wizard (premium), Stream, Snitch
Included Plugin Support
Out of the box the plugin supports the following other plugins' admin menu links in the Toolbar if installed and activated:
- "WP Super Cache" (free, by Donncha O Caoimh) - also network wide
- "WP-Piwik" (free, by André Bräkling) - also network wide
- "WPMS Site Maintenance Mode" (free, 7 Media Web Solutions, LLC) - also network wide
- "User Management Tools" (free, by scribu/AppThemes) - also network wide
- "Network Mass Email" (free, Kenny Zaron) - also network wide
- "Organizational Message Notifier" (free, Zaantar) - also network wide
- "Code Snippets" (free, by Shea Bunge) - also network wide
- "BackWPup" (free, by Daniel Hüsken) - also network wide - v3.x plus older v2.x branch supported!
- "Snapshot" (premium, by Paul Menard (Incsub)/ WPMU DEV) - also network wide
- "Ultimate Branding" (premium, by Incsub Team/ WPMU DEV) - also network wide
- "Smart Admin Tweaks v3.0+" (premium, by Smart Plugins/ Milan Petrovic) - also network wide
- "Smart Cleanup Tools v4.0+" (premium, by Smart Plugins/ Milan Petrovic) - also network wide
- "Smart Security Tools" (premium, by Smart Plugins/ Milan Petrovic) - also network wide
- "Smart Options Optimizer" (premium, by Smart Plugins/ Milan Petrovic) - also network wide
- "Simple System Info" (premium, by Smart Plugins/ Milan Petrovic) - also network wide
- "Hide My WP" (premium, by Hassan Jahangiri) - also network wide
- "Better WP Security" (free, by Chris Wiegman & iThemes) - also network wide
- "Login Security Solution" (free, by Daniel Convissor) - also network wide
- "Blog Copier" (free, by Modern Tribe, Inc.) - network wide
- "NS Cloner - Site Copier" (free, by Never Settle) - network wide
- "NS Cloner Pro" (premium, by Never Settle) - network wide
- "WP Migrate DB Pro" (premium, by Delicious Brains (Brad Touesnard & Chris Aprea)) - network wide
- "Multisite Robots.txt Manager" (free, by tribalNerd) - network only!
- "WordPress MU Domain Mapping" (free, by Donncha O Caoimh, Ron Rennick, Automatic Inc.) - network only!
- "WPMS Admin Reports" (free, by Joe Motacek) - network only! (MU Plugin!)
- "Multisite Language Switcher" (free, Dennis Ploetner)
- "Howdy Tweaks" (free, by Kailey Lampert)
- "Cachify" (free, by Sergej Müller)
- "Hyper Cache" (free, by Stefano Lissa)
- "Hyper Cache Extended" (free, by Martin Lazarov)
- "Limit Login Attempts" (free, by Johan Eenfeldt)
- "Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions" (free, by Rolf van Gelder)
- "WP-Optimize" (free, by Ruhani Rabin)
- "Installer (WPRC Installer)" (free, by OnTheGoSystems, Inc. (WPML.org team))
- "Code With WP Code Snippets" (free, by Thomas Griffin) (plugin currently in beta, hosted at GitHub)
- "Toolbox Modules" (free, by Sergej Müller) - see also his plugin instructions
- "Relevanssi" (free) and "Relevanssi Premium" (premium) both by Mikko Saari
- "Widget Settings Importer/Exporter" (free, by Kevin Langley, Sean McCafferty, Mark Parolisi)
- "Tabify Edit Screen" (free, by Marko Heijnen)
- "Restrict Widgets" (free, by Digital Factory)
- "P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)" (free, by GoDaddy.com)
- "Codestyling Localization" (free, by Heiko Rabe)
- "WP Migrate DB" (free, by Brad Touesnard)
- "Go - Sidebar Wizard" (premium, by Granth)
- "Stream" (free, by X-Team)
- "Snitch" (free, by Sergej Müller)
Be a Contributor
If you want to translate, go to the Translation Portal at
translate.wordpress.org.
You can also contribute code-wise via our
Multisite Toolbar Additions GitHub Repository - and see where you can help.
Support
- If you have any more questions, visit our support on the Plugin's Forum.
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Installation Steps
- Installing alternatives:
- via Admin Dashboard: Go to 'Plugins > Add New', search for "Multisite Toolbar Additions", click "install"
- OR via direct ZIP upload: Upload the ZIP package via 'Plugins > Add New > Upload' in your WP Admin
- OR via FTP upload: Upload
multisite-toolbar-additions
folder to the /wp-content/plugins/
directory
- In your Network Dashboard network activate the plugin through the (Network) 'Plugins' menu -- or in a sub site dashboard: per-site activate this plugin through the (Site) 'Plugins' menu
- Look at your toolbar / admin bar within the "My Sites" menu and enjoy using the new links there :)
- If you want you could add a special custom Nav Menu via "Design > Menus" (best if using the main site of your Network for that) and assign it to the new "Multisite Toolbar Menu" menu location (only visible & accessable for Super Admins!). (See FAQ here for more instructions)
- Go and manage your Multisite Network :)
Please note, this plugin requires WordPress 3.3 or higher in order to work!
Also note: This plugin has NO settings page because I believe it's just not neccessarry. All customizing could be done via filters, constants and regular WordPress user roles & capabilities. As the plugin is only indended for a Super Admin (Network Admin) usage - that's the way to go. This way we can save the overhaul of an options panel/settings page, additional database requests, uninstall routines and such. End result: a lightweight system that just works and saves clicks & time :-).
Multisite install: Of course, it's fully compatible but have a look in the
FAQ section here for more info :)
Single install: The plugin WILL also working like a charm for regular non-Multisite installs - just without the network specific stuff. However, there's still A LOT (single) site specific stuff supported. So it's up to your use case :). -- I for myself use this plugin on each and every install because it SAVES ME A LOT OF CLICKS & TIME! ...and that was the very reason I've developed it, yeah :-)
Own translation/wording: For custom and update-secure language files please upload them to
/wp-content/languages/multisite-toolbar-additions/
(just create this folder) - This enables you to use fully custom translations that won't be overridden on plugin updates. Also, complete custom English wording is possible with that, just use a language file like
multisite-toolbar-extras-en_US.mo/.po
to achieve that (for creating one see the tools on "Other Notes").
⚡ 2.0.1 - 2019-09-23
- Tweak: Updated bundled library DDWlib Plugin Installer Recommendations to latest version (v1.5.0) - better performance due to the use of transients
- Tweak: Minor code improvements
🎉 2.0.0 - 2019-05-04
- New: Successfully tested with WordPress 5.2
- New: Dedicated Theme and Plugin ZIP Uploader pages
- New: Enhanced Theme and Plugin Installer items in Toolbar (New Content Group)
- New: Integrated with WordPress 5.2+ new Site Health feature: Multisite Toolbar Additions now has an extra section on the Debug Info tab - this is especially helpful for support requests
- Tweak: Smaller internal improvements
- Tweak: Updated bundled library DDWlib Plugin Installer Recommendations to latest version (v1.4.0) - feature updates
- Tweak: Updated
.pot
file plus all German translations (formal, informal) and language packs
- New: Join my newsletter for DECKERWEB WordPress Plugins - insider info, plus tutorials and more useful stuff
⚡ 1.9.4 - 2018-11-03
- Tweak: Updated bundled library DDWlib Plugin Installer Recommendations to latest version (v1.2.0) - which brings enhanced CSS styles, including for the "Dark Mode" plugin
- Tweak: Few internal code tweaks and improvements
⚡ 1.9.3 - 2018-10-01
- New: Created special Facebook Group for user community support for all plugins from me (David Decker - DECKERWEB), this one here included! ;-) - please join at facebook!
- Update: Small internal code improvements
- Update: Updated bundled library DDWlib Plugin Installer Recommendations to latest version (v1.1.0) - which brings smaller additions and enhancements, like CSS styles to the upload areas and plugin cards, plus plugin version number on plugin cards
- Update:
.pot
file plus all German translations (formal, informal) and language packs
⚡ 1.9.2 - 2018-09-08
- New: Added plugin update message also to Plugins page (overview table)
- Update: Fixed and improved various Plugins page links for Super Admins within the Admin area
- Update: Fixed CSS class name in the admin
- Update: Fixed wrong textdomain for one string
- Update: Improved plugin installer recommendations
- Update:
.pot
file for translators, plus German translations
⚡ 1.9.1 - 2018-08-22
- New: Added first language packs via WordPress.org translations platform - for German (de_DE - informal) and German Formal (de_DE_formal) - thanks to Team WordPress DE! ;-)
- New: Added
composer.json
file to the plugin's root folder - this is great for developers using Composer
- New: Added
README.md
file for plugin's GitHub.com repository to make it more readable there
- Fix: Fatal error related to to Network Admin/ Multisite context.
- Removed: Plugin support for "Quick Cache" was removed as this plugin is no longer existing
- Update: Some smaller code tweaks and improvements
- Update:
.pot
file for translators, plus German translations
- Update: Readme.txt file
- Trivia fact: this plugin is now 6 (six!) years old. Whoa, that's a lot. ;-)
🎉 1.9.0 - 2018-04-01
- Maintenance release
- Tweak: Improved security.
- Tweak: Updated all internal plugin links to current state, deleted the ones that were dead or no longer needed.
- Tweak: Added new plugin icon and banner on WordPress.org
- Update:
.pot
file for translators, plus German translations
- Update: Readme.txt file.
🎉 1.8.0 - 2014-10-20
- Unreleased - private beta version!
- NEW: Added support for more (custom) post types in the "Manage Content" section.
- NEW: Added "Widget Customizer" admin deep link for WordPress 3.9+.
- UPDATE: Updated plugin installer & uploader admin links to be compatible with WordPress 4.0+.
- UPDATE: Updated theme installer & uploader admin links to be compatible with WordPress 3.9+.
- UPDATE: Updated labels for Super Admin/ Admin custom menus within the "Customizer".
- UPDATE: Updated German translations and also the .pot file for all translators!
- Extended plugin support:
- NEW: Added support for "Smart Security Tools: Login Limit Add-On" (premium, by Smart Plugins/ Milan Petrovic).
- NEW: Added support for "Smart Security Tools: Live Monitor Add-On" (premium, by Smart Plugins/ Milan Petrovic).
- NEW: Added support for "Smart Robots.txt Tools" (premium, by Smart Plugins/ Milan Petrovic).
- NEW: Added support for "iThemes Security" (free, by iThemes).
- NEW: Added support for "iThemes Security Pro" (premium, by iThemes).
- UPDATE: Updated and improved support for these plugins: "Snapshot", "Smart Security Tools", "Smart Options Optimizer", "Simple System Info", "Stream", "Quick Cache Pro".
⚡ 1.7.1 - 2014-04/05
- Unreleased - private beta version!
🎉 1.7.0 - 2014-03-04
- NEW: Highly improved "Nav Menu" support, all editable menus are now listed as sub level items for "Menus" entry. (Could be disabled via constant if needed.)
- NEW: As per user request I added an additional restricted Site Administrators toolbar menu. This is only effective in Multisite installs. Those menus can only be setup & edited via WP Nav Menus by Super Administrators - but then they are visible for administrator user roles (
edit_theme_options
capability).
- NEW: For Multisite, under "Plugins" added "Network Plugins" admin link for sub site admin areas - handy link to network wide plugins page.
- NEW: For Multisite, under "Themes" added "Network Theme Editor" admin link (respects all Editor disable stuff, hehe! :) for sub site admin areas - handy link to theme editor if needed.
- NEW: Added new logic to prevent other users than super admins from editing those custom (nav) menus that are used within the Toolbar.
- UPDATE: Removed all CSS that was added in v1.5.0 -- it was annoying and should not longer be there for WordPress 3.8 or higher. I guess this is finally for the better! :)
- UPDATE: Fixed double appearance of "Themes" and "Plugins" in Network Admin sublevel - now fixed for all instances :).
- CODE: Improved modular structure of the plugin for better maintenance and performance.
- CODE: Code and documentation tweaks and improvements.
- UPDATE: Extended and improved readme.txt file here.
- UPDATE: Updated German translations and also the .pot file for all translators!
- Extended plugin support:
- NEW: Added support for "Stream" (free, by X-Team).
- NEW: Added support for "Snitch" (free, by Sergej Müller).
- NEW: Added support for "WPMS Admin Reports" (free, by Joe Motacek).
- UPDATE: Updated and improved support for these plugins: "WP Migrate DB Pro".
Older Changelogs
See packaged
changelog.txt
file in the plugin folder.