Beyond Multisite – Utilities for WordPress Network Admins

Description

Short Description Beyond Multisite helps WordPress multisite network administrators to better control protect and clean their network Features Plugin Control Module view documentation Network disable plugins Disabled plugins are hidden from site administrators on the plugins screen so they cannot activate deactivate Site enable plugins to allow plugin activation deactivation for only some sites Bulk activate deactivate plugins Target all or some sites by ID Cleanup Module view documentation Bulk delete comments Target all or some sites by ID Target sites with at least X comments Delete comments based on age status or containing a URL Bulk delete revisions Target all or some sites by ID Leave recent revisions Bulk delete sites Target empty or old sites Target by attribute or site ID Permanent or soft deletion Delete now or schedule a future deletion Notify site admins for a scheduled deletion and allow cancellation Choose maximum email notification sending speed Bulk delete leftover database tables They belong to permanently deleted sites Bulk delete users by role Delete users without any role Delete users with only a specific role or roles who don t have other roles Supports custom roles Can only affect all sites no site selection Bulk delete scheduled actions of the action scheduler plugin Target actions by status on all sites or by site ID Also delete action logs Copy Maker Module view documentation Copy Sites Fully duplicate a site except the main site Internal links are updated to the new site URL A detailed debug log is generated Automatically replace newly created sites with a copy of a template site Options to copy or not users site title site admin email Internal links are updated and a log is generated like in normal site copying The Super Administrator chooses the template site in the options not the user and it cannot be the main site Activated in Module view documentation View sites that have activated a plugin View sites that have activated a theme Pending Users Module view documentation Manage non-activated signups Activate signup Resend activation email Delete signup Search by username or email Ban Users Module view documentation View user last IP address and country Quick links to IP blacklist information sites Find users with the same IP address as a chosen user Ban users and their IP address The ban denies login signup and commenting Ban permanently or for 7 30 or 90 days Users must login once while the plugin is active to detect IP Insert HTML Module view documentation Insert HTML globally Target all or some sites by ID Insert in head before head or footer before body Insert on front-end and or back-end Captcha Module view documentation Protect WordPress forms with a customizable captcha Easy to read by humans hard to read by spam bots Choose character set numbers letters or both Choose character count 3 4 or 5 Choose captcha image height 60 70 80 90 100 110 or 120 pixels Choose which forms to protect – Blog signup – User signup – Login – Lost password – Reset password – Comment Email Users Module view documentation Bulk send emails to multisite users Target users by ID or role including custom roles in all or some sites Unsubscribe via a link or a profile setting Shortcodes for user names username user sites Choose maximum sending speed Emails are sent in small chunks Export email addresses to use elsewhere Improvements Module view documentation Various improvements Show user ID and site ID in the network users and sites pages Hide plugin meta version author etc from site administrators Automatically delete leftover database tables on permanent site deletion Show an icon for sites that disallow search engine indexing Show a role icon for each user site in the network users page Option to turn on off any of the improvements Client Reviews Translations Everything in Beyond Multisite except the log generated when copying a site is translatable A POT file is included Read translation instructions Completed Bulgarian translation files are also included Requirements WordPress 4 6 or higher WordPress multisite enabled FAQ Q Does it support Multi-Networks Networks of Multisite Networks A It has never been tested in such an environment Q Does the plugin create any cookies A No However if a future version starts using cookies I will mention it here and in the changelog Documentation Online documentation can be found here Icon License The circular flat icons used in some images on this page and in the video preview are licensed under GPL The source is Elegant Themes Any questions or suggestions Feel free to ask any questions or suggest features in the comments or via email nikolay nikolaydev com Tested Up To WordPress 6 6 PHP 8 2 8 Hire me to make a custom plugin for you You need something different Send me an email nikolay nikolaydev com Changelog Beyond Multisite 1 17 1 22 May 2024 FIXED PHP error sometimes on checking the sites a plugin is activated in if the active_plugins option value is not an array Beyond Multisite 1 17 0 2 May 2024 ADDED Bulk delete actions from the action scheduler via the network cleanup module ADDED Option to change the role of admin users after template site copy FIXED Incorrect preview captcha image on the plugin settings page in some situations due to browser cache UPDATED Language file Beyond Multisite 1 16 0 1 August 2023 ADDED Options to not copy the site title or admin email in the normal site copy process IMPROVED Removed or shortened some strings in the copy site log to reduce its size in the database FIXED Some PHP warnings and deprecations related to the Site Plugin Control page in PHP 8 1 and above UPDATED Language file Beyond Multisite 1 15 0 6 January 2023 ADDED Option to delete users by role or a list of roles including custom roles Only affects users that do not have any other roles Affects all sites ADDED The ability to export the site IDs or site URLs for the results of the Activated In module ADDED Option to copy a site into a new site instead of replacing existing one but it will use the template site copy settings ADDED The registration type column in the Pending Users table now shows if the user was added from the back-end of a site in the network It also shows from which site and as what role ADDED Hooks for developers to add extra fields to the site deletion form ADDED A new status for emails in the Email Users module called Sending emails This protects from potential double sending while being sent and not yet marked as sent ADDED A new sending mode for the Email Users module It is called Real-time mode and it does not use a cron job Instead it sends while you stay on the page IMPROVED No longer shows the whole query in the copy site log when replacing a URL in the options table since it can lead to big log data IMPROVED The bulk activate deactivate feature now shows a message that it is not compatible with the WP Rocket plugin IMPROVED Better support for persistant cache plugins since now we are clearing the WordPress cache after certain operations that needed it IMPROVED Better support for Windows based systems due to removing the DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant from the plugin code IMPROVED Automatically fixes the unsubscribe_url link attribute if WordPress adds a http prefix to it upon saving with the visual editor in the Email Users module IMPROVED Site deletion tasks and email users tasks now show the status of the cron jobs If the task is not doing anything it could be because the cron job was not created and now that is easier to find out IMPROVED The task statistics of the Email Users module now refreshes automatically while you stay on the page FIXED Incorrect detection of the base database table prefix for multisites that have a different base prefix than the main site prefix It was causing problems with a few of the modules for such multisites FIXED The HTTP version of HTTPS URLs from the site we are copying would not get replaced FIXED Incorrect loading progress data shown while exporting site IDs from a site deletion task Now also switched to showing a percent done instead of a number FIXED A PHP warning about an undefined array key in the improvements php file in some situations FIXED Some error situations would cause an endless loading without showing an error message Now they show an error FIXED The captcha will show an error now if it could not write the answer to the database FIXED Errors will be shown now on some pages if we detect that plugin database tables are missing instead of just returning empty results on some operations FIXED The ban users cron job was added without a function if the plugin was activated while the module was turned off UPDATED Language and documentation files Beyond Multisite 1 14 1 19 January 2022 IMPROVED Replaced most global variables with either constants or super global array elements to improve WP-CLI compatibility FIXED Tasks for emailing users or scheduling site deletions could not be created if there was an emoji in the email message that needs to be sent Beyond Multisite 1 14 0 5 January 2022 ADDED A WP-CLI command to copy a site It is described in the options of the Copy Maker module ADDED Some hooks in the be_mu_copy_sites_copy_for_seconds function to help developers copy a site with the function IMPROVED The site copy process now supports the blogmeta database table and copies the site meta data from there as well IMPROVED Some layout improvements in some module options and more clear wording on some places FIXED Sometimes wrong error count was shown inside the copy site log FIXED Sometimes it would show that the admin email was changed and waiting for confirmation after the site was replaced with a copy of another site FIXED The Insert HTML module did not insert the admin head code on the customizer pages UPDATED Language and documentation files Beyond Multisite 1 13 0 15 August 2021 ADDED An option to select multiple roles including custom roles in the Email Users module ADDED The ability to export a list of all affected emails instead of sending them an email in the Email Users module ADDED A new shortcode user_admin_sites_only_selected_sites in the Email Users module that shows only admin sites that are also selected by site ID in the user selection ADDED New options for the Copy Maker module do not copy media files from the template site do not copy posts pages categories tags or media files when normally copying a site IMPROVED Added the new Update URI plugin header so if a free plugin with the same name as this one is created in the WordPress repository it doesn t update and replace this one FIXED A plugin conflict that causes a fatal error about a call to undefined function wp_get_current_user when the plugin Rank Math Pro is activated without the free version being active first UPDATED Language and documentation files Beyond Multisite 1 12 0 2 January 2021 ADDED Options to not copy the posts pages categories or tags from the template site ADDED Shortcodes for the Email Users module that show the title or URL of the site where the user is an administrator or a list of all such sites ADDED The ability to delete all users that do not have a role in any site with the Cleanup Module ADDED An option to change the folder used to store captcha images in case there is a conflict with a CDN affecting the uploads folder IMPROVED Due to a bug in WP Ultimo the user table columns for ID Ban Status and Last IP were empty when WP Ultimo is active FIXED Incorrect comment counts shown on the comments page after comment cleanup on a site that uses WooCommerce FIXED Incorrect captcha preview image path after clicking the Update Preview button multiple times but still working in modern browsers FIXED A PHP warning when we cannot write in the plugin folder FIXED Some circular icons like the ones showing the Network Enable Disable status were vertically stretched on mobile devices FIXED When the GD PHP extension was not active on the server it would cause a PHP error Now it shows an error in the settings page FIXED On some servers people may get an error about an empty response after some actions even though they were successfully executed UPDATED Language and documentation files Beyond Multisite 1 11 0 3 June 2020 ADDED A new option in the Improvements module that allows you to automatically delete the leftover empty uploads folder of permanently deleted sites It is deleted upon site deletion only IMPROVED The captcha for the blog signup form for logged out visitors is now compatible with the WP Ultimo plugin tested with version 1 10 11 IMPROVED The Captcha module is now turned off by default affects only new installation of the plugin FIXED The Copy Maker module now works properly if your database name contains a dot But still it is strongly recommended that you don t use a dot in the database name or column names UPDATED Language and documentation files Beyond Multisite 1 10 0 4 January 2020 IMPROVED The values of the text boxes of the Insert HTML module are now encoded before the POST request and decoded before saved in the database This will prevent various security measures on some servers from blocking the request when they see that it contains JavaScript code IMPROVED The Improvements module now also stops email notifications about a changed password even when the WooCommerce form is used IMPROVED Reduced the maximum number or sites and users that the plugin affects by a single request when performing various actions from 5000 to 1000 This will reduce the load on the server and prevent an error on some servers with lower resources and thousands of sites users IMPROVED The phrases Any site ID and Any user ID have been replaced by Any site ID All sites and Any user ID All users so they are more clear that it means it affects all sites users and not just one ID IMPROVED A warning text added for the feature that deletes leftover database tables that it could produce a very slow MySQL query on some servers FIXED An error in older PHP versions produced by a misplaced closing bracket in the Ban Users module Parse error syntax error unexpected T_BOOLEAN_OR expecting in home example public_html wp-content plugins beyond-multisite includes ban-users php on line 470 UPDATED Language files Beyond Multisite 1 9 0 14 August 2019 ADDED An option in the Copy Maker module settings to choose a site we call it a template site to be copied into and replace newly created sites upon their creation ADDED An option to choose the IP address detection method in the Ban Users module settings IMPROVED The Copy Maker is now compatible with the PeepSo plugin and copies its files properly FIXED The Copy Maker now replaces properly the old URL in the site copy if the URL is stored encoded or escaped with slashes FIXED When the plugin list command is used in WP-CLI it now shows all plugins properly instead of only the ones that are not disabled with the Plugin Control module UPDATED Language and documentation files Beyond Multisite 1 8 0 7 May 2019 ADDED New deletion types when deleting sites with the Cleanup module Now you can mark sites as archived and also choose whether to change the last updated time or keep it the same FIXED The arrows to change the results page when viewing the scheduled or cancelled sites of a scheduled site deletion task were not working FIXED Sites with zero administrators were skipped when scheduling a site deletion task UPDATED Language and documentation files Beyond Multisite 1 7 0 3 May 2019 ADDED The ability to export the IDs or URLs of all the sites in the results box of previewing a cleanup task for comments revisions and sites A text file with comma-separated values is generated FIXED If you click the button to execute a cleanup task from inside the preview box with results and then cancel upon asked for confirmation and then change the page number it would now display the preview results as if the task was executed even though it is just a preview still FIXED When performing a scheduled site deletion task and using a maximum email sending speed higher than 240 per hour the user_sites shortcode in the notification email shows more sites than it should It includes other sites that are also scheduled for deletion but the notified user is not their admin UPDATED Language files Beyond Multisite 1 6 0 19 April 2019 ADDED New options for the Delete Sites section on the Network Cleanup page They allow you to ignore the default first post Hello World page Sample Page and comment when trying to affect sites with zero published posts pages or approved comments FIXED Incorrect confirmation message when executing a site deletion task present since version 1 5 0 UPDATED Language and documentation files Beyond Multisite 1 5 1 14 March 2019 FIXED When doing site cleanup and choosing Less than 1 day after registration for Last Updated an error for invalid data was shown Beyond Multisite 1 5 0 21 February 2019 ADDED An option to show text captcha instead of an image for the login form in order to reduce server load when there is a large number of attacks IMPROVED Now the captcha images are stored for much less time in order to reduce the number of generated files when there are many requests FIXED In some weird situations when WordPress temporarily does not return correct options data the plugin update function would be triggered and some settings would be lost Now there is a file fail-safe that stores the latest plugin version of the database information and prevents this FIXED WordPress fixed a bug in version 5 1 which affected site cleanup when certain options were selected Unfortunately all sites created before this are still affected I have removed the option to fix the time zone of the time of registration of the sites when performing site deletions and I have added a warning message visible when certain options are selected UPDATED Language and documentation files Beyond Multisite 1 4 0 27 December 2018 ADDED The ability to choose custom numerical values for many of the options on the Network Cleanup page instead of only choosing from predefined ones ADDED A new option in the Improvements module It shows an icon for each user role in the Sites column on the Network Users page ADDED A new option in the Improvements module It shows an icon in the top admin bar in the My Sites menu and in the My Sites page indicating which site has discouraged search engine indexing ADDED Buttons to go to the next or previous page from the set of results in various places in the plugins ADDED Two new links with IP address information on the screen for banning unbanning users IMPROVED When we failed to send a test email from the settings of the Cleanup module we now show an error IMPROVED The Ban Users module is turned off by default for new installations This will prevent unnecessary IP address data collection in the multisites of clients that are not using the module but also haven t turned it off IMPROVED The small icons with links to IP address information sites in the network users table are easier to touch on mobile devices added clickable padding around them IMPROVED The list of user sites which are shown in the email notification for a scheduled site deletion are now active links IMPROVED The default name of the sender of the email notification for a scheduled site deletion is now the network title instead of the title of the main site Affects new installations only IMPROVED The default email of the sender of the email notification for a scheduled site deletion is now the WordPress generated email like wordpress example com instead of the network administrator email address This prevents unwanted revealing of your email address to the users being notified Affects new installations only IMPROVED It is more recognizable that a module is turned off An extra step to turn it on is visible in the Quick Start tab and also a red message in the settings area FIXED There were incorrect results when searching for banned or pending users with a string that contains an underscore This was due to incorrect MySQL escaping in some queries Technically the search feature of the two modules was also vulnerable to a so called SQL wildcard attack which can be used to perform complicated queries in order to slow down the server but since only Super Administrators can access these pages it is not a problem FIXED Removed one link with IP address information from the screen for banning unbanning users because it does not work anymore FIXED We now make sure that the IP address of the user is valid before we perform certain operations with it in the Ban Users module This will prevent errors if for some reason the provided IP address data is invalid FIXED An issue with the height of text editors in the module settings in WordPress 5 It is a bug in WordPress and I have reported it but I have also implemented a fix for now UPDATED Language and documentation files Beyond Multisite 1 3 1 14 June 2018 FIXED When trying to delete sites with the Cleanup module in some situations it would infinitely be processing sites without deleting them FIXED When copying a site if the URL of the site to paste into contained the URL of the site to copy from the resulted site copy would have an incorrect site URL and not work properly This would happen for example if you try to copy from the site example com test to the site example com testing FIXED If you are using CloudFlare then the Ban Users module would show the CloudFlare IP address as the user IP address Now when you update to the 1 3 1 version of this plugin the correct IP address will be set for each user only after the user visits the site while logged-in If you have already banned any users while using CloudFlare you should unban them since the CloudFlare IP address was banned and not the real user IP address You can check which are the CloudFlare IP address ranges here https www cloudflare com ips Beyond Multisite 1 3 0 2 January 2018 ADDED The option to show a country flag next to the user IP address was added to the Ban Users module Data is pulled from the free API at www iplocate io ADDED A new column in the logs table of the Copy Maker module It displays the log size in KB or MB IMPROVED When a list of site URLs is displayed in the Cleanup and Activated in modules they are now links to those URLs IMPROVED Added a nonce field to some forms of the plugin that did not have one This improves security IMPROVED The hint for the number of logs in the options of the Copy Maker module now contains more useful information IMPROVED Switched to the clean_blog_cache and get_main_site_id functions which are more future-proof For versions of WordPress lower than 4 9 the previous approach is still used FIXED Trying to save invalid data for the plugin settings would generate PHP notices for Undefined index and break the tabs layout FIXED Updating from a version of the plugin lower than 1 2 0 to a version higher or equal to 1 2 0 while the plugin is deactivated would cause for some settings of the Insert HTML module to be lost FIXED The responsive layout of the table with the banned users had some problems when the plugin is translated to a language with longer words than English FIXED The quick links that point to network themes menu items added by the Improvements module were not working when displayed as buttons while viewing the active theme on a site FIXED WordPress would sometimes store more than one copy of the same plugin option which may cause some problems I suspect that it is a bug in WordPress So to go around this now instead of updating an existing option the plugin first deletes the option along with any copies and then adds the option with the new value FIXED A mistake in the Bulgarian translation files UPDATED Language and documentation files Beyond Multisite 1 2 1 20 October 2017 FIXED A fatal error saying Can t use function return value in write context was present when the plugin is activated on a server with a PHP version lower than 5 5 FIXED When the Insert HTML module was set to insert before the closing body tag on All except these site IDs it would insert on all sites and produce a PHP notice FIXED The action links of the Activated in and Plugin Control modules were showing on the Must-Use plugins page and PHP warnings were generated FIXED Some tooltip boxes that hold the hints were sometimes showing under the tabs of the WordPress text editor making them partially unreadable Beyond Multisite 1 2 0 25 July 2017 ADDED The Copy Maker module which can duplicate blogs from the multisite network ADDED A setting for the Plugin Control module that automatically network disables newly installed plugins ADDED A feature for the Cleanup module that can delete leftover database tables created by plugins from sites that are now permanently deleted ADDED The option to choose on which types of pages to show the HTML code inserted by the Insert HTML module front-end pages that use the theme template front-end login related pages or back-end admin pages ADDED A quick link to blacklist information about the user IP address in cleantalk org ADDED An option in the Improvements module that can add a CSS class to the body tag on the wp-signup php page ADDED An option in the Improvements module that can delete leftover database tables when a site is permanently deleted ADDED A hover effect for the icons in the Last IP column on the Users network admin page IMPROVED The design of the Modules Settings page is changed to increase readability of the module description It is now split into two tabs and shown in bullets IMPROVED Archived spammed or deleted sites are now excluded from scheduled site deletion tasks IMPROVED The options to choose which sites to be affected by the Insert HTML module are now made to work in the same way that similar options in other modules work for consistency FIXED The comment deletion of the Cleanup module now finds links that don t have a protocol they start with www FIXED Marking sites as deleted with the Cleanup module no longer removes the users from the deleted site FIXED Previewing permanent site deletion or previewing marking not-deleted sites as deleted was causing infinite processing though the sites This affected only networks with so many sites that they could not be processed in one chunk 10 seconds FIXED If several sites of the same user were scheduled for deletion the user would sometimes receive more than one notification instead of just one about all the sites FIXED Some login related messages were not showing if the Email Users module is turned on FIXED The action links of the Activated in and Plugin Control modules are no longer visible on the Drop-ins plugins page FIXED Two options from the Improvements module were causing the Plugins and Themes admin menus to be visible for users that should not see them It was only a menu issue users still could not access the actual pages FIXED PHP warnings were sometimes generated when old captcha images are deleted FIXED When the PHP files of the plugin are accessed directly the script is now terminated immediately instead of generating an error FIXED Few mistakes in the comments of the source code in some files They do not affect how the plugin actually works UPDATED Language and documentation files Beyond Multisite 1 1 0 1 May 17 ADDED The new Email Users module which allows you to send mass emails to all or some users in the network ADDED A new option in the site deletion form that lets you exclude sites which deletion has been cancelled in the past but not earlier than version 1 1 0 ADDED The ability to view which site deletions are scheduled and which are cancelled in an active or finished site deletion task ADDED A way to force the maximum email sending speed in a site deletion task even without having enough visitors to trigger the cron job There is a link to a self-refreshing page that triggers the cron job IMPROVED The captcha will be more compatible with plugins that also add HTML to the WordPress forms If floating elements are added before the captcha image now it will show properly on a new line IMPROVED All single row text fields except the ones for search have the enter key to prevent accidental submissions IMPROVED After successfully cancelling a scheduled site deletion with the Cancel deletion button now the big red message fades away and disappears In the past it stayed until the user goes to another page or reloads the current page IMPROVED After aborting the scheduling of a site deletion task now a message shows that suggests that you reload the page in order to see if such a task has been created before you managed to abort it IMPROVED The reloading of the network cleanup page that is related to site deletion task creation or cancellation now also scrolls down to the site deletion form or the site deletion task information IMPROVED We only call a task active in various messages if it is not done Otherwise we call it finished FIXED A mistake that was causing the maximum email sending speed for the Cleanup module to always be 240 per hour regardless of the chosen settings FIXED One JavaScript variable was declared two times FIXED Few mistakes in the comments of the source code in some files They do not affect how the plugin actually works UPDATED Language and documentation files Beyond Multisite 1 0 1 31 March 17 FIXED The Less than X min hour s day s after registration option for the Last updated drop down menu in the Site Deletion form no longer affects sites with last updated date time that is before the registered date time Even though such sites should not exist I found that they sometimes do FIXED No longer shows an error when trying to schedule such a number of sites for deletion that they are processed in more than one chunk FIXED No longer shows stage 1 of a scheduled site deletion task as active if there are some email notifications skipped and all others are either sent or failed Correctly shows stage 2 as active in that case Beyond Multisite 1 0 0 28 March 17 Initial release