WordPress Blog Network Super Admin Panel Under Reconstruction
By WordCast Team, posted Jul 30 2010 at 1:47 pm | View Comments
There is a discussion right now on the WordPress Development blog about the Super Admin menu for WordPress 3.0 Blog Networks. Ryan Boren, lead developer for WordPress, proposed changing the look and feel:
The wordpress.org infrastructure work has reminded me how much I dislike having the Super Admin/Network Admin pages appearing alongside the regular per-blog admin pages. I think the Super Admin menu should go away, away to a separate network admin area. Ticket 14435 is where I’m scratching this itch. The patches there move the network admin pages to wp-admin/network/. It is a completely separate admin area just for network management. It is available only from the main site url. Visiting wp-admin/network from other blogs in the network will redirect to the one true place. If you have multiple networks, they each will have a network admin area.
Currently, the Super Admin appears when someone is logged in at the highest level right on the blog they are visiting. It’s confusing, as many people commented, and most agree it would be best served on a separate administration area.
If you are running a blog network (formerly WordPressMU) and have some thoughts on this, join the conversation to have your say.
