BadgeOS & multisite: How to allow site admins access to edit users in dashboard

Valid question that I don’t have an answer to, to be honest. In multisite networks, only super admins are allowed to edit users, as you’ve noted the frustrating way. This is by design with WordPress core.

After a little bit of testing, I did find that the add/update/delete user meta functions work regardless of user role in a multisite install, but that only goes so far and would require a coded solution. It would not provide a UI like the user profile editor screen has. To access that part, you need that edit user capability. It could provide a window of opportunity, especially if we rework the profile achievement management. We already have settings that allow setting the role needed to do custom management, and we could tap into the existing ones or create a new one.

Sadly, we don’t have anything ready in any form at the present moment.

Thanks for the info – good to know that something would be possible.

It is definitely a huge setback. Multisite and BadgeOS have huge potential in education but this is a roadblock. Teachers (admins) need to be able to access info about their students (users).

Would what you suggest be fairly simple to implement? I’m more than willing to pay for development, if it would be something reasonable to accomplish.

Understandable, but it’s also a limitation with how WordPress itself works, not just something due to how our plugin was implemented. The ideas I outlined last night are a workaround that I found *should* be possible.

I don’t know how best to implement such a thing at the moment, in terms of what would ultimately end up in the core plugin, if anything. The BadgeOS team would need to explore options and best paths forward.

The functions are in place in the core code and ultimately what needs to be done is select a user or users, select which achievements to award, and pass them into the right functions. The API is publicly listed at https://badgeos.org/api/ if someone wants to browse it.

Tried this: https://thereforei.am/2011/03/15/how-to-allow-administrators-to-edit-users-in-a-wordpress-network/

It worked. Thought I would post it here in case anyone else stumbles on this thread needing the same solution.

If it works, it works, but not going to be something we’re going to want to distribute in the plugin, as that’s assuming too much power over any person’s site. Until a different solution is found, gonna leave the link above as a per-need usecase. ??