Beyond Multisite Features

Short Description

Beyond Multisite helps WordPress multisite network administrators to better control, protect, and clean their network.

Features

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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

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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

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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

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Activated in Module
(view documentation)

View sites that have activated a plugin
View sites that have activated a theme

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Pending Users Module
(view documentation)

Manage non-activated signups
– Activate signup
– Resend activation email
– Delete signup
– Search by username or email

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 15 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

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 16 ADDED: Bulk delete actions from the action scheduler via the network cleanup module.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 17 ADDED: Option to change the role of admin users after template site copy.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 18 FIXED: Incorrect preview captcha image on the plugin settings page in some situations due to browser cache.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 19 UPDATED: Language file.

Beyond Multisite 1.16.0 – 1 August 2023

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 20 ADDED: Options to not copy the site title or admin email in the normal site copy process.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 21 IMPROVED: Removed or shortened some strings in the copy site log to reduce its size in the database.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 22 FIXED: Some PHP warnings and deprecations related to the Site Plugin Control page in PHP 8.1 and above.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 23 UPDATED: Language file.

Beyond Multisite 1.15.0 – 6 January 2023

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 24 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 25 ADDED: The ability to export the site IDs or site URLs for the results of the Activated In module.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 26 ADDED: Option to copy a site into a new site (instead of replacing existing one), but it will use the template site copy settings.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 27 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 28 ADDED: Hooks for developers to add extra fields to the site deletion form.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 29 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 30 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 31 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 32 IMPROVED: The bulk activate/deactivate feature now shows a message that it is not compatible with the WP Rocket plugin.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 33 IMPROVED: Better support for persistant cache plugins, since now we are clearing the WordPress cache after certain operations that needed it.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 34 IMPROVED: Better support for Windows based systems due to removing the DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant from the plugin code.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 35 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 36 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 37 IMPROVED: The task statistics of the Email Users module now refreshes automatically while you stay on the page.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 38 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 39 FIXED: The HTTP version of HTTPS URLs from the site we are copying would not get replaced.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 40 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 41 FIXED: A PHP warning about an undefined array key in the improvements.php file in some situations.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 42 FIXED: Some error situations would cause an endless loading without showing an error message. Now they show an error.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 43 FIXED: The captcha will show an error now if it could not write the answer to the database.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 44 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).

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 45 FIXED: The ban users cron job was added without a function if the plugin was activated while the module was turned off.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 46 UPDATED: Language and documentation files.

Beyond Multisite 1.14.1 – 19 January 2022

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 47 IMPROVED: Replaced most global variables with either constants or super global array elements, to improve WP-CLI compatibility.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 48 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

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 49 ADDED: A WP-CLI command to copy a site. It is described in the options of the Copy Maker module.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 50 ADDED: Some hooks in the be_mu_copy_sites_copy_for_seconds() function to help developers copy a site with the function.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 51 IMPROVED: The site copy process now supports the blogmeta database table, and copies the site meta data from there as well.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 52 IMPROVED: Some layout improvements in some module options and more clear wording on some places.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 53 FIXED: Sometimes wrong error count was shown inside the copy site log.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 54 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 55 FIXED: The Insert HTML module did not insert the admin head code on the customizer pages.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 56 UPDATED: Language and documentation files.

Beyond Multisite 1.13.0 – 15 August 2021

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 57 ADDED: An option to select multiple roles, including custom roles in the Email Users module.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 58 ADDED: The ability to export a list of all affected emails instead of sending them an email in the Email Users module.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 59 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 60 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 61 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 62 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 63 UPDATED: Language and documentation files.

Beyond Multisite 1.12.0 – 2 January 2021

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 64 ADDED: Options to not copy the posts, pages, categories, or tags from the template site.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 65 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 66 ADDED: The ability to delete all users that do not have a role in any site with the Cleanup Module.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 67 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 68 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 69 FIXED: Incorrect comment counts shown on the comments page after comment cleanup on a site that uses WooCommerce.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 70 FIXED: Incorrect captcha preview image path after clicking the Update Preview button multiple times, but still working in modern browsers.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 71 FIXED: A PHP warning when we cannot write in the plugin folder.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 72 FIXED: Some circular icons, like the ones showing the Network Enable/Disable status, were vertically stretched on mobile devices.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 73 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 74 FIXED: On some servers people may get an error about an empty response after some actions, even though they were successfully executed.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 75 UPDATED: Language and documentation files.

Beyond Multisite 1.11.0 – 3 June 2020

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 76 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 77 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).

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 78 IMPROVED: The Captcha module is now turned off by default (affects only new installation of the plugin).

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 79 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 80 UPDATED: Language and documentation files.

Beyond Multisite 1.10.0 – 4 January 2020

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 81 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 82 IMPROVED: The Improvements module now also stops email notifications about a changed password even when the WooCommerce form is used.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 83 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 84 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 85 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 86 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

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 87 UPDATED: Language files.

Beyond Multisite 1.9.0 – 14 August 2019

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 88 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 89 ADDED: An option to choose the IP address detection method in the Ban Users module settings.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 90 IMPROVED: The Copy Maker is now compatible with the PeepSo plugin and copies its files properly.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 91 FIXED: The Copy Maker now replaces properly the old URL in the site copy if the URL is stored encoded or escaped with slashes.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 92 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 93 UPDATED: Language and documentation files.

Beyond Multisite 1.8.0 – 7 May 2019

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 94 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 95 FIXED: The arrows to change the results page, when viewing the scheduled or cancelled sites of a scheduled site deletion task, were not working.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 96 FIXED: Sites with zero administrators were skipped when scheduling a site deletion task.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 97 UPDATED: Language and documentation files.

Beyond Multisite 1.7.0 – 3 May 2019

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 98 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 99 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).

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 100 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 101 UPDATED: Language files.

Beyond Multisite 1.6.0 – 19 April 2019

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 102 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 103 FIXED: Incorrect confirmation message when executing a site deletion task (present since version 1.5.0).

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 104 UPDATED: Language and documentation files.

Beyond Multisite 1.5.1 – 14 March 2019

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 105 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

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 106 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 107 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 108 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 109 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 110 UPDATED: Language and documentation files.

Beyond Multisite 1.4.0 – 27 December 2018

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 111 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).

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 112 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 113 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 114 ADDED: Buttons to go to the next or previous page from the set of results in various places in the plugins.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 115 ADDED: Two new links with IP address information on the screen for banning/unbanning users.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 116 IMPROVED: When we failed to send a test email from the settings of the “Cleanup” module, we now show an error.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 117 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 118 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).

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 119 IMPROVED: The list of user sites, which are shown in the email notification for a scheduled site deletion, are now active links.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 120 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 121 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 122 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 123 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 124 FIXED: Removed one link with IP address information from the screen for banning/unbanning users because it does not work anymore.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 125 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 126 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 127 UPDATED: Language and documentation files.

Beyond Multisite 1.3.1 – 14 June 2018

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 128 FIXED: When trying to delete sites with the Cleanup module, in some situations it would infinitely be processing sites without deleting them.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 129 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 130 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

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 131 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 132 ADDED: A new column in the logs table of the “Copy Maker” module. It displays the log size in KB or MB.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 133 IMPROVED: When a list of site URLs is displayed in the “Cleanup” and “Activated in?” modules, they are now links to those URLs.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 134 IMPROVED: Added a nonce field to some forms of the plugin that did not have one. This improves security.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 135 IMPROVED: The hint for the number of logs in the options of the “Copy Maker” module now contains more useful information.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 136 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 137 FIXED: Trying to save invalid data for the plugin settings would generate PHP notices for “Undefined index” and break the tabs layout.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 138 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 139 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 140 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 141 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 142 FIXED: A mistake in the Bulgarian translation files.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 143 UPDATED: Language and documentation files.

Beyond Multisite 1.2.1 – 20 October 2017

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 144 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 145 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 146 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 147 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

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 148 ADDED: The “Copy Maker” module, which can duplicate blogs from the multisite network.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 149 ADDED: A setting for the “Plugin Control” module that automatically network disables newly installed plugins.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 150 ADDED: A feature for the “Cleanup” module that can delete leftover database tables (created by plugins) from sites that are now permanently deleted.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 151 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 152 ADDED: A quick link to blacklist information about the user IP address in cleantalk.org.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 153 ADDED: An option in the “Improvements” module that can add a CSS class to the body tag on the wp-signup.php page.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 154 ADDED: An option in the “Improvements” module that can delete leftover database tables when a site is permanently deleted.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 155 ADDED: A hover effect for the icons in the “Last IP” column on the “Users” network admin page.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 156 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 157 IMPROVED: Archived, spammed, or deleted sites are now excluded from scheduled site deletion tasks.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 158 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).

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 159 FIXED: The comment deletion of the “Cleanup” module now finds links that don’t have a protocol (they start with “www.”).

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 160 FIXED: Marking sites as deleted with the “Cleanup” module no longer removes the users from the deleted site.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 161 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).

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 162 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).

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 163 FIXED: Some login related messages were not showing if the “Email Users” module is turned on.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 164 FIXED: The action links of the “Activated in?” and “Plugin Control” modules are no longer visible on the “Drop-ins” plugins page.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 165 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 166 FIXED: PHP warnings were sometimes generated when old captcha images are deleted.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 167 FIXED: When the PHP files of the plugin are accessed directly, the script is now terminated immediately (instead of generating an error).

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 168 FIXED: Few mistakes in the comments of the source code in some files. They do not affect how the plugin actually works.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 169 UPDATED: Language and documentation files.

Beyond Multisite 1.1.0 – 1 May 17

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 170 ADDED: The new “Email Users” module which allows you to send mass emails to all or some users in the network.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 171 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).

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 172 ADDED: The ability to view which site deletions are scheduled and which are cancelled in an active or finished site deletion task.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 173 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 174 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 175 IMPROVED: All single row text fields, except the ones for search, have the enter key to prevent accidental submissions.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 176 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 177 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 178 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 179 IMPROVED: We only call a task active, in various messages, if it is not done. Otherwise we call it finished.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 180 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 181 FIXED: One JavaScript variable was declared two times.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 182 FIXED: Few mistakes in the comments of the source code in some files. They do not affect how the plugin actually works.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 183 UPDATED: Language and documentation files.

Beyond Multisite 1.0.1 – 31 March 17

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 184 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 185 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.

Beyond Multisite - Utilities for WordPress Network Admins - 186 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

Beyond Multisite WordPress Plugin