List Users Question

Hello,

I am having a problem with some user administration stuff that I am hoping someone can help me with.

I have created a custom user role. This user would fall somewhere between Administrator and Editor, we’ll call it “sub-admin”. This user should be able to promote subscribers on the site to what is basically an author (but is another custom user role we’ll call “s-author”).

I have my user roles defined and working, but here is where I am stuck.

I don’t want the “sub-admin” to be able to see administrators, other “sub-admin”s or “sub-authors” that were assigned that designation by another “sub-admin” (controlled in user meta). When they click the “All Users” menu item, I want them to simply see themselves, their “s-authors” and all subscribers on the site. Is this possible?

What’s more, where I have the “promote users” capability on my “sub-admin” role, I want them to be able to assign these subscribers as “s-authors”, and nothing other than that. (Right now my “sub-admin” can make my initial administrator account a subscriber).

Finally, I don’t want the sub-admin to be able to view the subscriber’s personal information when they click “Edit”. Basically, they should see the users login information and they should have the ability to change their level to “s-author” and assign a bit of other meta. I know it’s possible to add form fields to the user update screen, but is it possible to hide users information from that role?

Thanks,

–d