Title: Site Admin or Users cannot modify posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Site Admin or Users cannot modify posts

 *  [D8TA](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d8ta/)
 * (@d8ta)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-admin-or-users-cannot-modify-posts/)
 * I have a multi-site blog which two sites are using the file:// to link to Windows
   file shares. Makes managing the xls and doc easier for everyone involved. I found
   where someone created a plugin to allow this and it is working fine.
 * My issue is there are several links using file:// or http:// that the site blog
   admin modifies regularly. Today when they change the links the entire link changes.
   For example, the link is `http://server/01 access/02 documents/here is the spreadsheet.
   xls`. If the site admin goes to edit this page and doesn’t do anything but click
   update the link changes to something like `http://server1 access/2 document/here
   is the spreadsheet.xls` and of course renders the link useless. The strange thing
   is if the multi-site admin changes the link or does the same thing the link stays
   in tact and functions correctly. I tried creating a new blog admin for this site
   but get the same results as the original admin user which makes me believe it
   is tied to the site but not sure how I can fix it without creating a site admin
   for the user to use which I don’t want to do. Any thoughts on how I can correct?

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-admin-or-users-cannot-modify-posts/#post-3467724)
 * Click .. update to what? The post?
 * This almost sounds like something you’d want to shortcode for them.
 *  Thread Starter [D8TA](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d8ta/)
 * (@d8ta)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-admin-or-users-cannot-modify-posts/#post-3467746)
 * Changed \ to / in my links and all is well. Wish WordPress would just allow the
   file: protocol. Starting to seem like every update breaks this once I get it 
   fixed.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-admin-or-users-cannot-modify-posts/#post-3467770)
 * You’re doing this wrong.
 * WordPress is a WEB app. All webapps use proper html protocol, which means /’s
   are the way to go.
 * So yeah, I would shortcode this for them, but why are you using file at all? 
   http pointing to xls works fine with WP. I upload .docs all the time.

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-admin-or-users-cannot-modify-posts/#post-3467770)
 * Status: not resolved

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