Jordan

Okay, thanks.

But shouldn’t contributors, who can create their own posts, still be able to add a featured image to posts they’re creating? When they can’t, it requires a workflow where the contributor has to have an editor add an image to the post for them, which seems counter-intuitive.

As far as I can tell, my contributors had this capability until I added your plugin — or am I missing something?

For those who come after me with the same problem, here’s what ended up being the problem:

I had changed my table prefixes for security purposes, but the tool I used did not change the prefixes WITHIN the usermeta and options tables. There’s a number of these that, by default, begin with wp_ and need to be changed to whatever new prefix you chose.

If you have a large MU site, the easiest way to change the usermeta ones is to download the SQL file, open it in a text editor find all instances of “wp_” and replace with your new prefix. Then go back to SQL, flush the table, upload the new version.

Anyone have any idea how to fix this? I don’t care if the user lists are gone — I can recompile them, since we have a relatively small site. I’m just more concerned about making sure it works properly.

I have very recent database backups (from before this was an issue) and can maybe replace tables with previous versions, if I knew which ones to use?

Okay! So, I’m still not sure exactly what the problem is — in fact, I’m still HAVING problems, but I’m getting closer to a solution.

I gave the “move plugins to another directory and move them back in one-by-one” thing another try and lo-and-behold! some of the issues suddenly started to become clearer.

First off, a plugin (Pending Posts Indicator) was messing with the “Sites” menu on the Network Admin page. Not sure why that started happening now, when it’s never been a problem before, but it’s off now.

Next, somehow the list of users that is assigned to each site was removed. So I could access each site because I’m a super-admin, but they weren’t showing up in the “My Sites” drop down on the menu bar because me, and everyone else, had been removed from every site except home.

Here’s where it gets really mysterious — now that I’ve figured all this out, I’m still having a problem with the user pages on each sub-site. Here’s what’s occurring:

1. When viewing “Network Admin > Sites” I see a list of all my sites. I’ve added myself back to a few of them, and I see my name on this list.
2. However, when I go to any site’s user list, where I’ve been added, it says “2 items” on the page, but NOTHING shows in between the top and bottom rows of the table. So, I see both the top and bottom table bars (showing “Username | Name | Email” etc.) but nothing in between them.
3. Next, if I go to any site’s “Users > Add New” page, the “Role” box is empty — no “Admin”/”Editor”/”Author”, etc. — just an empty drop-down with nothing in it. This page allows me to add new users, but again, they don’t show up in the Users page.

Yes. Seriously, the ONLY thing that changed was that I uploaded the new versions of the files I listed above. Before, worked fine, and after, kaput. 🙂

Yes, they’re all still listed in wp_blogs.