Hello
garvinhicking wrote:Hi!
that's bad, you will need to contact your sysadmin in that case. Without DB or FTP access you cannot fix the problem.
And because of this I'm posting in the supersized forum.
garvinhicking wrote:
It does seem that some people occasionally click on it, despite of it reading "the user may not create new entries". Do you have a suggestion how to better solve that? I'm all ears to try to make that more userfriendly.
Yep, occasionally some people click on it, maybe because they don't read "this option will ban you from the blog" which is the real effect, rather than prevent you from creating new entries.
Some facts about this option:
- It does more than the description say (or the description is wrong or "two different options, similar name")
Where you say "the user may not create new entries" it in fact does "the user may not create new entries, nor change its settings, nor change its plugins, nor templates, nor adding more media...". I can't stress this so much.
- Despite the previous fact the option is near others
So when I want to change the email notifications I can accidentally mark the option and get in troubles.
- The option is in my own personal settings
And why I would want to prevent myself for creating new entries?
- Reversing the change requires administrator access/skills
In either case you need some more than a click to reverse the change.
Renaming the option to something with more sense such as "ban the user from the blog", "remove privilegies", some like this. (Maybe add a field for "reasons for the ban" and show it the next time user logs in)
Moving the option away from the personal settings, make it available only from the management of the users and with a schema like this "Group1 > Group2 > Group3... > GroupN", i.e., users in Group1 can access this option for users un Group2,3,...,N; users in Group2 for users in Group3,...N; and so on. The users could not access the option for users in her/his same group.
I'm not a developer so I don't know if what I said is more o less difficult to implement or if I get the real meaning for such option, but this is how I see it.