Scott Joudry

<p>The User Access Hub is a service that allows administrators to manage users, user access, and roles across a network of CMS sites.</p>
<h3>User Access Hub</h3>
<p>The User Access Hub is a service that allows administrators to manage users, user access, and roles across a network of CMS sites and will significantly simplify the administrative tasks associated with managing multiple websites. Some reasons why using such a service can help an administrator effectively manage all their CMS sites:</p>
<ol>
<li>Centralized User Management: The User Access Hub provides a single, centralized dashboard where administrators can manage users across all connected CMS sites. This means that instead of logging into each site separately, they can control user access from one location.</li>
<li>User Account Creation and Deletion: Administrators can grant a user access to one or all CMS sites and revoke/delete user access to one or all CMS sites simultaneously. This is particularly useful when onboarding new users or removing access for users who no longer require it.</li>
<li>Role Management: Administrators can assign CMS site defined roles to users for each CMS site, allowing fine tuned access to each CMS site for each user. Permissions will be assigned to roles that are configured on the CMS site.</li>
<li>Single Sign-On (SSO): The User Access Hub allowing users to log in once and access all connected CMS sites without the need for multiple logins. This enhances user experience and security.</li>
<li>Audit Trail and Logging: The hub maintains detailed logs and an audit trail of user activities and changes made by administrators. This is essential for tracking changes, diagnosing issues, and maintaining security.</li>
<li>Scalability: As the network of Drupal sites grows, the User Access Hub can easily scale to accommodate new CMS sites and users without significantly increasing administrative overhead.</li>
<li>Automation: The User Access Hub service is built on the API first methodology and most of the operations that can be performed in the UI can also be performed using the User Access Hub API.</li>
</ol>
<p><a href="https://www.useraccesshub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Create a free account to get started.</a></p>
<h3>Additional features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Drupal CMS support</li>
<li>Core Updates Reporting</li>
<li>Plugin Updates Reporting</li>
<li>Theme Updates Reporting</li>
</ul>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>This plugin requires the openssl_verify() PHP function, which is part of the <a href="https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.openssl.php" rel="nofollow ugc">OpenSSL library</a> for PHP.</li>
<li>This plugin requires an account on <a href="https://www.useraccesshub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">User Access Hub</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<ol>
<li>Enable the plugin. This will create an API key at User Access Hub > Authentication. None of the fields on this form can be edited through the UI. The ‘Enabled the Handshake Endpoint’ checkbox should be checked.</li>
<li>Select the roles that should be handled by the hub’s SSO functionality at User Access Hub > Roles.</li>
<li>Add the site to the <a href="https://www.useraccesshub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">User Access Hub</a> hub, setting the API key that was generated from step 1.</li>
<li>In the hub, use the ‘Connect’ operation to allow the hub to handshake with the site. Once this is complete, settings on User Access Hub > Authentication will be updated – ‘Private Key’ will be populated, ‘Site ID’ will be populated and the ‘Enabled the Handshake Endpoint’ checkbox will be unchecked.</li>
<li>To enable all User Access Hub functionality, the final step is to check the ‘Enable all of the User Access Hub functionality.’ checkbox on User Access Hub > Settings.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Overriding Configuration</h3>
<p>In many cases, the configuration that exists in the database will need to be overridden. The case of different config values for different environments springs to mind. This can be accomplished by overriding the configuration in a wp-config.php file:</p>
<pre><code>define( 'USERACCESSHUB_ALLOW_LOCAL', true );
define( 'USERACCESSHUB_API_KEY', 'string' );
define( 'USERACCESSHUB_DEFAULT_ROLE', 'role' );
define( 'USERACCESSHUB_ENABLED', true );
define( 'USERACCESSHUB_HANDSHAKE_ENABLED', true );
define( 'USERACCESSHUB_PUBLIC_KEY', 'string' );
define( 'USERACCESSHUB_REDIRECT', '/redirect/url' );
define( 'USERACCESSHUB_ROLES', array( 'role1', 'role2' ) );
define( 'USERACCESSHUB_SITE_ID', 1 );
</code></pre>
<h3>Commands</h3>
<h3>Enable Handshake</h3>
<p>This WP CLI command will enable the handshake endpoint so a site can be reconnected with the Hub.</p>
<pre><code>wp enable-handshake
</code></pre>
<h3>Disable Handshake</h3>
<p>This WP CLI command will disable the handshake endpoint.</p>
<pre><code>wp disable-handshake
</code></pre>
<h3>Regenerate API Key</h3>
<p>This WP CLI command will re-generate the API key used for the handshake.</p>
<pre><code>wp regenerate-api-key
</code></pre>


User Access Hub

The User Access Hub is a service that allows administrators to manage users, user access, and roles across a network of CMS sites.

Frank Bueltge

Inpsyde GmbH

Simon Kraft

WP Media

<p>If you manage a multi-author WordPress blog or WordPress sites for clients, then you may have wondered if it was possible to clean up the WordPress admin area for your users? There are lots of things in the WordPress admin area that your users don’t need to see or use. This plugin help you to hide unnecessary items from WordPress admin area.</p>
<p>Adminimize makes it easy to remove items from view based on a user’s role.</p>
<h4>What does this plugin do?</h4>
<p>The plugin changes the administration backend and gives you the power to assign rights on certain parts. Admins can activate/deactivate every part of the menu and even parts of the sub-menu. Meta fields can be administered separately for posts and pages. Certain parts of the write menu can be deactivated separately for admins or non-admins. The header of the backend is minimized and optimized to give you more space and the structure of the menu gets changed to make it more logical – this can all be done per user so each role and their resulting users can have his own settings.</p>
<h4>Support Custom Post Type</h4>
<p>The plugin support all functions also for custom post types, automatically in the settings page.</p>
<h4>Support Custom Options on all different post types</h4>
<p>It is possible to add own options to hide areas in the back-end of WordPress. It is easy and you must only forgive a ID or class, a selector, of the markup, that you will hide.</p>
<h4>Compatibility with plugins for MetaBoxes in Write-area</h4>
<p>You can add your own options, you must only check for css selectors.</p>
<h4>Help with “Your own options”</h4>
<p>See the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/328449" title="Plugin: Adminimize Help with Your own options (3 posts)" rel="ugc">entry on the WP community forum</a> for help with this great possibility.</p>
<h4>License</h4>
<p>Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog. But if you enjoy this plugin, you can thank me and leave a <a href="http://bueltge.de/wunschliste/" title="Wishliste and Donate" rel="nofollow ugc">small donation</a> for the time I’ve spent writing and supporting this plugin. And I really don’t want to know how many hours of my life this plugin has already eaten 😉</p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>The plugin comes with various translations, please refer to the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language" title="Installing WordPress in Your Language" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Codex</a> for more information about activating the translation. If you want to help to translate the plugin to your language, please have a look at the sitemap.pot file which contains all definitions and may be used with a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/" rel="nofollow ugc">gettext</a> editor like <a href="http://www.poedit.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Poedit</a> (Windows) or use, I prefers this, the <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/adminimize" rel="nofollow ugc">translation service from wordpress.org</a>.</p>


Adminimize

Adminimize that lets you hide 'unnecessary' items from the WordPress backend

User Access Hub vs Adminimize