Title: Shared User Table Roles
Author: wp_joris
Published: <strong>May 6, 2013</strong>
Last modified: May 6, 2013

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Shared User Table Roles

 By [wp_joris](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wp_joris/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/shared-user-table-roles.zip)

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## Description

When sharing the user and usermeta table between multiple wordpress
 installations
using the same database, any role given to the user is only valid for a single wordpress
installation.

This plugin ensures user roles, user capabilities and user settings are
 shared 
between the multiple installations. This is configured using a wp-config constant.

Any role set in any of the installations will be reflected in all other
 installations.

Caveats:

 * Compatability with wordpress multisite is unknown

## Installation

To set up multiple wordpress installations using the same database:

 1.  Install all wordpress installations using the same database, but using a
      different
     $table_prefix in wp_config.
 2.  For example two installations with “eng_” and “nld_”.
 3.  Designate one wordpress installation as “primary”. All other installations are
     
     secondary
 4.  For example the installation with the prefix “eng_”.
 5.  Install and activate this plugin on all secondary wordpress installations.
 6.  In this example “nld_”.
 7.  On all secondary wordpress installations configure CUSTOM_USER_TABLE and
      CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE
     in wp-config to use the tables (users and usermeta) of the primary installation.
 8.  See below for an example
 9.  On all secondary wordpress installations, set SHARED_USER_TABLE_ROLES_PREFIX
      
     to be equal to the table prefix of the primary installation.

#### Primary

For example the relevant wp-config settings for the primary installation would
 
look like:

    ```
        $table_prefix  = 'eng_';
    ```

#### Secondary

For example the relevant wp-config settings for secondary installations would
 look
like:

    ```
        $table_prefix  = 'nld_';
        define('SHARED_USER_TABLE_ROLES_PREFIX', 'eng_');
        define('CUSTOM_USER_TABLE', 'eng_users');
        define('CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE', 'eng_usermeta');
    ```

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Just perfect!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-perfect-286/)󠁿

 [charlyfox](https://profiles.wordpress.org/charlyfox/) January 9, 2018

Thanks for this great little plugin. Does exactly what it’s supposed to do. Works
well with wordpress 4.9.1 … Keep it up! 🙂

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## Contributors & Developers

“Shared User Table Roles” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ wp_joris ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wp_joris/)

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### Interested in development?

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check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/shared-user-table-roles/),
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## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **13 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.5.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shared-user-table-roles/)
 * Tags
 * [roles](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/roles/)[user](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/user/)
   [users](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/users/)[wp-config](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wp-config/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/shared-user-table-roles/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ wp_joris ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wp_joris/)

## Support

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