Hi there. First off, thank you SO much for the wp-hive plugin. It works so well. I have a couple of questions about structuring a project that I'm working on.
I know that WP-Hive is recommended for environments where all admins are trusted to have full access, but I'm creating a network of student blogs and I just don't want to get into WPMU if I can help it. I'm thinking of using the Role Manager plugin to restrict what each student can control on their blog and manually creating them as users with restricted access (i.e. to only change/modify their themes, add pages and posts... nothing that will cause too much damage)
I know that that will be something of a tedious process to set up, but it's a good enough workaround for me, especially looking forward toward the 1.0 release and the possibility of a unified admin and/or more detailed control and the development of an API that *might* integrate with the upcoming 1.0 release of BuddyPress down the road. I won't need the student blog functionality until late August/September at the earliest.
Is that setup *still* risky for any particular reason? Assuming that the students have limited admin access and simplified dashboards(via Role Manager and other plugins) and I simply set up identical super-admin accounts in each of their blogs, would the whole hive still be safe from harm, AND would this easily transition into a shared-admin setup when and if that functionality is built in?
Also, if this works, I'd like to have the students select from a standard group of templates, but be able to make some customizations. If I use a theme with its own admin, are those changes applied across the entire install? I'm just not sure where those types of changes are stored in the theme, whether changes are made in the original theme files or whether an additional CSS file is appended or what.
