Lock Down Widget Areas – Best Practices

[Mike]

I manage a multi-site installation at a university and use Genesis exclusively for faculty, staff, departmental sites, blogs, etc. But we've had more than a few users customize their sites that do not align with university branding and I'm looking at locking down various widget areas so that site administrators cannot change them. For example, I want to keep the search engine in the Header Right widget area.

In short I'm looking for best practices for Genesis. What is the best approach to accomplish this? Do we demote site administrators to editors or can we somehow lock those certain areas down from being changed? If we can lock them down, how would we go about it? Is it via the functions.php?

Right now we're developing 3-5 university branded themes from the Genesis Sample theme which is very basic...and that's a good thing.

Mike

http://sites.ewu.edu/

[Brad Dalton]

You could modify the capabilities of admins.

Here's an example of how you could remove access to themes for admins.

You could modify the code so it removes capabilities relating to widgets.

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Tutorials for StudioPress Themes.

[Mike]

Thanks for the tips Brad. I'll check them out for sure. Much appreciated.

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