'Multi User 1.4' Plugin

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Tanks Mikeh and Oxana for this very usefull* plugin. Following your work I come up with a smartened version marked 1.9.0 (sorry if violating some rules but it seems that Mikeh does not support this plugin any more and I want to avoid confusion: now we already have at least four different "1.8.2" versions, none of them fully functional with GetSimple 3.3.5). It needs more testing (please, engage ...) and may be some bugfixing. Some of the new features do not work in IE9 or older, but the plugin is still well usable there.

Version 1.9.0 (February 2015)

• reworked UX closer to GS 3.3 admin interface graceful look&feel
  
• full localization (EN, RU and CS translations included; not much text, if you send more langs I'll add them)
  
• fixed Display Name mismatch bug (now is the same as in the User Profile on Settings page)
  
• returned User's bio in User's profile, fixed non-latin characters crashes (it is now renamed to "Personal information" as it can have more general use, eg. personal to-do list)
  
• CKeditor is on demand on the User Management page (blue "#" link), it saves a lot of space if not used
  
• added switch to reveal password text on enter (blue "#" link)
  
• added client-side username and empty password validation (now you do not lose form data if you forget to enter password, no problems with invalid login name characters)
  
• added client-side automatic landing page restriction/setting when adjusting permissions
  
• logged-in user cannot delete himself or remove his User Management rights (may be the most simple way of superuser implementation, as someone suggested here)
  
• set of default permissions when adding new users adjusted for "standard" non-admin user (hopefully suitable in most cases for web designers' clients)
  
• added several help hints (blue question marks with hover texts)
  
• substantional increase of performance with more then few users (removed multiple readings of whole CKeditor core script for each user)
  
• client-side code cleaning and polishment
  

*In my opinion this plugin is essential to fulfil the claim "GetSimple has everything you need, and nothing you don't" not only from web designer's point of view, but also from the point of view of their/our clients, who will not usually change or edit theme, install plugins or adjust page slugs. In most cases they need Pages, Files, Backups and their own Profile, or may be other pre-installed modules such as Newsletter, Blog, Gallery, etc.

Suggestions for future enhancements
I am a client-side web designer not practised at PHP scripting. I have done what I can and even a little more. If someone else will smarten up this plugin further, these are some ideas which I can't implement:

• Send email with credentials to newly created users (as when creating first user at installation; the coding can be hopefully reused)
  
• Add User created date to the Users table
  
• Allow more characters in username - when creating the first user, you can use eg. @ . , ( ) # ' space and much more. The user's XML filename is then different from the value of <USR> tag inside it.
  
• Allow setting and requiering of some reasonable password policy, so that user can't set password same as his login name, one character password, atc.
  
• Flip the Add new user and Edit user functionality to ajax, as now with Delete user. This is the only one I can perhaps still implement myself, but not in the next weeks ...
  

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