Is there any way to have myself (and ONLY myself, the network admin) added to all network blogs as an official admin level user? I need some way to knock the blog owner down to subscriber level at my whim so that their blog is still visible and functional from a visitor's POV (but not editable at all by the owner), and keep them as a user of their blog in case they'd like to step back up and run it again. I tried manually creating myself an admin level user and setting the blog owner to subscriber, but I just get the "Cheatin', eh?" screen.
I do understand that I can archive child blogs, but that makes the blog completely invisible to visitors, which is not what I'm after.
If you're a superamdin, you should have that power anyway.
I do, but when I try to kick a child blog admin to subscriber on their blog, I get the "Cheatin' Eh?" screen and it won't allow me to.
Hrm. I see why. You have to have at least one admin for the site. You can add yourself and then delete, but yeah, you'd have to do it per site.
I wonder if new blog defaults plugin can do that.
Yeah, I tried manually adding myself to the child blog as an admin, and THEN modifying the blog owner to subscriber status, but still got the "Cheating" message, even though I was actually listed in the child blog's user list as an admin.
ETA: that is to say that I'm thinking it's an issue with WP not wanting to demote a blog's orginal owner or something, no matter if there's another admin user present or not.
You added yourself as second admin, right? So your id shows up with NA all down the line?
NA? But yeah, I set myself as an admin user on a child blog, but it still won't let me demote the original admin.
I'll have to play with this more when i get back to a full sized computer...
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks ipstenu :)
I need some way to knock the blog owner down to subscriber level at my whim so that their blog is still visible and functional from a visitor's POV (but not editable at all by the owner), and keep them as a user of their blog in case they'd like to step back up and run it again.
You must have a plugin interfering somehow, becasue I just tried it on my test install. I was able to knock down an administrator as a subscriber on their blog, while logged in as a super admin.
I'm also running buddypress on the install, so that's not it...
The "Cheatin' Eh?" screen sound familiar though... can't quite remember the plugin.
Eeek, that sucks. I have roughly 70 different plugins installed :(
AHHH! OMG, it worked! I guess it didn't like me trying to do it to an archived site, because I unarchived the site in question and tried, and everything worked fine :D
YAY!
Yeah, if it's archived it... *crap I forget offhand*
Ok, now for another challenge (hopefully this one won't be so bone-headed, lol)...is there a plugin or a way to set a date on each blog for this to happen (the blog admin being demoted to subscriber) and have it done automagically?
ETA: I see Role Scoper and S2Member, but both seem like way more plugin than I need for this.
