Add Myself As Co-Admin of All Blogs

  • Resolved justbishop

    (@justbishop)


    13 years, 5 months ago

    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.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 5 months ago

    If you’re a superamdin, you should have that power anyway.

    Thread Starter justbishop

    (@justbishop)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    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.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 5 months ago

    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.

    Thread Starter justbishop

    (@justbishop)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    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.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 5 months ago

    You added yourself as second admin, right? So your id shows up with NA all down the line?

    Thread Starter justbishop

    (@justbishop)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    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.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 5 months ago

    I’ll have to play with this more when i get back to a full sized computer…

    Thread Starter justbishop

    (@justbishop)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks ipstenu 🙂

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    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.

    Thread Starter justbishop

    (@justbishop)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    Eeek, that sucks. I have roughly 70 different plugins installed 🙁

    Thread Starter justbishop

    (@justbishop)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    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 😀

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    YAY!

    Yeah, if it’s archived it… *crap I forget offhand*

    Thread Starter justbishop

    (@justbishop)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    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.

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