Can't add new users – HELP! - page 2

Resolved robbarron1
(@robbarron1)

12 years ago

Hi.

I’m a bit of WordPress noob so please bear with me…

I’ve set up and self-hosted my site http://transenduro.co.uk/transpyrenduro/

It’s up and running and I’m able to create posts and pages absolutely fine. Now I want to add a new user so my friend can also contribute to the site. This is where my problem lies – every time I attempt to add him, I get “the requested user does not exist”. My only option is to add the new user as an existing user on the network and I’m sure this is where the problem is. I don’t have the option on my dashboard to add a new user and the associated form, just the option to add an existing user…which doesn’t seem to work. In fact, having looked through several support threads, there are several options that appear to be absent from my dashboard.

I don’t (as far as I know) have any plugins running, I think it’s the standard installation of Twenty Eleven. I had problems getting the iPhone WP app to talk to the site and it turned out to be my host (NamesCo) blocking certain php files so I’m wondering if that’s it?

I’ve only got one WP site running on the domain, but I have enabled multisite just to be on the safe side. In fact when I looked at the php it was already enabled.

I started following the Create a Network instructions, and only got as far as completing step 2! After that, step 3 doesn’t seem to work as I can’t see Network Setup in my Dashboard.

Confused!

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Thread Starter robbarron1
(@robbarron1)

12 years ago

Oh actually…I did manage to post off my iPhone, although it still shows an error.

Thread Starter robbarron1
(@robbarron1)

12 years ago

Logged out…now it won’t let me log back in…

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /content/StartupHost/t/r/transenduro.co.uk/web/transpyrenduro/wp-config.php:1) in /content/StartupHost/t/r/transenduro.co.uk/web/transpyrenduro/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 866

Oh deary me :o/

Thread Starter robbarron1
(@robbarron1)

12 years ago

Hmmm ok, with a spot of trawling I seem to have made those errors go away, however my initial problem remains.

One question – do I actually need to enable MultiSite? I don’t want to add anymore sites (not at this stage anyway), I simply want to add another user as a second Admin or even just contributor on the one existing site I already have.

Seems like I’m having to go all around the houses to achieve something that should be very simple :o/

Axel13
(@axel13)

12 years ago

It seems you started the setup of a multisite, but didn’t entirely finish it. Once you manage to finish the setup, you’ll be able to add users through a new admin panel that will become available.

If you don’t need multisite, you can turn back to the regular WP, which is quite a bit easier to work with, but if you plan on making a new blog later on, you could better find out what’s wrong now.

To revert back to a regular WP, you can change the wp-config.php and the .htaccess back to the original state and I think you can delete these tables from your database (myPHPadmin):
• wp_blogs
• wp_blog_versions
• wp_registration_log
• wp_signups
• wp_site
• wp_sitemeta

Axel13
(@axel13)

12 years ago

Btw, I think multisite always needs to be installed with WP in the root, if you installed it in the folder …/transpyrenduro/, this could cause the problem (not entirely certain). In your case I’d think it would be a better practice to turn the main site in a WP-site with your blog and the other subsites the current site refers to as subsites.

Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
(@ipstenu)

🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

12 years ago

You don’t HAVE to install in root.

Since his URL is http://transenduro.co.uk/transpyrenduro/ that’s fine 🙂 All his sites will start with that URL as well.

One question – do I actually need to enable MultiSite? I don’t want to add anymore sites (not at this stage anyway), I simply want to add another user as a second Admin or even just contributor on the one existing site I already have.

No. You don’t need Multisite at all for that. Just add a new user.

Thread Starter robbarron1
(@robbarron1)

12 years ago

Ok, so I really am going round the houses!

Right, the reason I’ve posted in Multisite help is that I was directed to do so after originally posting in general help <sigh>

So anyway, that aside, my (by all accounts very basic) problem remains – I cannot add a new user!

My ONLY option when I go to do this is to “add existing user” and as there are none other than me that doesn’t work.

Soooooo…. Back to my original question, why can’t I add a new user?!

esmi
(@esmi)

12 years ago

Warning: Cannot modify header information

You now appear to have an issue in your wp-config.php file. See Solving “headers already sent” warnings.

I was directed to do so after originally posting in general help

That was purely because you said that you were using Multisite.

why can’t I add a new user?

At the risk of muddying the waters, are you sure that you are logged in with full admin privileges?

Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
(@ipstenu)

🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

12 years ago

I started following the Create a Network instructions, and only got as far as completing step 2! After that, step 3 doesn’t seem to work as I can’t see Network Setup in my Dashboard.

*head desk* I swear I know this one…

Okay

1) Do you WANT to use Multisite?

2) If so, where in your wp-config.php is the line define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);

What’s above and below it?

Thread Starter robbarron1
(@robbarron1)

12 years ago

Right, let’s start again before we all throw ourselves off a tall building…

I want to add my friend as a new user to my WP site http://transenduro.co.uk/transpyrenduro/

However, from my dashboard, the only option available to me is to add an existing user.
I do not have the add new user option. As I am the only existing user thats not much good to me.

That, in a nutshell, is my problem.

Anyone able to help? Please?!

Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
(@ipstenu)

🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

12 years ago

Do you want Multisite though? Yes or no?

Cause we can either spend time trying to FIX multisite, or uninstall it. Which way do we go? Up to you 🙂

Thread Starter robbarron1
(@robbarron1)

12 years ago

In a word No. I dont think so.

Literally all I want to do is figure out how I can add another user to my one existing site.

So, if I can do that without Multisite then great. The simpler the better. 🙂

Thread Starter robbarron1
(@robbarron1)

12 years ago

http://www.transenduro.co.uk/pics/addnewuser.jpg

No option to add NEW user…just existing.

Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
(@ipstenu)

🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

12 years ago

That;s becuase you’ve got Multisite.

Read this: http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/how-to-disable-multisite/

Do that. Multisite goes away.

Thread Starter robbarron1
(@robbarron1)

12 years ago

The problem of not being able to add additional userts existed before multisite was enabled.

In fact, multisite was enabled in an attempt to solve the problem.

However, I’ll have a read of that and see where that takes me. Back to Square 1 quite possibly!