Test to see if user is a site admin, can it be done in MU?

he was checking to see if a user was an admin of a blog, or if they had a blog – not for super admin status. 😉

The best way of checking who the site owner is of a specific site …

That is not what the1path is trying to do!

He/she wanted to check if a user has a blog. I have been looking for the same thing.

The code the1path provided works great. Thanks for posting!

I put this in my author.php:

$user_id = $curauth->ID;
$key = 'primary_blog';
$single = true;
$primary_blog = get_user_meta( $user_id, $key, $single);

if ($primary_blog == "") {?>
                    <p>No site yet</p>
          <?php } else { ?>
               	<p>Member has site</p>
<?php
}

$user_id depends on your specific case, but this seems like a pretty straightforward, solid solution.

Is it? Am I missing something? Is there a more standard way to do this?

but I dont think its that pretty

Seems to do exactly what I needed with only a few lines!

One issue with the1path’s code; it still doesn’t check if the user is the administrator of the primary blog.

Even if the user is only a subscriber on someone else’s blog, the code will still show ‘Member has site’.

So for my case I have to add a check AND is not Administrator to this condition:

if ($primary_blog == "")

How can I do that? Probably something with user_can()?

Searching for solution. Will report back…

jjones7, thanks for the suggestion, but I have no clue what is going on in your code. the1path’s code looks a lot simpler.

Why does subscribing to someone else’s blog count as having a primary_blog? What is the point of having a key like that if it is not restricted to the user’s own blogs?

Is there any way to incorporate user_can() into the1path’s code? Would ‘user can not’ be like this, like regular PHP:

!user_can( $user, $capability )

And then just use a random Administrator capability, like activate_plugins or manage_options?

jjones7, what would $capability be in your code?

This produces a server error (‘unexpected T_ELSE’):

$user_id = $curauth->ID;
$key = 'primary_blog';
$single = true;
$primary_blog = get_user_meta( $user_id, $key, $single);

if ($primary_blog == "") {
echo '<p>No site yet</p>';
} else if (!user_can( $user_id, manage_options )) {
echo '<p>No site yet</p>';
else {
echo '<p>Member has site</p>';
}

This causes the same error:

if (!user_can( $user_id, manage_options )) {
echo '<p>No site yet</p>';
else {
echo '<p>Member has site</p>';
}

So I guess !user_can( $user_id, manage_options ) is wrong.

Can someone please help me figure out the right syntax etc?

This produces several syntax errors:

$user_blogs = get_blogs_of_user( $user_id ));
if !$user_blogs {
echo 'User has no blog';
}
else {
echo 'User has a blog';
}

unexpected ‘)’ and ‘!’.

It also still does not check if the user it the Administrator/Owner of a blog. This would still say the ‘User has a blog’ if he is only a Subscriber.

Where would you get that $blog_id to do the second check? Is there no way to check if a user is Admin anywhere?

Is there any way to incorporate a user_can_for_blog() check in the1path’s solution? Is $primary_blog the $blog_id?

This works without server errors:

$user_id = $curauth->ID;
$key = 'primary_blog';
$single = true;
$primary_blog = get_user_meta( $user_id, $key, $single);

if ($primary_blog == "") {
echo '<p>No site yet</p>';
} else if (user_can( $user_id, edit_posts )) {
echo '<p>Member has site</p>';
}

But ‘Member has site’ only shows up for super admins. Nothing is echoed for regular members who definitely have sites.

Based on jjones7’s suggestions this could work:

$user_id = $curauth->ID;
$key = 'primary_blog';
$single = true;
$primary_blog = get_user_meta( $user_id, $key, $single);

if ($primary_blog == "") {
echo '<p>No site yet</p>';
} else if (user_can_for_blog($user_id, $primary_blog, edit_posts )) {
echo '<p>Member has site</p>';
}

But user_can_for_blog() is an ‘undefined function’.

So that user_can check does not work. Any alternatives?