hidden admin levels

  • 666threesixes666

    (@666threesixes666)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    hi yeah, the installers account is admin user, just like other accounts but i have extra permissions over them because i installed it? wtf… this should NEVER of happened. at very least i require the ability to transfer super admin, and be labeled as such. hidden admin levels, things i would expect from ms, not foss… tisk tisk tisk tisk tisk….

    tisk again, just to let you know i mean it. make a installer level user that can be passed off, then super admin that ANYONE can have. an hour wasted trying to figure out why the webmaster can alter the site theme menus but the employees cant.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    10 years, 2 months ago

    You should post this stuff in the Multisite forum FYI 🙂

    You mean to say that MULTISITE gives the site’s admin account super levels? Yes this is true. It assumes the person who is the admin of the extant site (who happens to be the only person who should have server level access to WP, and the only one who can see the network admin menu once wp-config was edited BTW) is THE admin 🙂

    Anyone can be made a super admin. Go into the Network Admin section, click on users, click on the user you want to make super admin, and check the box to make them a network admin. Done.

    BUT! DO NOT GIVE SUPER ADMIN ACCESS TO EVERYONE AND THEIR PET MONKEY. Seriously. It’s important, and that’s why we lock it down 🙂

    an hour wasted trying to figure out why the webmaster can alter the site theme menus but the employees cant.

    Since themes are shared across the network, the network admin is the only one who can mess with them. Ditto plugins.

    You may want to pick up http://store.halfelf.org/ebooks/wordpress-multisite-101 (it’s pay what you want) – it’s a primer on all that.

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