Title: hidden admin levels
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# hidden admin levels

 *  [666threesixes666](https://wordpress.org/support/users/666threesixes666/)
 * (@666threesixes666)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hidden-admin-levels/)
 * 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)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hidden-admin-levels/#post-4567049)
 * 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](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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 * [superadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/superadmin/)
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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hidden-admin-levels/#post-4567049)
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