Changing standard user role after having activated WP MultiSite

  • Resolved 1a-spielwiese

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    10 years, 5 months ago

    How can I change the standard user role (or delete the concept of standard user rule as such) after having activated WordPress MultiSite?

    With WordPress SingleSite I can change the standard user role at setting/general within the admin panel.

    But there I can’t do it after activating MutliSite – neither on the network level nor on the root blog level.

    Background information:

    With ‘Capability Manager Enhanced’-plugin I created two new user roles: ‘Team’ and ‘Fan’; besides I have administrators.

    Though both – teams and fans – are more frequent than administrators, it would not make sense for me to say that team OR fan should be the standard user role.

    Cfr. for more details:
    https://buddypress.org/support/topic/different-profile-types-and-different-user-roles-part-ii/

    My minmum objective is, that there ‘subscribers’ disappear.

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  • Thread Starter 1a-spielwiese

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    WHY do these people need non-admin access to sites?

    Maybe, one day they will need admin-access…

    • For the moment most of them have no knowledge to do more then publishing posts and editing already existing pages. (Nearly all of them never before have worked with wordpress; most of them own only smartphones, but no computers.)
    • And therefore I prefer to give them only slightly more capabilities than ‘authors’. (My ‘team’- and ‘fan’-roles have little more capabilities than ‘authors’, but significantly less than ‘administrators’ and even ‘editors’.)

    Currently I don’t want, that they create new pages or try to change the sidebar or change colors or font-sizes, etc. – All blogs of the network shall have the same design and almost the same structure (with little differences between the root-blog, the fan-blogs and the team-blogs).

    Cfr. now as well:

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/changing-the-setting-page-of-the-admin-panel?replies=1

    Thread Starter 1a-spielwiese

    (@1a-spielwiese)

    And point #4 is why I was stressing that roles are per site. Everything you set up on Single Site was for Site #1 and ONLY that site. Multisite lets you make more sites, but they all start from that same basic level.

    ‘ Multisite lets you make more sites’. – Yes, and I did – but none of theses sites (blogs) allow even me (the superadmin) to change the default user role.

    The point is: The settings general page for WP SingleSite and WP MultiSit is different:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/changing-the-setting-page-of-the-admin-panel

    I did find this plugin which may help: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/bulk-user-management/

    I installed and activated it; but I can’t find any new menu point – neither on the network-, nor on the root-blog-level.

    However, the plugin description says: ‘A plugin that lets you manage users across all your sites from one place on a multisite install.’

    I assume this would not resolve my problem, because my point is not managing already registered users. Rather it is the information, which the ‘WP-role-at-registration’-plugin receives from the WordPress-core-settings.

    Thread Starter 1a-spielwiese

    (@1a-spielwiese)

    By chance I found the solution:

    Within the wp-admin-folder there is not only an options-general.php, rather as well an options.php.

    Within the comment at the beginning of this file is written: ‘If accessed directly in a browser this page shows a list of all saved options along with editable fields for their values.’

    Therefore I adressed this file with 1a-spielwiese.de/wp-admin/options.php – and there I found the opportunity to change the default user role:

    https://1a-spielwiese.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/wp-admin-options-php.jpg

    After changing it into ‘fan’ (note: it’s not possible to leave the line blank!), on the page options-general.php?page=wp-roles-at-registration it is now possible to select only the roles ‘fan’ and ‘team’:

    https://1a-spielwiese.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/rar-settings_without_subscriber.jpg

    And after saving it, ‘subscriber’ disappears from the registration page as well:

    https://1a-spielwiese.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/register-page_without_subscriber.jpg

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