How do you keep sub site users contained in the site they are registered with?

  • I love WPMU but the user registration process is terrible if you are actually trying to administer multiple sites and not just a chain of subdomains.

    Has anyone come across a away to contain a new user of a sub site from visiting or seeing the main network site?

    This happens on registration, login, logout,, forgot password, etc.. Even the email notifications come from the network site rather than the sub site.

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  • In the grand hierarchy of things, a user is always registered to the entire network first before they are a member of any various and sundry subsites. Their initial registration/signup is controlled by the main site and the superadmin, c’est la vie.

    There is no way to have a separate “logged in” user database for each site unless you take a step back and run multiple instances of a single version of wordpress.

    Using multisite aware template tags in your theme can be useful if you are hiding bits from logged in users, or restricting content to members only.

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/is_user_logged_in
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/is_user_member_of_blog

    There are plugins out there that restrict visibility of sites to members only, I use one, but it am not certain it is what you are looking for for the main site.
    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/more-privacy-options/

    Thread Starter micvideo

    (@oceandigital)

    Thank you. I realize that users are managed at the network level but it still seems counterintuitive to display this complexity to users signing up to a subsite. They shouldnt have to worry about what happens in the backend and it would be a lot more straightforward if the registration process of a subsite “appeared” to be self contained. I would like to open up my wpmu network to allow people to create their own sites just like wordpress but it would be a never ending battle if i had to customize each template for each user that creates a subsite.

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