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An easy question maybe, very new to WPMU

Hello everyone,

I was just wondering how to get the Site Admin menu for new users who registered from parent blog

As when I login as a site admin for new-user.example.com/wp-admin/

I find the following menu is totally missing

Site Admin –> (Missing)

Admin

Blogs

Themes

Options

Admin message (/Missing)

Menu starts from posts, media, links, pages, comments & so on..

Please suggest how to get admin menu for newly registered users..

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:53:36
  • dino345
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Hi Andrew,

    Thnkyou for quick response.. There should be an automatic system to do this, if I manually go and make users admin via "Site Admin -> Options" page then it will give them the whole control which I don’t want.

    I am just trying to achieve a simple yet complicated task it seems, as I want these users to be site admin to their own subdomain site and not interfere with the main site settings. So that they can enable or disable features for themselves inside Admin / features.

    reagdrs,

    dino

  • dino345
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    I have just seen the supporter plugin, and on other hand I got to know that blog.mu is having same feature to what I might be looking for, in Blogs.mu Blog admin has a separate menu which looks like the Site admin menu and lets him tackle some of the major features that doesn’t even interfere with main site area. I would say awesome… As he his having greater control.

    Just want to know, if I install supporter extension will this admin menu appear in Blog admin backend ? As this is exactly what I was looking for.. Help will be appreciated.

    regards,

    dino

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hi Dino,

    Blogs.mu is not setup like a traditional WPMU site. Each Blogs.mu account is an entire site. That’s why you’re seeing the Site Admin menu.

    Just want to know, if I install supporter extension will this admin menu appear in Blog admin backend ?

    Afraid not. I think what you’re looking for just isn’t a feature WPMU offers.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • Ovidiu
    • Code Wrangler

    I really think dino is confusing some terms. he also posted in the general wpmu forums http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13105?replies=7 , and I explained that all users signing up for a blog are admins for their own blog. there is no bigger "admin" than that for their blog/subdomain.

    The only account with more rights is the site admin but that one controls all blogs….

    maybe if he could explain what he wants to achieve instead of trying to suggest a solution we might be able to help…

  • dino345
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Hello,

    Thanks Ovidiu and Andrew for helping me out here.

    @Ovidiu – To make it a bit simple, I want blog admins to have site admin menu, if you want to check that out, create an account in blogs.mu and log-in admin backend at your-domain.blogs.mu & you will see the site admin menu which provides you good resources to run your own WPMU site from there, great isn’t it ? Well, these plugins are not available anywhere, so I will stop searching now ;}

    @Andrew – I have also tried multi-site plugin for WPMU, which is very close but as you said, the thing I am looking for is just simply not out there, so I will drop my plans for further search on this, lol.. I n’joyed learning though, its my 2nd week with WordPress..

    Thankyou for your support guys..

  • Ovidiu
    • Code Wrangler

    @dino: its clear now. you want to offer wpmu installations ot users, not blogs.

    Right now users can sign up for blogs or subdomains) you want them to be able to sign up for a compelte wpmu installation like blogs.mu does :slight_smile:

    and yes, you are right, the trick behid that isn’t available. yet, I guess, I mean these guys just came up with it, let them make some money with it, and I guess in a year or so they might make it available to the public :slight_smile:

  • dino345
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Yes Ovidiu, I was just keen to explore WPMU a bit more clearly, being a developer at Hybrid Webdesign UK, I tend to stay updated with everything.. and didn’t want to miss wordpress, its cool, I am also impressed with Andrew’s work..