Child Site User Privilages

How are you adding them now? Because by default, if they are a user on the network, and you make them an editor on the subsite, they are NOT an editor on the main site.

So – what plugin do you have that could be mucking this up? Cuz this process, out of the box, works exactly like it does on wordpress.com.

I have no “User Permissions” type plugin installed or any plugin that could possibly muck this up.

When people go to https://www.main.com/subsite/wp-login.php and then click on Register, a page opens up at https://www.main.com/wp-signup.php instead of https://www.main.com/subsite/wp-signup.php

Could this be the problem?

PS. Web addresses are fictional.

What plugins DO you have?

All In One SEO Pack
AZIndex
Change Default Email
Exclde Pages From Navigation
Fast Secure Contact Form
Lightbox 2
Page links to
Rounded Tag Cloud
Share This
WP-Ecommerce
WP_Recaptcha

I have gone through deactivating each one then trying to register as a new user under a subsite but I still get the same problem.

You de-activated all of them at once, right? Sorry about being pedantic but it really does matter ??

You also made sure to rename the mu-plugins folder and disable those as well?

I deactivated all at once then tried to register but I could still edit the main site. Non of the plugins are activated across the network.

Where is the mu-plugins folder?

@Adrea_r

After doing some digging, I found this which solved my problem thanks to you.

I can now assign add a user myself via Super Admin then assign that user Admin privileges to a Subsite.

However, that user I added, also has privileges for my main site so I just log in as admin to the main site, find the user and make the user a Subscriber thus removing all privileges to the main site.

This is not ideal but works, I would rather just remove the users privileges from the main site completely but I keep getting a box saying:
ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS?
PLEASE TRY AGAIN.

Solved:

Remove User from site = users>users>delete user

When people go to https://www.main.com/subsite/wp-login.php and then click on Register, a page opens up at https://www.main.com/wp-signup.php instead of https://www.main.com/subsite/wp-signup.php

Could this be the problem?

this is how it works by default – users sign up to the main site. they are pseudo-subscribers by default. you then have to add them to the site you want, as you found out.

If you;re on the main site and bump the user to admin – that;s why they are admin on the main site.

Go to Sites, find the subsite, click EDIT, then add a user that way.

users sign up to the main site. they are pseudo-subscribers by default

Hi Andrea, mind explaining “pseudo” subscribers? It’s been a while, and I don’t expect you to remember, but you helped me a couple times during our original WPMU migration.

At that time we used a custom dsader “New User” plugin, which automatically added all new registered users as subscribers to the main blog/site. I’m wondering if this is no longer needed in mu-plugins. (We’re now running WP 3.0.4.)

With nearly 2000 users now, and more joining every day I fear the main site may be getting bloated with users affecting performance (if that’s even possible) but we do need them to be users of the main site so they automatically become members of the SimplePress forums running there.

Thanks again for your time!

Then you’ll still need it. ??

(Yeah, I remember your username. As long as you don;t change avatars too much I’ll remember that too ?? )