How to remove original admin – wordpress site

  • Hi,

    So there are a couple of us as admins on a group site that we’ve worked on together. The person who actually started it (i.e. they did the original set up) has quit and is impossible to contact for quite a while and we just want to streamline permissions.

    I believe we are all equal admins currently, is it possible just to remove him? (Indeed, how can I tell who is a super admin and who is just a normal admin?)And if we do that will he be able to become an admin again without our permission?

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  • Hi – Be sure to back up your site before making any changes.

    If this is a single site (and not a bunch of networked sites) you don’t have to worry about Super Admin.
    If you are also an administrator you can delete them. They can not add themselves back in once you delete them.

    Summary of Roles
    Super Admin – somebody with access to the site network administration features and all other features. See the Create a Network article.

    Administrator – somebody who has access to all the administration features within a single site.

    Editor – somebody who can publish and manage posts including the posts of other users.

    Author – somebody who can publish and manage their own posts.

    Contributor – somebody who can write and manage their own posts but cannot publish them.

    Subscriber – somebody who can only manage their profile.

    Upon installing WordPress, an Administrator account is automatically created.

    The default role for new users can be set in Administration Panels > Settings > General.

    Hope this helps….Remember, backups are your friend. ??

    Thread Starter eacutetape

    (@eacutetape)

    Ours is just a single sit, I think, with a single URL. What would a bunch of networked sites look like? I presume we’d know if it were a bunch of networked sites?

    And do super admins never exist on single sites?

    Also one other thing I’ve thought of. Probably will never be an issue given that he has lost interest, but given that he set it up, I guess he technically owns the URL. Can that ever prove an issue?

    Correct – you would know if you had multiple sites.

    You can check a users role by looking here:
    Administration Panels > Users > All Users

    You can try to look up the owner of the domain name here:
    https://whois.net/

    It’s important you own the URL….and have control over the hosting.

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