April 2019
Beginner
848 pages
20h 39m
English
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Chapter 4
Management of Users and Access Control
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding default user management
Changing default user behavior
Exploring user access to site features
In Book 8, Chapter 3, I discuss the Network Admin menu of your Dashboard, which allows you to manage aspects of your network. In this chapter, I explain how to manage users across the network, including changing some of the default management options to suit your needs.
One of the hardest things for new network admins to understand is that although each site is managed separately, users are global. That is, after a user logs in, he’s logged in across the entire network and has the ability to comment on any site that has commenting enabled. (See Book 3, Chapter 2.) The user can visit the Dashboard of the main site in the install to manage his profile information and can access the Dashboard’s My Sites menu to reach sites that he administers. The user also registers at the main site — not at individual sites in the network.
Setting Default User Permissions
When you enable the Multisite feature, new site and new user registrations are turned off by default. But you can add new sites and users from the Network ...
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