Difficulty in making an author the administrator
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I have a blog on custom domain. I’m the administrator of the said blog. I’ve added an author to this blog. This ‘author’ is a fictitious one created by me using another email address as I don’t want viewers to relate me (the administrator having a gravatar) with this blog.
Now I want to make this fictitious author the administrator and want to remove myself from the blog but it’s telling me ‘cheating? huh!’
I am able to change the role of this author into administrator but then I see two administrators :p
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Do you see the “cheating? huh” message when you go to Users > All Users > move mouse over you username > Remove ?
May be log out of all your dashboards, log back in and try to remove the administrator.
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@chaintanyamsv, Thanx!
Now I know what the problem is… Users having multiple accounts, tens of blogs and multiple email IDs are sure to get stuck someday! :)
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Cool, I suspected you may have multiple accounts :)
Glad, you are able to find the problem and fix it!
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Nah.. Chaitanya. No success.
I turned the fictitious author into administrator. There were then two administrators.
Then I logged out from my account and logged into the fictitious account. I tried hard to remove or change the role of my account name (themishnish) but got this response:
“You can’t edit this user”.
I guess this doesn’t work in blogs having a domain upgrade.
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> I guess this doesn’t work in blogs having a domain upgrade.
This may be true possibly because the domain is purchased under the original administrator account.Let’s wait until staff responds.
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Your best bet may be to transfer ownership to that user:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/transferring-a-site-to-another-wordpress-com-account/
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