How to get 'WP Admin' Dashboard for added user
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Following five years of self-hosting, I have purchased the ‘Premium’ plan here and I am now trying to get things set up so I can move our small A.A. group’s website to here where people other than myself will be able to handle things ‘behind the curtain’. Alongside from my own personal account, I have made a ‘Members’ account and given it Admin status, but ‘WP Admin’ (the full Dashboard) is not available to that user. And so…
Is there any way to make that user account equal to my own as owner?
And if not, how can I either get a refund or else transfer my payment to the other user so it can have full Admin status equal to that of myself at the moment?
Many thanks!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Is there any way to make that user account equal to my own as owner?
Only one Admin per site is recommended with good reason. Read this please https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator
You cannot issue username account and passwords for any wordpress.COM hosted site. We bloggers do not have access to the database for wordpress.COM hosted sites. Those can only be done on a wordpress.ORG multi-site installation. If those capabilities are what you are seeking see: Moving to self hosted wordpress http://move.wordpress.com
What I post below applies only to sites hosted by wordpress.COM. If you wish to make some people official users of your WordPress.COM site with limited user roles read on.
See: Build a Membership Website Tutorial
https://en.support.wordpress.com/tutorials/build-a-membership-website-tutorial/You cannot password protect a whole wordpress.COM site. You can password protect posts and/ or pages on a site.
You can have either a public or a private WordPress.COM hosted blog and there is no limitation on the total number of contributors to any blog. If you’d like to invite others to publish posts or help approve comments on your blog, you can invite them to be a Contributor, Editor, or Author. Contributors cannot upload images. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.
Provided you are logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the site, to change blog visibility to Private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings. If you select option 1 then the blog will be a public one, available to all with internet access to read.
If you wish to add official users see these support docs:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-users-to-your-site
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-viewers-to-a-private-siteUsername accounts are required but registering blogs under them is not required. The invitees will have to register a WordPress.COM username account which requires an email address only, but they do not need to register a blog. That requirement is because the software has to be able to differentiate between hackers and official users and allow access only to those with username accounts and official roles on the blog.
If the person being invited to contribute to your blog does not already have one, he or she will have to register a WordPress.COM username account. He or she does not need to register a blog. There is a just a username please option. The invitees who lack username accounts select the “username only” option here: https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/?user=1
NOTE that as you have an account you would have to log out and clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies to witness the process as the invitees without accounts would experience it.
Upon receipt of the invitation, the invitee will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If the invitee is logged into their WordPress.com username account, he or she will be taken directly to your blog. If not, he or she will be taken to the log-in screen, where he or she can either log in, or can register a new WordPress.COM user account.
The invitees need to be logged into their WordPress.com account prior to clicking the “Accept Invitation” link.
Invitees who do create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#changing-user-rolesNote:
The number 10 is the number of outstanding invitations you can have at any point in time. That limitation is a spammer prevention measure. Wait until the invitees have registered and send out 10 more. -
Only one Admin per site is recommended with good reason.
Does that also mean it is not possible? And if so, then how can I get a refund or whatever so I can start over with the other account being the primary Admin?
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