In Multisite – Allow Admins to Create Admin Role

[woodwardtw]

I’m running a multisite install and would like site admins to be able to create other admins.

Seems like it should be simple but I can’t seem to figure out how to do this.

[Vladimir]

Check if ‘Network Admin->Settings->User Role Editor->Multisite->Allow non super administrators to create, edit, and delete users’ option is turned on.

[woodwardtw]

It is and does not seem to allow the creation of admins.

[woodwardtw]

FWIW, I did this on a test server as well (with and without BuddyPress activated) and got the same result.

[Vladimir]

Does your test user has ‘Administrator’ role at this single site or you assigned him some custom role?

[woodwardtw]

The user has a standard admin role.

[Vladimir]

Thanks for the information.
User Role Editor allows to see ‘Administrator’ role in the roles drop-down list under WordPress multisite in 2 cases:
1) user has ‘manage_network_users’ capability.
But this gives to a user access to the “Network Admin -> Users”.
2) ure_supress_administrators_protection filter returns true.
In this case be careful, as non-admin users with ‘list_users’, ‘edit_users’ capabilities will can to edit users with ‘Administrator’ role and create other users with ‘Administrator’ role. So use this filter just in case you do not plan to have such users at your site.

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