Have allowed users to register their own website and at the same time this adds them as a user to that site.

However, is there a way to default them to a subscriber of the site they are signing up for rather than automatically adding them as a administrator.

I've looked around in the mess that is wp-signup.php and wp-activate.php and it doesn't look to specify them as an admin anywhere.

Thanks, Tom

Have allowed users to register their own website and at the same time this adds them as a user to that site.

However, is there a way to default them to a subscriber of the site they are signing up for rather than automatically adding them as a administrator.

I've looked around in the mess that is wp-signup.php and wp-activate.php and it doesn't look to specify them as an admin anywhere.

Thanks, Tom

• multisite
• users
• user-roles

• What would be the point of that? Why would anyone start a site if he can do nothing in it? – Mark Kaplun Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 18:23
• There are plenty of use-cases. But thanks for questioning my question. – CHEWX Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 19:45
• so many, you can't even list one..... doing something contrary to how core is designed to work is rarely a good thing. If you spell out your use case someone might offer you an alternative – Mark Kaplun Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 19:51
• It's a SaaS app. Different levels of service. The basic level only allows them to set-up a read-only website. Not that this will help the opening question. But for your curiosity. – CHEWX Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 19:53
• and how do they change the site, via user profile? – Mark Kaplun Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 20:01

2 Answers 2

Ok, so this isn't possible to do by default.

As I already had a hook for wpmu_activate_blog() I just created another with a lower priority which will be fired after. This function also has the 2 parameters I need. So upon activation of the account I simply remove Admin role and set a new role based of the subscription service level.

add_action( 'wpmu_activate_blog', array( $this,'set_new_user_role' ), 15, 2 );

public function set_new_user_role( $blog_id, $user_id ) {
    $user = new WP_User( $user_id, '', $blog_id );

    $user->remove_role( 'administrator' );

    // @NOTE - Set this role depending on user subscription level.
    $user->add_role( 'subscriber' );
}

You will need something like the multisite role management plugin. It allows you to define the user roles to have by default on a per blog basis, in a multisite setting