{"id":470,"date":"2023-12-22T14:20:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T14:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/help\/?p=470"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:42:26","slug":"adding-and-updating-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/help\/2023\/12\/22\/adding-and-updating-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding and Updating Users"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the networked environment, because we have multiple users working on multiple sites, individual site administrators have limitations on what they can do with users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An admin can remove a user entirely from the site in quetion, but they cannot update a user&#8217;s profile, nor can they remove from other sites in the network (unless they administer them). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only the user can update their personal profile. The reason for this is that a lot of security info is associated with those profiles, including the 2 factor authentication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commonly you might set up a user as an author, and have an editor approve their drafts and publish them. But lets say the author graduates to being an editor?  In a standalone wordpress environment the admin has full rights to update an amend any other user. Not so in a networked enviroment. So in order to upgrade a user to a fresh role, you will need to first remove the user and then add them back with the new role. Only the site admin has these powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the networked environment, because we have multiple users working on multiple sites, individual site administrators have limitations on what they can do with users. An admin can remove a user entirely from the site in quetion, but they cannot update a user&#8217;s profile, nor can they remove from other sites in the network (unless&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-cover.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faq","tw-post-has-image-16-9","tw-meta-no-icon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccan.scot\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}