Support Documentation

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Sites at Penn State and WordPress, from basic WordPress features to theme and plugin set-up instructions.

Transferring Ownership of a Site to Another User

As an Administrator of a site, you can make another user an Administrator by following the steps below:

  1. Go into the Dashboard of the site on which you want to change ownership
  2. Click on Users→All Users Dashboard
  3. Check the box next to the user for whom you’d like to change the role
  4. Using the Change role to… dropdown menu, select Administrator
  5. Click the Change button

Changing User Roles

Transferring Site Admin email address

The email address in Settings > General is where all comment moderation emails are sent. 

You transfer the admin email address as follow:

  1. Go to Settings > General.
  2. Add the new email address.
  3. Click Save Changes. 
  4. The person is sent an email and needs to confirm the change.  
  5. The person needs to log into their PSU Sites account and then click on the confirmation link to confirm the change of email address. 

Remove Myself from a Site

You can remove yourself from the site by following the remove yourself from multiple sites support documentation.