WordPress MU

When a person adds an account without blog, confirms email and then tries to log in from the (in my test) main page, he gets a "You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page." message.
Although this is not an error, as the user cannot enter the admin area of his non-existing blog, it might still be confusing. And also, he cannot change his details (like adding a capital to his name, as most usernames are in lowercase).

Well, just my thoughts.

I remember having this reported over in WP.com land and trying to convince Podz that it was an issue since one couldn't change one's password. Can't remember what every became of it.

For people without blogs their first experience is that they get an error message as soon as they sign in.

Is there a switch to disable the "only give me a username" option? At least that would keep people away from the error message while I figure out a proper solution.

you can just comment out

<input id="signupuser" type="radio" name="signup_for" value="user" />
<label for="signupuser"><?php _e('Just a username, please.') ?></label>

for the time being.. in wp-signup.php so that it doesn't appear in the signup page

That's how WP.com ran for quite sometime. The major reason why it was done I think was that's also how one gets a Akismet key.

Did anyone get a resolution to this? I have this same problem with my new blog... can't seem to find any answers to fix it...

Subscribers can only access there profile from the blog the singed up with.

I have a temporary "fix" for this issue -- basically it will send non-blogging users to the site home page where it would previously have sent them to the error message. I don't have anywhere handy to put it at the moment though. Happy to put it somewhere if anyone can suggest a good spot though.

wpmudev.org
wpmuwiki.org

Either/or.

I agree, this is a confusing message and a redirect is better than nothing.

'nwp' did you post you temporary fix?

Have just posted it at http://www.wpmuwiki.org/WPMU_Non-blog-user_Login_Patch

I'm surprised this issue isn't on the trac. A generic user should at least be able to change their password.

Did anything become of this?

I really need users without a blog to be able to edit their profile for my new site to function properly.

There's a hack floating around that adds users that just get a username to the main blog (as subscribers).

As a note WordPress.com adds them to a blog they call dashboard, vice adding them to the main blog.

I found this here: http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2292&replies=20

OPEN:

wp-includes/registration.php

FIND:

function wp_insert_user($userdata) {

FURTHER DOWN, FIND:

if ( $update )
do_action('profile_update', $user_id);
else
do_action('user_register', $user_id);

AFTER, ADD:

add_user_to_blog('X', $user_id, 'XXroleXX');

Where:

X = The Blog ID you want to add the user to
XXroleXX = The role for the user 

What would the X and XXroleXX shown above be for the main blog, and user level "subscriber"?

Thanks

Donncha put this in the code awhile back:

http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/changeset/924

Thanks. BTW, how buggy is the latest trac version of MU?
Worth trying out?

Considering it's right after the version release, it's not too buggy. I do keep an eye on what's being reported for as tickets though.