WP-Orphanage Extended
Plugin to promote users with no roles set (the orphans) to the role from other blog where they registered or to default if any found.
5(5 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, WP-Orphanage Extended is a WordPress users plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: User Switching.
5/55 reviews
100active installs
7.8K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
Users who have not been assigned any Roles or Capabilities are called ‘orphans’.
When using the shared users table trick to link up multiple WordPress installations, users who register on one of your blogs, are not given any privileges on the other blogs in the network.
WP-Orphanage is a plugin that automatically adopts your orphan users by promoting them to the role of your choosing.
By default it is the same as the default role set in the WP Options.
It does it in two ways:
- Users who try to login to a different blog in the network than the one they signed up on, will be promoted at the time of login. The user won’t even know that it happened.
- When the admin logs into the blog and views the users page, all orphan users – for that blog – are promoted automatically.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.3
- Fixed security issue CSRF on settings page (reported by Wordfence)
- Fixed loading textdomain too early
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