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Update Site Owner

Update IU Blogs Site Owner

An IU Blog site owner is the primary contact for their site. This includes receiving communications from the IU Blogs Administrators and the Digitial Strategy Initiative. Do not assign a group account as an IU Blogs site owner.

The site owner is determined by the person who created the site and must be manually changed by a site administrator. The site owner does not change automatically when a person leaves IU or changes positions.

The Process

The following outlines the process for updating an IU Blogs site owner.

  1. A site administrator changes the site owner’s email address in the IU Blogs site settings.
  2. The new site owner will receive an email from IU Blogs marked [external] with a confirmation link.
  3. The previous site owner will receive a notification email when the new site owner clicks the confirmation link. The change process is now complete.

Update Steps

The following steps and images describe updating the site owner’s email address. This example assumes we want to change the site owner from “zachstei@iu.edu” to “blog@iu.edu.”

  1. Navigate to your IU Blogs site. In this example, the site is the IU Blogs Demonstration Blog.
  2. Click “Dashboard” from the “My Sites” menu.
A screenshot of the IU Blogs Demonstration site's homepage. There is a yellow arrow pointing to the admin navigation.

 

3. Click the “Settings” link in the left column menu.

A screenshot of the IU Blogs Demonstration site's Dashboard. A yellow arrow points to the left navigation "Settings" link.

 

4. Change the email address in the “Administration Email Address” text field to the new site owner’s Indiana University email address.

A screenshot of the IU Blogs Demonstration site's Setting page. A yellow arrow points to the text input field for the site owner's email address.

 

5. The new site owner will receive an email requiring them to click a confirmation link. Until this is done, you will see a notice that says, “There is a pending change of the admin email.”

A screenshot of the IU Blogs Demonstration site's settings page with a yellow box surrounding warning text. The warning text is telling the administrator that the site owner's email address change is pending confirmation.

 

6. Refresh the page after the new site owner clicks the link in their confirmation email. The pending change notice will now be gone.

A screenshot of the IU Blogs Demonstration site's Setting page. A yellow arrow points to the text input field for the site owner's email address.

 

Support

Is something not working as expected? Please send questions to the IU Blogs Administrators.

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