If you’ve implemented the Shared User Table trick in WordPress by defining CUSTOM_USER_TABLE and CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE in your wp-config file, then you’ve probably realized there is a serious draw back to this approach when building a blog network: Users who sign up on one blog do not get any privileges on any of the other blogs in your network. This is by design, but you don’t have to leave it at that.
That’s where WP-Orphanage comes in. With this plugin your orphan users can be adopted automatically, either when they log in or an admin visits the user list. Earlier versions defaulted to the Subscriber Role, but new in v1.0 is an Options panel to select the role you want to give these users. It can even differ from the default Role in the main WP Options, if you like.
WP-Orphanage is now available via the WordPress Plugin Directory, to take advantage of the auto-update feature. In addition, WP-Orphanage is also hosted on GitHub.com in case any developers want to contribute changes.
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