Title: Network Admin Settings Screen Published: April 25, 2023 Last modified: September 23, 2026 --- # Network Admin Settings Screen ## In this article * [Operational Settings](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/multisite/admin/settings/?output_format=md#operational-settings) * [Registration Settings](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/multisite/admin/settings/?output_format=md#registration-settings) * [New Site Settings](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/multisite/admin/settings/?output_format=md#new-site-settings) * [Upload Settings](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/multisite/admin/settings/?output_format=md#upload-settings) * [Language Settings](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/multisite/admin/settings/?output_format=md#language-settings) * [Menu Settings](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/multisite/admin/settings/?output_format=md#menu-settings) [ Back to top](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/multisite/admin/settings/?output_format=md#wp--skip-link--target) The **Network Admin Settings** is where a network admin sets and changes settings for the network as a whole. The first site is the main site in the network and network settings are pulled from that original site’s options. ![The Network Settings screen, showing the Operational, Registration, New Site, Upload, Language, and Menu settings sections](https://i0.wp.com/raw.githubusercontent. com/WordPress/Advanced-administration-handbook/main/assets/network-admin-settings. png?ssl=1) ## 󠀁[Operational Settings](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/multisite/admin/settings/?output_format=md#operational-settings)󠁿 **Network Name** What you would like to call this website. **Network Admin Email** Registration and support emails will come from this address. An address such as _support@example.com_ is recommended. ## 󠀁[Registration Settings](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/multisite/admin/settings/?output_format=md#registration-settings)󠁿 **Allow new registrations** Disable or enable registration and who or what can be registered. (Default is disabled.) * Registration is disabled. (default) * User accounts may be registered. * Logged in users may register new sites. * Both sites and user accounts can be registered. **Registration notification** Send the network admin an email notification every time someone registers a site or user account. **Add New Users** Allow site administrators to add new users to their site via the “Users -> Add New” page. **Banned Names** Users are not allowed to register these sites. Separate names by spaces. **Limited Email Registrations** If you want to limit site registrations to certain domains. Enter one domain per line. **Banned Email Domains** If you want to ban domains from site registrations. Enter one domain per line. ## 󠀁[New Site Settings](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/multisite/admin/settings/?output_format=md#new-site-settings)󠁿 **Welcome Email** ``` The welcome email sent to new site owners. Dear User, Your new SITE_NAME blog has been successfully set up at: BLOG_URL You can log in to the administrator account with the following information: Username: USERNAME Password: PASSWORD Login Here: BLOG_URLwp-login.php We hope you enjoy your new blog. Thanks! --The Team @ SITE_NAME ``` **Welcome User Email** ``` The welcome email sent to new users. Dear User, Your new account is set up. You can log in with the following information: Username: USERNAME Password: PASSWORD LOGINLINK Thanks! --The Team @ SITE_NAME ``` **First Post** The first post on a new site. ``` Welcome to SITE_NAME. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! ``` **First Page** The first page on a new site. **First Comment** The first comment on a new site. **First Comment Author** The author of the first comment on a new site. **First Comment URL** The URL for the first comment on a new site. ## 󠀁[Upload Settings](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/multisite/admin/settings/?output_format=md#upload-settings)󠁿 **Site upload space** Limit total size of files uploaded to [ 50 ] MB. **Upload file types** The default list is populated by WordPress during network setup from `get_allowed_mime_types()`, which covers common image, video, audio, text, document, archive, and Office formats. The exact set of extensions varies between WordPress versions as new types are added; to see the current default for your installation, check the `upload_filetypes` value in the `wp_sitemeta` table or inspect [`wp_get_mime_types()`](https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/functions.php) in WordPress core. Note: Adding arbitrary file types will not work unless a corresponding function is also hooked to [upload_mimes](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/upload_mimes/) filter. See the `wp_get_mime_types` function in [wp-includes/functions.php](https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/functions.php) for the current default set of supported mime-types / file extensions. Adding mime types in the ‘upload file types’ field not listed in the default set will **NOT** work unless you’ve added them using the [upload_mimes](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/upload_mimes/) filter! Uploading files with mime types not supported (without adding them using the filter) will fail with the message “Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons”. **Max upload file size** Default is [ 1500 ] KB. ## 󠀁[Language Settings](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/multisite/admin/settings/?output_format=md#language-settings)󠁿 **Default Language** Default is English. ## 󠀁[Menu Settings](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/multisite/admin/settings/?output_format=md#menu-settings)󠁿 **Enable administration menus** * Plugins On WordPress Multisite the default setting for plugins is disabled. This means your users won’t have access to the plugin admin panel inside their dashboard unless you first enable access to plugins network wide. First published April 25, 2023 Last updated September 23, 2026 Edit article [ Improve it on GitHub: Network Admin Settings Screen ](https://github.com/WordPress/Advanced-administration-handbook/edit/main/multisite/settings.md) Changelog [ See list of changes: Network Admin Settings Screen ](https://github.com/WordPress/Advanced-administration-handbook/commits/main/multisite/settings.md) [ Previous: Network Admin](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/multisite/admin/) [ Next: Migrate WordPress sites into WordPress Multisite](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/multisite/sites-multisite/)