How to Add and Remove Someone as an Administrator of your Facebook Page

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As a business owner or blogger who has a Facebook page, there may come a time when you will want to ADD someone else as an administrator of your page.

Maybe you have hired additional staff, or have a close working relationship with someone.. and need an extra set of hands to run with the daily admin tasks of updating content, replying to comments, posting links to your website, managing advertising, etc.

There may also be a time when you will want to REMOVE or DELETE an administrator from your Facebook page.  Maybe an existing admin has left your company, or they have moved onto another project.

A lot of people ask me how to do this, so here is how..

Adding an Administrator

There are a few different ways you can add someone as an administrator of your Facebook page.

To get started you will need to login to Facebook.

Adding Fans as Administrators

If you want to add someone who Likes your page as an administrator, scroll down to their photos.. then click on See all,

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Scroll to the person that you want to make an admin.. then click on <Make Admin>,

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At the time of writing, Facebook do not have a quick way to jump to, scan or filter your fans.. which can be a real problem if your page has tens of thousands of people.

Click on <Make Administrator>,

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Once you have made this person an administrator, they will have the same control over your page as you do.

Successfully Added

(I have gotten this administrator to login to their Facebook account to show they have full admin rights)

As you can see this person is now an Administrator of The Social Media Guide.. the Manage Pages link is now enabled for them,

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After the new admin clicks on <Go to Page>,

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Your Facebook page is now available to them and.. like you.. they also have full control of it,

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Adding Friends as Administrators

To add one of your friends as an administrator of your Facebook page, click on Edit (under your page’s picture),

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In the Admin section (on the right-hand-side), click on Add,

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Now select your friend(s) that you want to add as an administrator,

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Adding Administrators via Email

Admins can also be added via email simply by entering their email address,

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Removing an Administrator

There are a couple ways to remove an administrator from your Facebook page.

The Hard Way

You could re-scroll through all the people you Like your page again.. find that person.. then click on <Remove Admin>,

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Then click on <Remove Admin> again.. to remove them as an administrator of your Facebook page,

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The Easy Way

There is a much easier way to remove an admin from your Facebook page.

Click on <Edit Page> under your page’s picture,

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On the right-hand-side under the Admin section, find the administrator that you want to remove, then click on Remove Administrator,

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So there you have it!

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14 Comments

  1. RobynB says:
    20 January 2011 at 8:25 pm

    Question: I help manage pages for my clients, but I have to log in as my clients (under their personal accounts, which are linked to their pages) in order to set up their advertising, since it looks as if FB doesn't allow advertisers to manage multiple accounts (I have my own advertising dashboard for my own business page). So if my client wants to delete his personal page (the one attached to the business page), yet I'm still an admin for that page…who can set up ads (or would the business page "go away")? (Hope this makes sense.) This is a real-life example: I have a client who wants to delete his personal page and simply leave admin status to me and his wife…we're just worried the page will go away or we won't be able to set up ads.

    Any insight you have is welcome. Thanks for the great article!

    • Matthew Tommasi says:
      20 January 2011 at 9:51 pm

      Hi Robyn

      Thanks for the comment.

      Short answer is, I don't know.. as I have never tested this scenario.

      What I would recommend though is to firstly make sure there are at least two administrators on a client's FB Page.

      Then, I would try deactivating (ie NOT deleting) that client's FB profile.

      Once their profile has been deactivated, you should then be able to tell if their FB Page is still active or not.

      I don't believe that their Page would disappear as there are two administrators.

      If their Page does disappear, you could simply re-activate their Profile to (presumably) make the Page re-appear.

      These are the steps I would take for this scenario.

      This article may also help with deactivating a FB Profile – http://thesocialmediaguide.com/2009/07/25/delete-…

      Hope that helps!

  2. JC says:
    5 November 2010 at 2:01 pm

    I accidentally deleted myself as administrator and I am the only one on the account. There are no fans yet as I just started the page last night. But now NO ONE can access it.

    Any thoughts? I was wondering if I'm the first one to "like" my page, would they offer me the chance to be the page's administrator?

  3. Brian says:
    17 September 2010 at 10:48 am

    I accidentally deleted myself as an adminstrator. How can I get back in. Is the only way to hope and find someone that has admin capabilities to add me back as admin?

  4. Nikki Parkinson says:
    10 August 2010 at 1:52 am

    Hi Matthew

    Have you come across a way as yet to remove yourself as administrator if you set up the page? I made the mistake of setting up a page for a client, not realising I'd not be able to remove myself as admin. This seems to apply to the creator of the page only.

  5. Alex Posicionamiento says:
    9 August 2010 at 8:47 am

    There are a lot of articles in the internet and I am really impressed with this one. Facebook have a lot of features and new features in their social medial site but they lack explanation on how to do thing. It is true that people or users can figure it out by themselves but with this type of articles it would make things easier. And now, instead of just thinking about on how to earn more money, Facebook should give credits to these types of articles.

    Great work! Keep it up!

    Alex

  6. Susan Harding says:
    7 August 2010 at 10:16 am

    Thanks so much!!! I ask and you deliver!