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How do I manage users?

March 3, 2017 by a-mchildress

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How do I manage users on my site as a site administrator?
There are five roles that you can assign to people who you want to blog with: Subscriber, Contributor, Editor, Author, or Administrator.

Important:

    Please be careful of the roles you give users on your site. If you add a user as an administrator, you are granting them full access. This means that she/he will be able to delete pages, posts, themes, etc…

What do each of the user groups have access too?

CapabilitySubscriberContributor AuthorEditorAdministrator
CapabilitySubscriberContributor AuthorEditorAdministrator
Read all public posts and pages
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Edit and delete posts
-
✓
✓
✓
✓
Delete published posts
-
-
✓
✓
✓
Publish posts
-
-
✓
✓
✓
Upload media
-
-
✓
✓
✓
Edit and delete any posts or pages
-
-
-
✓
✓
Manage tags
-
-
-
✓
✓
Manage categories
-
-
-
✓
✓
Moderate comments
-
-
-
✓
✓
Edit themes
-
-
-
-
✓
Manage users
-
-
-
-
✓

How do I add a user?
If you’re an Administrator and you’d like to make someone a Subscriber, Contributor, Author, or Editor on your site, go to Users → Add User. Fill their EWU NetID for username and select the role you wish to give them using the dropdown.

How do I change a user role?
As an Administrator of a site, you can change other users’ roles by following the steps below.

Head to Users → All Users in your WordPress admin.
Click “Edit” below the user’s avatar.
Using the Role dropdown menu, select the new user role you want to assign.
Click “Update User”.

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