Roles allow users of the site to include the citizens in the operation and maintenance of facilities. The users you add to your site may have different tasks.
Users Roles
Users can get a variety of roles (privileges) work on the site as follows:
- Administrator (Admin) – the main roles. The owner of this role ma highest level of access to content and the only limitation is his knowledge of the CMS platform Wordpres. The most common one has had this level of privilege. The most important privilege it is to manage other users. There are also the following options: Update installation, shift control panel, user management (adding, editing, scrolling, remove, delete and promotion), import and export content
Customization, modification of source files
management settings installations
Manage Add-ons (installation, updating, modification, activation, delete) Management issues (installation, update, modify, cancel, delete).
- Editor – user with this role can write and publish your articles, it can also open and edit existing articles for the purpose of editing, correcting errors in the texts of the following: Manage pages (read, modify, delete – private, other published, own), Management Articles (read, modify, delete – private, other), category management moderate comments, manage links.
- Author – user with this role can write an article to load the file and publish it.
- Contributor– is a user who can write an article or it may not be disclosed. That article can publish (accept) or reject the higher level.
- Subscriber – the user with the lowest level of privileges. These users can only read the contents.
Those roles are arranged in a hierarchy so that all of the following means privileges.
Refine the privilege
Those roles in WordPress give users exactly certain privileges that can not be changed. It can get in the way when, for example, you have a greater number of contributors who write articles, but can not upload photos and publish articles. If you find it hard to add images to each article collaborative and co-workers do not want to “improve” the authors, it will help with the installation of add-ons which you will be able to change user privileges.
One on the most popular supplements for the management of user roles and privileges WordPress is “User Role Editor”. Using this plugin you can easily modify the privileges of existing roles, determine the specific privileges for each user, as well as create completely new roles, all based on your needs. In the case of associates, you can include the option of setting files, and all other privileges will remain the same, this article will go for moderation before publication.
Similarly, if a particular author of articles published by the wrong days, but it can exclude the possibility of publication. Then you or the editor to decide on the time of publication, and the author will retain all other privileges.
As you can see, “User Role Editor” provides a lot of opportunities to fine-tune the role of users in its free version, but in the paid Pro version, you’ll get a lot of advanced settings and turn off the advertisements that appear on the admin page.
How to add new users to the site?
Adding new users to the site and manage their roles is simple. In the section “Users“, select “Add New“, enter the email address of that person and specify her role. On her email address will be sent an invitation and, if accepted, will be able to perform the assigned role, until her same does not change or take away.