How to add, remove or manage users in WordPress
There are five different levels of access and privileges for Users to your WordPress Blog, they are as follows;
- Administrator - has access to all the administration features
- Editor - can publish posts and pages.An Editor can also manage posts as well as manage other people’s posts, pages and comments. An Editor can manage, add and remove links from the Wordpres Blogroll (Links Directory)
- Author - can publish and manage their own posts and can manage comments on their own posts. An Author cannot publish or manage pages.
- Contributor - Somebody who can write and manage their posts but not publish posts. Contributors posts must be approved (or published) by an Editor or Administrator. A Contributor cannot publish or manage pages.
- Subscriber - Somebody who can read comments, make comments and receive news letters, etc.
You can manage your blog’s users from the WordPress admin area, in the Users section.
You must log in as an Administrator to be able to add and manage Users.
Once you have logged in as an administrator click on the users tab in the left navigation column to open the Users menu.
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To add a new user, click the Add New button and fill in the user name, first and last name, email and password. Choose a role from the Role drop-down menu and click Add User to complete the user registration.
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You can manage existing users from the Authors & Users option in the Users section. From here you can change the role of a user or remove it from your blog.
Hold your cursor over the top of the user you want to edit and you will see the ‘Edit’ and ‘Delete’ options.
Once a User has been added he can change his display name or password by logging in and going to his profile