{"id":3338,"date":"2010-10-11T18:32:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T16:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2013-08-22T10:24:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T08:24:42","slug":"roles-and-user-management-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/roles-and-user-management-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Roles and User Management in WordPress – Tips, Tricks and Useful Plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article will cover different roles and user management in WordPress <\/strong>and some useful plugins to help maintain and Control Roles which every WordPress <\/strong>designer\/maintainer should know.<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/h2>\n

Though most of the blogs have one author many times blogs might require having multiple contributors. These contributors \/ guest authors might contribute with different articles to the blog. If a blog has multiple contributors then user management becomes necessary. User management helps to control the privileges each user might have in the blog.<\/p>\n

A multi \u2013 user blog also becomes very vital if there are different people at different geographical locations contributing to the blog. WordPress <\/strong>as a blogging platform has got good user management capabilities. Also there are plugins which help us to enhance the user management capabilities of our wordpress blogs.<\/p>\n

Adding New users<\/h2>\n

When WordPress <\/strong>is first installed,\u00a0a user with the admin role is created automatically. New users can be added to your WordPress<\/strong> blog in two ways, covered below.<\/p>\n

Administrator adding a new user<\/h2>\n

One can log in to the WordPress <\/strong>admin and the administrator can add new users to the WordPress <\/strong>blog.<\/p>\n

From you admin sections in the side menu use the Users section<\/em> .Under the Users section<\/em> you will see a link as Add new<\/em>. When that link is clicked the following screen will appear.<\/p>\n

\"Roles<\/p>\n

Enter the details for the new user like the username<\/em>, his email<\/em> and password <\/em>and click Add User<\/em> to add a new to your WordPress<\/em> blog. The role which you assign to the user will depend on what privileges you want to provide to the new user. Below in the article we will see what are the different user roles and there privileges.<\/p>\n

Once Add User<\/em> is clicked a new user will be created.<\/p>\n

\"Roles<\/p>\n

Users registering themselves<\/h2>\n

In WordPress you have and you can activate the option so users can register themselves. This option can be turned on from the General Settings<\/em> page in your admin section. You can also set the default role of any new user that registers (the admin can later change this role for that particular user).<\/p>\n

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Once this option is on, there would be a register link as shown below.<\/p>\n

\"Roles<\/p>\n

Using this link new users can register on your blog.<\/p>\n

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Different Roles in WordPress<\/h2>\n

Administrator<\/h3>\n

The Administrator is the person who can do all administrative tasks in WordPress<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The privileges of a WordPress administrator :<\/p>\n