Now that the default admin user has a strong password, you're ready to create a user account for yourself. Are you excited? You're getting so close to blogging that I can almost taste it.
To add a new user (in this case, yourself), follow these steps:
1. Click the Users hyperlink in the top-right corner of the Control Panel. The Manage Users panel opens.
2. In the Add New User part below the list of current users, enter the following required information:
3. Choose a role from the Role drop-down menu.
4. Click the Add User button.
WordPress has five user roles that you can assign to any user-one role per user. These roles define what a particular user can and can't do. Here are the five roles, in decreasing order of power:
Each role sees, and can access, different things in WordPress's Control Panel.
Administrator
An Administrator has the power to do anything on the WordPress Blog. This user can activate and deactivate plug-ins; modify themes; create and delete users; set global blog preferences; and delete, edit, and schedule all blog posts. The admin user that the WordPress installation creates has an Administrator user role, as should the first user account you create for yourself. If you're going to have other people blogging with you, chances are that they should have one of the other, less powerful roles.
Editor
The Editor role is one step below the Administrator role. Although a user with Administrator privileges has access to both sides of the blog-the technical side and the content side-a user with Editor privileges has full control of content only. An Editor can create blog posts, comments, hyperlinks, and pages, as well as edit anything that another user creates. This person can even edit content that is created by an Administrator. In a multiauthor blogging environment, give this role to someone who's in charge of all aspects of content, sort of like an editor-in-chief of a newspaper. This person can decide what gets published when.
Author
The Author role is even more focused on WordPress Blog content than the Editor role. An Author can write and publish blog posts, as well as edit any comments on those blog posts. This person can't edit or approve comments on other people's work, however. This role is suited for someone who can serve as a staff writer. You trust this user to write well and publish only things that are worthy of your WordPress Blog.
Contributor
I like to think of the people in Contributor roles as freelancers working on assignment. They can write blog posts and create pages, but they can't publish anything themselves. Everything a Contributor user writes is submitted for review. The blog post is marked as pending review until a user in an Editor or Administrator role approves and publishes it. Contributors can't approve comments on their own blog posts or edit their own posts. Assign this role to people whom you're trying out on your WordPress Blog. As you gain confidence in their abilities, you can promote them to Authors.
Subscriber
As the name suggests, a person in the Subscriber role isn't able to create blog posts, edit users, or do any sort of administration of the WordPress Blog. You can set your WordPress Blog so that only registered Subscribers can post comments. You also can allow people to register themselves as users, generally in the Subscriber role. Subscribers can log in to the WordPress admin area, but they can only change their user information: set a new password or change a bio.
You don't have to add every user to your WordPress Blog manually. This process could get quite cumbersome if you require people to register with your site before they can leave comments. (If you get more than a few readers, you won't want to have to create their user accounts by hand.) Luckily, WordPress provides a way for people to register themselves. This feature is turned off by default, but you can enable it very simply. In the Add New User part of the Manage Users panel, you see a line that says Users cannot currently register themselves, but you can manually create users here. Clicking the words register themselves takes you to the General Settings page of your WordPress Blog. The Membership part has two check-box options:
You can also set the role for any user account registered in this fashion by making a choice from the New User Default Role drop-down menu. The default setting is Subscriber.
I suggest that you keep this menu set to Subscriber. You don't want random people to create their own blog posts on your WordPress Blog, and you certainly don't want just anyone to administer your WordPress Blog.
The WordPress user-registration feature was designed to combat comment spam-comments on your WordPress Blog that have no relevance to your WordPress Blog, posted only to add hyperlinks to other sites. Most of the time, actual people aren't leaving these comments; rather, software programs called bots trawl the Internet for WordPress Blogs. When bots find a WordPress Blog, they start hammering it with spurious comments, thereby creating comment spam. Because WordPress uses a well-known URL structure for the new user form, someone could craft a bot that signs up for several fake accounts on your WordPress Blog. These accounts could then be used to leave comment spam, though more often than not, the accounts are simply created and nothing more is done.
During the course of your WordPress Blog's life you may want to promote someone from a Contributor to an Editor, or make an Author into a Contributor just for fun. All you have to do is follow these steps:
1. Click the Users hyperlink in the Control Panel to open the Manage Users panel.
2. In the list of your WordPress Blog's users, check the box next to the user whose role you want to change.
3. From the Change Role To drop-down menu above the list of users, choose the new role you want to assign.
4. Click the Change button. That's it. Now the user now has more power.
Deleting a user is much like changing a user's role. Follow these steps:
1. Click the Users hyperlink in the Control Panel to open the Manage Users panel.
2. In the list of your WordPress Blog's users, check the box next to the user you want to delete.
3. Click the Delete button. The Delete Users panel opens. Because WordPress assumes that all that users are making content for your WordPress Blog, you have to tell it what you want it to do with this user's content.
4. Choose an option to specify what to do with the user's content. You have two choices:
Even if you delete all of a user's blog posts, comments on those posts will remain on display. If you want to get rid of all traces of that user on your WordPress Blog, you'll have to delete the comments on her blog posts manually. Keep in mind, though, that deleting comments generally is considered to be bad form unless the comments are abusive in some way. Use your power wisely.
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