New Wordpress users

If there are few users/admins of your Wordpress website, there is possibly need to setup priviliges for all of them. In this short tutorial, you will be able to create a new users for same WP page and assign abilities for all of them.

Adding new users

In order to add a new user in Wordpress, you need to go to Admin panel for your page. On the left side of admin panel you will find label Users, click and go to Add new.

New user window

You need to fill following fields:

- Username: You can put anything in this field, people often enter their nick (this is required field)

- E-mail: Enter your email (this is required field)

- First Name: Enter your name

- Last Name: Enter your last name

- Website: If there is another website you would like others to know, enter URL here

- Password: If you want your account to be secured and safe, enter strong password, which contains uppercase letters or numbers within characters (this is required field)

- Repeat Password: You need to enter your password here again and you will see how strong is it (this is required field)

- Send Password: If you mark this field, password will be sent to email you entered. This could be useful in case you forget or want to change password after some time

- Role: In this field you can determine which priviliges will this user have:

·         Subscriber: Can only manage his account or leave a comment

·         Contributor: User can write or edit articles/posts but he can't publish them. After publishing post, contributor could not edit it anymore. Also, he can not upload images or documents to the page

·         Author: Author can edit, publish or delete posts and, also, he can upload image or document

·         Editor: Editor can edit, publish or delete any post or page, approve or edit any comment, edit menus or categories, upload image or database

·         Administrator: All priviliges and abilities, including deleting of everything, customizing themes and menus etc.

This is all info needed to complete Add new user info. Before you create account for anyone, think carefully about his role, because any mistake could cost you very bad. As administrator, you can always change user info and priviliges in General settings.

Users can login to Wordpress page by adding /wp-admin to destinated page. For example www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin.