User Roles in WordPress

WordPress uses user roles to control what each person can do on a website.

The standard WordPress roles are:

• Administrator: can manage the whole site, including settings, themes, plugins and users.
• Editor: can publish and manage posts, including posts written by other users.
• Author: can publish and manage their own posts.
• Contributor: can write and manage their own posts, but cannot publish them.
• Subscriber: can manage their own profile.

On a WordPress multisite network, there is also a Super Admin role. This role can manage the whole network of sites.

To change a user’s role:

1. Log in to your WordPress admin area.
2. Go to Users.
3. Select All Users.
4. Tick the user you want to change.
5. Choose the new role from the Change role to menu.
6. Select Change.

Only give users the level of access they need. Administrator access should be limited to people you trust to manage the whole site.