{"id":3933,"date":"2026-06-02T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/user-roles-in-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:00:31","slug":"user-roles-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/user-roles-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"User Roles in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress uses user roles to control what each person can do on a website.<\/p>\n<p>The standard WordPress roles are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Administrator<\/strong>: can manage the whole site, including settings, themes, plugins and users.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Editor<\/strong>: can publish and manage posts, including posts written by other users.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Author<\/strong>: can publish and manage their own posts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contributor<\/strong>: can write and manage their own posts, but cannot publish them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Subscriber<\/strong>: can manage their own profile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On a WordPress multisite network, there is also a <strong>Super Admin<\/strong> role. This role can manage the whole network of sites.<\/p>\n<p>To change a user&#8217;s role:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to your WordPress admin area.<\/li>\n<li>Go to <strong>Users<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>All Users<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Tick the user you want to change.<\/li>\n<li>Choose the new role from the <strong>Change role to<\/strong> menu.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Change<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Only give users the level of access they need. Administrator access should be limited to people you trust to manage the whole site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress uses user roles to control what each person can do on a website. The standard WordPress roles are: Administrator: can manage the whole&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[37],"class_list":["post-3933","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3933\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}