User Guide

Adding New Users

Menu > Users > Add New

You can manually add a user to the site - typically done if you want to add a user

to be able to perform some sort of administration function. On creating a user,

you can enter a variety of information:

Username ! ! how they log in

Email address ! important that this is their email address

First Name ! ! erm, their first name

Last Name ! ! amazingly, their last name!

Website ! ! if you want to associate a website, enter the URL

Password ! ! entered twice to ensure you enter it correctly, and a

! ! ! strength indicator. Try to get passwords that are considered

! ! ! “Strong”.

Send Password? ! if you want a notification email sent.

Role ! ! ! there are five roles that you can choose from, that will allow

! ! ! the user to do different things on your site as follows:

Subscriber - Some websites allow unregistered members to comment

(for example), making a member a subscriber allows you to set your

website so that only subscribers can leave comments. By default,

WordPress will make new users to your site a subscriber.

Contributor - More powerful than subscribers as they can create

content on the blog. Via the dashboard they can read posts, create

and edit posts. They can also delete posts that have not yet been

published. Contributors can only change their own content.

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