Understanding Different Roles Of User Groups In WordPress
Its necessary that you understand the roles of different user groups in wordpress better and its really basic. By default wordpress comes with five user groups or roles that you can assign to your users or staffs or the person whom you have hired to produce contents for your blog. You can check out these roles when you get in to “add new” under users options in your admin panel.
So lets go through what powers these user groups have in wordpress.
Subscriber:
These users will not have any power over creating new blog posts or editing them or editing your comments or whatever but you can set your blog in such a way that only registered users can comment on your blog posts and you can set the role of those registered users to subscribers. We will discuss about this in another article but for now just know that subscribers don’t really have any special power in wordpress, they are just subscribers.
Contributor:
Contributors can write posts and even have the permission to create pages but they won’t have any permission to publish them directly, their created posts and pages will be submitted for review so that only administrator can publish those articles and contents after review.
Author:
Author will have the power to write articles and also even has the power to publish them and moderate comments on the articles he has published himself though he will not have any permission to edit or moderate others posts and comments on others post as well, so its well suited to those who hire to write articles on your blog.
Editor:
We can say editor is one step above the Author as he has the privilege to create posts, pages and publish them directly and he has the power to edit others posts and also moderate others comments as well so this role is well suited for someone who you appoint to moderate the contents on your blog, he plays a role similar to a newspaper editor although he will not have access to the technical side of the blog like adding new plugins or themes.
Administrator:
Administrator has full control over the blog, he has full control over the content part of the blog and also technical side of it like adding or removing new plugins, creating new themes, editing the blog files etc.. So this is the role which you as a owner of the blog should hold and you can assign this role to someone who is going to be your partner technically or officially whatever.
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