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If you’re collaborating with multiple authors, working with an editorial staff, or requiring subscribers to create user accounts in order to comment, an understanding of the WordPress user roles is essential. This video will help you sort out your options by explaining the permissions associated with each role, and demonstrating how the WordPress administrative interface changes depending on a user’s role.
The video covers the current standard WordPress roles: Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, Subscriber
Thank you for this informative video on WordPress User Roles as well as the entire series. I am a new WordPress admin and these videos are the first resource that I think of when I need to learn about functionality.
Thank God, I have found this video tutorial.
I want to assign roles to my user but afraid of some security issue.
Thanks once again.
this article (and video) is exactly what i have been looking for. i am going to be teh administrator of a blog, with several authors, and this tells me exactly how to administer it.
many thanks
The clearest description of user roles I’ve found yet. Thank you.
A+……….
Thank you very much, this is a very clear and useful post.
Thanks, the video is self explanatory, I have a clear understanding regarding WordPress user roles.
Excellent video ! It simply couldn’t be better than this.
Well explained… Thanks for sharing this informative video…
That’s so much for the video tutorial. I was searching for the meaning of contributor because I have so many of them and wondering should I delete them all. You explained the five types of users very well.
Thanks everyone. The screencast has been updated with more recent screenshots.