WordPress User Roles Explained
User roles provide bloggers with an easy and flexible way to control access to various WordPress feature. Unfortunately the user role system can be confusing to new bloggers. Even experienced WordPress users are frequently baffled by the role system and the permissions that are associated with each role.
If you’re collaborating with multiple bloggers, working with an editorial staff, or requiring subscribers to create user accounts in order to comment, an understanding of the WordPress user role system 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
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Comments
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.
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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
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