Finding and Adding Users to a WordPress Site
Finding Users
Administrators can search for users on the site. They can do this to find a user, make changes to a user profile (including the role and expiration date) or delete a user. Be absolutely certain before you delete a user from the site. They can also see how many posts have been published under the users name.
Adding Users
Administrators can add users to a WordPress site. The user may be new to your network or may already be a user on another WordPress site on your network. The following slides explain how to add both types of users, how to set their roles, and how to add an expiration date for that user if that’s appropriate. Note that ICT (at USask) will be involved on the back-end for the addition of users new to the USask network.
User Roles
As mentioned earlier, you can assign users to different roles depending on what you want them to be able to do. Roles include:
- Administrator – can do everything on the individual site for which they are in that role.
- Editor – can publish and manage all posts and pages on a site
- Author – can publish and manage their own posts and pages on a site
- Contributor – can write their own posts and pages but cannot publish them (an Editor or Administrator needs to approve them)
- Subscriber – can only read content from the site and manage their own profile
If you requested the site, you will automatically be made an “Administrator”. You can change the rolls of other users on your site. You may wish to make your teaching assistant(s) an “Editor” for your site so that they can help learners use the site and can remove posts or comments when necessary.
The role of “Author” or “Contributor” are good for students, depending on the class, how you’re using WordPress within the class, and their familiarity with WordPress. Subscriber is a good role to change users to when they are no longer attached to that class.
