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Creating an author account - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: WordPress for Education
Creating an author account
- Now there's one last thing we need to do and that's to create a separate authoring account for ourselves. Earlier in this title, we created our Admin account and that's the one that we've been using all along. It's got our last name -admin. That way we can always know that that's the account that we're using when we're building our site and we're managing any of the back-end infrastructure. But once we get all of this set up, we want to have an account that's dedicated just for our interactions with students and all of the postings that we're going to be making. The reason that we don't want to use our Admin account for this is that the Admin account has extra privileges and we can accidentally change something in our site that we may not be intending to do. Plus, it gives us that extra account that if something goes wrong with our site, we always have our backup account that we can access our site through. So to create your account, simply go down to the Users section, and click…
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