From the course: WordPress: Creating an Intranet Website
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Manage roles and capabilities - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: WordPress: Creating an Intranet Website
Manage roles and capabilities
- [Instructor] In WordPress, what you can do as a user depends on the user role you have, and out of the box, there are five roles. Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, and Subscriber. The Super Admin role is only for WordPress multi-sites where you have multiple different sites under one WordPress install. From the bottom, Subscribers can only access the site and edit their own profiles. Contributors can create but not publish or edit their own content. Authors can create and edit their own posts and pages. Editors can edit other people's content. And Administrators can edit and control every aspect of the site and its contents. These user roles are used to control who can do what on the site and they can also be used to allow people different types of access on the site. For employees who only need site access, the Subscriber role is usually sufficient. For those who need to write and manage their own content, the…
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