About BarbaraOwens
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Native Italian, I moved to the US 3. 5 years ago for love, and I became a Navy wife. We move very often and is

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Hello everyone,
I don't understand why creating a new user on Wordpress, can't you just edit the Admin? I just changed "Admin" to my name, and my posts show my name as the a

Thanks for asking this question Barbara. I'm wondering the same thing. For now I'm a single-person operation, and adding a new user seems unnecessary.

Even if you eventually want others to contribute, you could just add a new user then.

It's a bit more personal having your name show up instead of admin...

Yes, that's why I edited "Admin" to "Barbara".

happy writing is having a good lesson

The purpose is to allow other people to access the dashboard in various different roles. EG if you have someone else that you want to write posts for you then they have a user id with a role of say Editor - they can do some things but not everything the admin can do.

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Create a new user on wordpress or edit the admin?

Create a new user on wordpress or edit the admin?

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Hello everyone,
I don't understand why creating a new user on Wordpress, can't you just edit the Admin? I just changed "Admin" to my name, and my posts show my name as the a

Thanks for asking this question Barbara. I'm wondering the same thing. For now I'm a single-person operation, and adding a new user seems unnecessary.

Even if you eventually want others to contribute, you could just add a new user then.

It's a bit more personal having your name show up instead of admin...

Yes, that's why I edited "Admin" to "Barbara".

happy writing is having a good lesson

The purpose is to allow other people to access the dashboard in various different roles. EG if you have someone else that you want to write posts for you then they have a user id with a role of say Editor - they can do some things but not everything the admin can do.

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