How to Create a New User in Wordpress
Hey everyone!
In this short video I am going to be guiding you through the process of creating a new user in WordPress. This is a vital step for personalizing your website and ensuring your content reflects your unique voice and brand.
Key Highlights of the Tutorial:
- Understanding Default Users: Learn about the default 'admin' user in WordPress and why it’s important to create a personalized user for content creation.
- Creating a New User: Step-by-step instructions on how to add a new user from the WordPress back office, including setting up a username and email.
- Assigning Roles: I’ll show you how to assign roles to your new user, focusing on the 'administrator' role for full site access and control.
- Personalization Tips: Insights on adding personal touches like first and last names, and linking a Gravatar account for a profile image.
- Bulk Editing Posts: Learn how to quickly update all existing posts to reflect the new user as the author, enhancing trust and personality on your site.
- Site Management: I'll also cover managing multiple users for larger websites with diverse content creators.
Whether you're just starting out or looking to enhance the professionalism and personal touch of your website, this is going to be a key step in terms of personalizing your website and creating "trust" with your end users.
Feel free to drop any questions or comments below, and I'll be happy to help you out. :)
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Hi Kyle..I kind of feel this training should be before the one on site comments and creating a gravatar, because it is needed for both of those tasks to be completed. I've been so confused wondering why there was no other 'user' showing in WordPress, thinking it should be there automatically or something lol, I am happy I decided to stop struggling and just move on to the next training because now I think I am sorted! Just thought it was worth a mention from a confused newbie, thank you.
Hi, Kyle, thank you for this class. I have tried to effect the changes from Admin to my real Name but I get that error message in the screenshot attached. Please advise on what I can do. It appeared to me as though I cannot use the same email account. Thank you
Hi Joseph. Each WordPress user must have a unique email address. I would suggest setting up some domain-specific email accounts, or you could also use "plus addressing" with Gmail. This means you can use your Gmail address, and put "+anything" after the main part. (Example: jfh69fuuna+user1@gmail.com, jfh69fuuna+user2@gmail.com).
I have understood all of this thus far, but I need some clarification: Can I have two emails for one domain? Why I am asking this question is that I have used my personal gmail account to set up all that is pertaining to running my website i.e., the analytics, GSC etc. Thank you for your assistance.
Joseph
Good morning good afternoon Kyle I was wondering if you can help me I just watched the lesson but it seemed like I can't get past the error on this one part i'm hoping you can help me get past it why is it saying error this would be greatly appreciated thank you.
Hello Abie I'm truly sorry to bother you at this time but I really need some assistance I'm a little confused with this now I have two users when I log into my website I'm trying to get rid of one or I can just start over and about the other issue that you showed me about I don't know how to just really go about it I'm trying to follow the instructions but it's just not working at this time but I ran You know it's a little frustrating being a beginner like I am but I'm hoping I'll get through this where I can further get into the lessons
1) Trying to remove the admin and put my name right there
2) Second if I could put my face on the second one that would be good too that's what I was trying to follow instructions and follow the videos but it's just not working out maybe I'm doing something wrong
3) regarding the email as you see I'm trying to put it in there but that's the email I have so if I'm doing something wrong please enlighten me this would be greatly appreciated thank you.
I created a new user in WP, but I didn't write down my username and password, which I can find anyway. Now, when I sign in to the back office, I get this screen. If I click on Admin, it goes right to WP, but if I click on Janice, it wants a username and password. What should I do?
Thank you for your help and advice. I clicked synchronize, but I was unsure if that was okay. Thanks for the reassurance.
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May I add my two cents worth:
When I first setup a Wordpress website I always create a new user as an administrator, then login as that new administrator/user and delete admin. If there are any pages or posts created before I do this as admin being the author then Wordpress asks if you wish to assign the user to your new administrator user during the deletion. I read along time ago that hackers attempt to gain access to your site using the admin as the user. And I see it happen often as I maintain a number of websites where I use a security plugin that reports and blocks these attempts.
Another point in this process is as I see someone else has noted you cannot use the same email address that was used when the Wordpress website was created. So get over that issue use another email address when setting up the new administrator user then once the original admin user is deleted you can change the email address of the new user. It will require a confirmation to take effect.
Cheers
Geoff
100% agree Geoff. An admin account on WordPress is a pretty big attack surface for bad actors. I also like to enable 2FA with the Wordfence plugin, although I haven't tried that yet with a site hosted at WA.