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, so tonight i created the gravatar and moved forward with adding my new user.
I also went back in to my privacy policy and updated my email there as well to the new user email address. Was this a necessary step, or was I just being redundant and the emails from my default would have sent them to my new user?
Yeah, you got that right. It is a good idea to update all of your other emails as well once you have a domain specific email address. So by all means. :)
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.
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
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Somethings in the this program feel back to front a wee bit I was stressing hard over something so small and that was
why??? was Kyle's Kyle and not the same as mine admin
I was pulling my hair out
Also on the core content in the very first section you have create your first post why was it there and not in the second section as you here are establishing your brand and just setting up but yet posting before it
For me this was an issue that shouldn't had been
Is this just a me thing or has anyone else feel the same way
This is for the Gravita section and the getting started core trainning section
The reason it is first is that Google and the other search engines have to find it and to do that there has to be something to be found. Nothing is random in the training