Before anything else, you need to understand one thing: depending on how you interact with the Wordpress application, you'll be granted different roles and these roles will define your user capabilities.
It may sound mysterious, but it's a really simple thing. When you login to your website as an administrator you can access the back-end area which gives you full control, allowing you to create content, to install or uninstall components, to change settings, etc. On the other hand, if you visit your site using an incognito window or a different browser, you'll become an average user who has limited, predefined rights and capabilities.
In this training I am going to show you how to create new users, how to define different access levels for those users, how to customize certain user-related features, etc.
But, let's start with ...
Your own Wordpress user profile
When you are logged in you can see what profile you are currently using:
In order to edit it, you can click the "Edit My Profile" link or you can choose "Users -> Your Profile" from the admin menu. Either way, you'll be taken to the same user profile page where you can do two things:
- to modify the current information about your profile
- to define how Wordpress appears to you when you're logged in
Awesome training (as always) - thank you very much! ;-)
Zed, I've read somewhere (not on WA), that one should preferably publish your blogposts under a user with the bare minimum rights (ie user "Sharlee" with only Contributor rights) and then "approve" my posts through the back-end.
Their thinking was that in the event one's account/password get guessed, they can only get into the limited "contributor" profile.
Your thoughts on this, Zed? Is there any substance to their reasoning?
Looking forward to hearing from you! ;-)
Sharlee (Chocolate IceCream)
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If they guessed you password they have access to the admin area, so they can create a new admin user ...
Is there anything regarding to user rights, that we can do to make our WP websites safer? Or less vulnerable? (Whichever way one wants to look at it.) :-)
