Once you have made your decisions, you'll have to add those new users to your site, so let's talk a bit about ...
User management in Wordpress
I know ... At this point is not your biggest concern, but trust me, once your site is up and running you'll need to add and manage users on almost daily basis. So, let's see how can you that ...
When you select "Users" in the admin menu, you'll get a full list of all the registered users on your site. Well, right now you are the only person on that list ...
... but don't worry, they'll come ...
When you want to add a new user you can use the "Add New" button in the index view or the "Add New" link in the admin menu:
You'll be take to a page where you can set up your brand new user:
Finally, hit the "Add New User" button.
And now your user list looks like this:
The password will be auto-generated by Wordpress and sent to the given user by email. Of course, if you want, you can enter your own predefined password before you click the "Add New User" button.
Now if you want to change his role, you need to click the "Edit" link under his username in order to access the page where you - as administrator - will be able to give him a new role:
Finally, sometimes you will want to delete certain users. Yep, it happens ... As you can guess, in this case you'll have to click the "Delete" link under his username.
Also, you should know, that if you choose to delete a user who already has some published posts, you'll have the possibility to re-attribute his posts to another existing user (in case that you don't want to delete that content).
And don't forget: deleting a user is always the final solution. Before you do that you can always try to adopt a non-definitive approach, for example downgrading his role to subscriber or simply generating a new password for his account (without notifying him).
And that's it my friends!
If you have any comments, further questions or update requests please don't hesitate to react!
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)