When you set up a blog with multiple users you have the ability to assign and control what other users can do in the blog depending on the tasks you want each user to be responsible for.
You need to consider carefully what role you assign other users since Administrators are able to remove other users, including you, and editors can delete content.
The five roles a user can be assigned in decreasing level of responsibility are:
- Administrator – can do everything including complete power over posts, pages, plugins, comments, choice of themes, imports, settings, assign user roles and are even able to delete the blog.
- Editor – is able to publish posts/pages, manage posts/pages, upload files, moderate comments as well as manage other people’s posts/pages.
- Author – can upload files plus write and publish own posts.
- Contributor – can write own posts/pages but can’t publish them.
- Subscriber – can read comments and write comments.
To Change The Role of A User
- Go to Users > Authors & Users in your Dashboard
- Select the user you want to change, click on drop down arrow to select new role and then click Change
To Remove A User from a blog
This option removes the user by deleting them from the blog. It does not delete their username. Another alternative is to change their role to subscriber — as a subscriber they can only edit their profile.
- Go to Users > Authors & Users in your Dashboard
- Hover your mouse over their username and click Delete
