Defining Wordpress Terms, Part 3 – Wordpress Author or User Roles Explained

Business web sites and personal blogs will normally have just one login or user. However, multi-user blogs or companies who wish to assign responsibility for certain areas of the site to different members of a team may choose to have more than one user.

In this case, the Admin would be the member with the most authority, or the site manager. An Admin has full access to the back-end of the site and can change the themes, edit theme and plugin files, switch out widgets, and more, as well as post articles and create new pages.

The Editor’s permissions are slightly less than an Admin. An Editor can’t change theme or plugin files, or select a new theme, but is authorized to create new pages and posts and to review and make live posts submitted by Authors and Contributors, and can also add links to a blog roll. Basically, an Editor has full content related permissions.

An Author may create and publish their own posts, but can not add to the blogroll, create new categories, or edit anyone else’s posts. They also have permissions to moderate, edit, and publish comments left on their own posts.

A Contributor may login and create a post, but can’t publish it to the site. When a Contributor has finished his or her post, he will submit it for review and it will be checked and then scheduled or published by an Admin or Editor.

Subscribers are readers or visitors who get a login to your Wordpress site, but they only have access to their own profile. The benefit for the subscriber is that once logged in, WP recognizes the user and automatically fills in the name, email address, and url when the user submits a comment. Some blogs require a user to register and become a subscriber before posting comments. However, most site owners prefer to turn off this requirement by visiting the Settings/Discussion tab of the WP Admin Dashboard. The site Admin may also turn off the subscription feature altogether by visiting the Settings/General tab and un-checking the “anyone may register” box.

For a nice audio/visual description of Wordpress user rolls, watch this training video.

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