Always give the appropriate user in WordPress

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WordPress comes standard with the ability to give your website users different roles and responsibilities.

If your website has multiple users, it is important to give all users the appropriate roles and permissions for your own safety.

So it is not convenient for example, that someone who writes only for items you get the user role administrator.

Make only one administrator account

A secure WordPress installation is in the ideal world but one administrator. All other users on the sites it's best to give a different role with fewer rights.

The administrator account because only hear for the user who runs the website, keep up-to-date, may modify the files and stuff. This is definitely not something you want to empower everyone because a mistake is easily made and can have serious consequences for your website.

When someone else makes your website work that requires administrator rights, this is obviously not a problem and you have to create an additional administrator account. When the work is done you better delete this account again or give a lower part (subscriber). This way you can prevent abuse is made from the account.

Which user roles are available in WordPress?

When you create a new WordPress user, you always have the possibility to give it a certain role. The following user roles are the default roles that are built into WordPress:

• administrator
• Editor
• Author
• Writer
• Subscriber

When you get to see more roll on your site you will probably have to run a plugin that does this. For example, a shop or membership plugin can all provide additional user roles in WordPress.

The default roles have the opportunity to show what a user can and can not do on your website. Below you can read what you can do with each user role.

administrator

The administrator of a WordPress website has access to all WordPress components and has the power to do all that is possible in WordPress. As an administrator, you can include the following:

• Update WordPress;
• Installing WordPress themes and plugins, edit, delete and update;
• Posts, pages, create and delete categories and tags (also from other users);
• add new users or edit or delete existing users;
• Managing menus;
• Add widgets and remove;
• Upload files to WordPress;
• moderate comments;
• adjust all settings;
• And much more.

Editor

The editor role is for users who are allowed to see all the content, edit and manage. The editor has no further rights to make changes to the settings of WordPress, plugins or themes.

The editor can make itself new posts and pages as well as posts and pages that are made available by other users, edit or even delete. Furthermore, the editor can also moderate comments.

Author

An author has the right to create items and his or her own view articles, edit and manage. When an item is finished, the author can publish the article without having to watch an editor or administrator accordingly.

Writer

The user role as the writer must create author articles, view, and edit. Unlike an author may publish his or her own articles a writer only yourself. Articles that makes a writer must first be checked for publication by the editor or administrator of the website.

Subscriber

A subscriber may actually nothing on your website, other than reading the articles published and update their profile information.

The subscriber role is therefore often given to users on sites where courses can be followed in a membership area.

Give users the appropriate user

With the above information can be all users on your website the right role to keep as safe as possible your website. Give any users unnecessarily more rights than is necessary to prevent problems.

This allows you to someone who first gives an article for you better write the author role, then that makes you a writer or editor straight away. You do not know what they are going to publish and would certainly not this person immediately has the ability to remove other items.

Administrator privileges You must not be given to anyone, but if all goes well you this himself can understand. Always use common sense and do not give someone more rights than necessary because he or she insists on it.