Blog administrators can change a user’s role within the site. Different roles permit a user to have certain responsibilities and levels of control.
Five roles you can assign users on a blog (in decreasing level of responsibility).| Role | Permissions |
|---|---|
| Administrator | Has complete power over posts, pages, plugins, comments, choice of theme, settings, assigning user roles, and deleting the site. Can give access to others to edit the site. |
| Editor | Able to publish and manage posts and pages (including those written by other users), upload files and moderate comments. |
| Author | Can write and publish their own posts, and upload files. |
| Contributor | Can write posts but not publish them; these are instead submitted for review to an administrator or editor. |
| Subscriber | Can read and write comments. |
Change someone’s role
First, make sure your user is added to your blog.
Then you can change their role:
- On your site’s dashboard, navigate to Users > All Users.
- Make sure you are in your own site’s dashboard
- Select the checkbox next to their username.
- In the menu above the list of users, select the Change role to… dropdown
- Choose the relevant role for the access level they need and click the Change button.