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Understanding user roles

Posted on by Duncan Coutts

When you set up a blog 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.

The five roles you can assign users on a blog are, in decreasing level of responsibility:

  • Administrator
    Has complete power over posts, pages, plugins, comments, choice of theme, settings, assigning user roles, and deleting the site.
  • Editor
    Able to publish and manage posts/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.

Administrators can give access to others to edit the site.

How to create and edit post/pages

Posted on by Duncan Coutts

What are posts and pages?

WordPress allows you to add content to your site using ‘posts’ and ‘pages’. A post is a timely piece of content (eg an article, opinion piece or news update) that appears in your blog feed. A page is a static piece of content (eg an ‘About’ page, or page listing people or contact details), that usually appears in your site’s navigation menu.

Creating a post/page

Administrator, editor, author and contributor roles can all create post/pages.

Create a new post

  1. On the Dashboard, navigate to Posts > Add New.
  2. Give your post a title and add your content using the Visual Editor.
  3. Add your tags and categories.
  4. Preview your content.
  5. When you are happy with the end result, click Publish/Submit*.

Create a new page

  1. On the Dashboard, navigate to Pages > Add New.
  2. Give your page a title and add your content using the Visual Editor.
  3. Preview your content.
  4. When you are happy with the end result, click Publish/Submit*.
  5. If your site’s navigation menu is not set to add pages automatically, you may need to do this manually. Find out how to create and manage a custom menu (via EduBlogs).

*Contributor roles will have to submit their draft for review to an editor or administrator. Find out more about the difference between User Roles.

Editing a post/page

As an administrator or editor, you are able to edit any post/pages published or submitted for review by other blog contributors.

As an author, you are able to edit your own posts/pages, but not those written by others.

To edit a post, navigate to Posts > All posts and click on the Edit link under the post title you want to edit.

To edit a page, navigate to Pages > All pages and click on the Edit link under the page title you want to edit.

More about posts and pages

The Edublogs guide to posts and pages contains a full overview of posts and pages, the differences between them, and more instructions on managing content using them.