You can add and and remove users from your WordPress dashboard.
Add a User
1. Login to your WordPress website, and navigate to the Users section. Sometimes, you may need to scroll down to find it.
2. Select “Add New”.
3. Fill in the form.
The username should be something that the user will remember.
The email should be an active email address. This will be the address to which a “lost password” email is sent.
First Name, Last Name, and Website are not necessary, but you can fill them in if you wish.
The password should be STRONG! We recommend using some sort of password manager, as we understand that memorizing a bunch of long passwords is difficult.
You can choose to notify the user via email about their account or not.
WordPress have a variety of Roles:
- Administrator (slug: ‘administrator’) – somebody who has access to all the administration features within a single site.
- Editor (slug: ‘editor’) – somebody who can publish and manage posts including the posts of other users.
- Author (slug: ‘author’) – somebody who can publish and manage their own posts.
- Contributor (slug: ‘contributor’) – somebody who can write and manage their own posts but cannot publish them.
- Subscriber (slug: ‘subscriber’) – somebody who can only manage their profile.
More on this can be found at WordPress.org. It is important to assign the correct role to the correct user within your organization if you don’t wish to give them full access to everything on the backend of your website.
4. Click “Add New User.”
Remove a User
1. Hover over the user you wish to delete, and then click “delete”.
2. Confirm the deletion by clicking “Confirm Deletion” button.
