{"id":2013,"date":"2018-07-04T16:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T06:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/docs\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=2013"},"modified":"2018-07-20T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T23:35:08","slug":"wordpress-roles-explained","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/docs\/knowledge-base\/wordpress-roles-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress roles explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress has a number of built-in roles, each of which have different levels of access to the system. As an administrator you should assign your users the role most appropriate to their needs and no higher.<\/p>\n<h3>Subscriber<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Has access to the Dashboard only to edit their own profile, which allows them to change their display name and password.<\/li>\n<li>Cannot create or edit any content or upload any media.<\/li>\n<li>This role is most commonly used for <em>end users<\/em> or consumers of your content, where your content is not public and requires a login to access.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Contributor<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Has all the privileges of a Subscriber, plus the ability to create content.<\/li>\n<li>A contributor can write and manage their own posts but cannot publish them. Instead, an editor will be required to review and publish the completed content.<\/li>\n<li>A contributor cannot edit a post created by someone else.<\/li>\n<li>Use this role where you want an editor to review all content before it goes live.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Author<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Has all the privileges of a Contributor, plus the ability to publish their own content.<\/li>\n<li>An author can only edit and publish content created by themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Use this role where you want a user to be responsible for a particular page or section only.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Editor<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Has all the privileges of an Author, plus the ability edit or delete content created by other users.<\/li>\n<li>Editors can effectively do anything they like with content but lack the ability to manage users and other administrative tasks.<\/li>\n<li>Most of your users will probably require this role if you do not have any specific content creation workflow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Administrator<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Has all the privileges of an Editor, plus access to administrative functions<\/li>\n<li>Add and remove users from the site<\/li>\n<li>Change the site theme<\/li>\n<li>Edit menus and widgets<\/li>\n<li>Customise the theme colours and layouts<\/li>\n<li>Not everyone needs to be an administrator &#8211; assign this role wisely!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress has a number of built-in roles, each of which have different levels of access to the system. As an administrator you should assign your users the role most appropriate to their needs and no higher. Subscriber Has access to the Dashboard only to edit their own profile, which allows&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[193],"ht-kb-tag":[212,213,214],"class_list":["post-2013","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-user-management","ht_kb_tag-admin","ht_kb_tag-security","ht_kb_tag-users"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2013\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}