How To Create Users in WordPress
In this tutorial, we will learn how to create users in WordPress. As you can see, WordPress allows you to create users according to their roles on your site. The administrator can create as many users as he needs by accessing privileges. Upon installing fresh WordPress, the Administrator is automatically created.
By default, WordPress has six default roles. And you can assign each role with capabilities from your site.
- Super Admin: has access to the entire network of sites i.e. multisite.
- Administrator: has access to the whole administration features on a single site.
- Editor: can only publish and manage posts along with other user’s posts.
- Author: Can only publish and manage their own posts.
- Contributor: Can only write and manage their own posts but has no access to publishing them.
- Subscriber: Can only manage their own profile.
How To Create Users in WordPress
- Login to your WordPress Dashboard, click or hover to the Users menu to expand the Users Menu.
- Click the Add New link to create a brand new user.
- In the Add New User page, enter Username, Email, First Name, Last Name, Website, and finally select Role for the user.
- Now click Add New User button to create a new user. You’ve successfully created a user according to the role.
- If you go to the All Users menu inside Users menu page, you’ll see your newly added user.
- Click the Help at the top of the screen page to see the basic overview of the User Roles. From there, you can see the details about the user’s privileges to help you decide to grant the access to your new user.
