Users
*Only administrators have permission to create users
Dig deeper: WordPress Roles and Capabilities
Self-paced training: Add/manage users
Users within your site must be actual umich people with uniquenames (they can’t be vendors or mcommunity groups, for example). You’ll assign them one of the following roles (listed here starting with the lowest level of responsibility):
Contributor: Can write and manage their own posts, but can’t publish them (i.e. maybe a student employee whose work you want to sign off on before it goes live)
- Author: Can publish and manage posts they have created. (i.e. a faculty member who creates and then manages their own profile page)
- Editor: Can publish and manage posts, including other people’s posts
- Admin: This person can do all the above things within a single site.
- SuperAdmin: This person can do all the things within all of the sites in a multi-site environment. (ie. Josh, engin-web)
Deleting users who no longer work on your site should be part of your offboarding and/or annual maintenance process.