WordPress 2.9 User Roles
Posted in WordPress | By AhTim @ January 15th, 2010
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Recently there are a few Bloggers want to guest blog here. Hope this is the right place for them to share articles with you all, and make here more lively.
The writing style might be slightly different but don’t worry. You will benefit from these experience writer too! I hope you do enjoy and give your feedback to me directly at here.
User Rights and Roles
In order to make live easier, I have created WordPress account for them in my blog. In fact this is the first time I created multiple user accounts here. The are several roles, each role has certain level of rights.
- Subscriber – Can read comments, news letter ONLY. Basically useless, unless for private post.
- Administrator – Full permission who has access to all the administration features.
- Editor – Can publish, edit, and delete any posts/pages, moderate comments, manage categories, manage tags, manage links and upload files/images.
- Author – Can edit, publish and delete their posts, as well as upload files/images
- Contributor – Can edit their posts but cannot publish them. It will need to be submitted to an administrator for review. No edit after published and can’t upload images.
So, think properly before assign a role to Guest Blogger. Simply give out full right (Administrator or Editor) to unknown people is dangerous, unless you are very trust on them.
In my case, I assign Contributor to Guest Blogger. All articles need my approval before publish to the world! Are you interested to Guest Blog here? Contact me and submit the topics you’re writing on. 
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