WordPress is the ideal platform for Create a blog or website with multiple authors. Whether you have a collaborative project or want to start working with a freelancer who writes content for you, WordPress gives you plenty of options for managing access to your site.
However, there are a few important things to consider before you start giving users access to your WordPress site. As is common with WordPress, granting access to your site is no exception. If you're wrong, you could be putting your site at risk. Weakening site security, and you will be open to costly usage errors. So you need to make sure you make things reliable and secure.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to set up “author” access to allow publications on your blog. We'll take a look at the best user roles and who you should assign each role to. We'll also cover how to customize the capabilities of existing user roles on WordPress or how to create a new role with custom capabilities on your site.
Understanding user roles in WordPress
Without configuration, WordPress has a good user role play. From the Almighty Administrator role to the very limited Subscriber role, for most projects there should be a predefined WordPress user role that fits your needs. Sometimes, however, this is not the case. When this situation arises, you'll be happy to learn that you can customize WordPress user roles with relative ease, as well as create your own additional roles.
How to customize WordPress user roles
One option is to use an appropriate WordPress authoring management plugin, such as Improved Capacity Manager "(Capacity Manager Enhanced) to customize the contributor's user roles. Customizing WordPress user roles is relatively straightforward. All you have to do is check some boxes.
However, tracking changes and new access you have given to existing users could be confusing. At worst, you could end up granting high-level access to an inappropriate subset of your users.
If customizing basic WordPress functionality and changing user roles aren't required, then don't worry. The good news is that there is more than one suitable role for adding new users to your site in this capacity. For your project, a better content creation role might be the “Author” role, as they have access to the article editor and can publish their own articles. They can also set the featured image for an article. This gives them all the functionality they need to create a fully formed article on your blog.
However, you should proceed with caution, as this level of access is offering much more than what you are willing to provide. To remedy this, as before, you can use the privilege manager to modify what users with the author role can do on your site.
What is the best role for managing content in WordPress?
When it comes to creating a user account on your WordPress site for someone who will manage the content on your site then the best option is the role of the editor. This user role is at a lower level than the administrator role, so you must choose who you assign it to.
Not only users with the role of editor can create and manage their own pages, but also they can also manage articles created by other users. Since editors can moderate comments, they have sufficient capabilities to handle all aspects of content creation on your site. This role is however perfect for outsourcing or for an expert in Content marketing in your team.
In most cases, you won't need to grant access to the Editor role, as author or contributor roles are often more appropriate. However, if you hire someone to review and publish content submitted to your site by others then the editor role is the user's best role.
That's all for this tutorial, I hope you will have better how to manage roles on your WordPress blog.
