Sometimes we take the simplest things for granted, when this is not always the case. And precisely the WordPress user roles are one of those things, which seems to be clear to everyone, but which can sometimes cause some confusion, or at least that is what I have perceived from experience.
So, to clarify this matter in an easy way, I have created this table with which we can quickly see what permissions each of the roles that come by default have in any WordPress installation:
Thus, we see that WordPress comes by default with 5 user roles, namely:
- Subscriber: This can only read public posts, it’s usually the same as someone who isn’t subscribed or logged in, but it just differs because they have an account.
- Collaborator: The grace of this is that it can send us entries that we will decide whether to publish. Very useful to offer the user the possibility of participating as a guest writer.
- Author: He is already allowed to publish his entries without the administrator having to validate them. Be careful, because an author can already publish, edit and delete your posts, which will be seen publicly on the web. Of course, you are allowed to upload files, since in many posts you will have to upload images.
- Editor: This goes one step further, since apart from having all the capabilities of an author, he also has the power to edit and delete any author’s entries. Imagine that if it were a magazine, the author would be a journalist, and the editor would be the “boss” of the journalists, that is, the “chief editor”, who can edit the content of others. In addition, you can also manage tags, categories and comments. Although the editor can also publish their own posts, they usually have more of a “moderator” role.
- Administrator: This is God. You can do whatever you want related to the administration of both the content and the web itself: Edit and configure the desk (the home page of the control panel), to update WordPress, themes and plugins, install, edit, change and even delete themes and pluginsand obviously add, edit or delete users.
So, it is always advisable to give the minimum role required to each user of our WordPress. If, for example, we hire someone to write posts (articles, posts) It is not necessary that we give it the role of administrator, much less, since it can mess up brown. And not on purpose, but simply by mistake. For example, you can see a notice to update WordPress or plugins, and hit “update” in all good faith, without first checking for incompatibility or version conflicts. So, all that we save.
Anyway, if you want to know more about the users, I recommend the , in which in chapter 9 I talk at length about all this and you can see it in video tutorials in real time, to see how to configure everything step by step 🙂
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