WordPress allows multiple user roles with different privileges. If you are the sole user of a WordPress website, you are the administrator who has the full access and capacities. If you want to cooperate with others on the same WordPress site, you may want to create various WordPress users with various permissions. WordPress helps you create different user roles and assign capabilities to them easily. Below we will discuss what can different WordPress user roles do?
Most commonly, WordPress has five pre-defined user roles including author, administrator, editor, contributor and subscriber. Each user role has the ability to perform different tasks.
What Can Different WordPress Users Do?
Administrator – this basically is somebody who has access to all the administration features within a single site. WordPress Administrator has full access to the entire site and all the functions such as adding posts, adding pages, setting up new categories, installing and customizing WordPress themes, user management, WordPress system upgrade, and many more. Upon installing WordPress, an Administrator account is automatically created.
Editor – WordPress Editors is the user role who can publish and manage posts of their own and posts of all other users. WordPress editor can also manage and moderate categories, links and comments.
Author – WordPress author publish and manage their own posts and media library. Authors can not edit or delete posts of other WordPress users.
Contributor – WordPress Contributors can write and manage their own posts but cannot publish them. Administrators or editors need to review the post then decide to publish a post or not. Once a new post created by WordPress Contributor, he or she can read, edit and delete it.
Subscriber – WordPress Subscriber is somebody who can only manage their profile.
