WP - How Roles Are Assigned
Originally Posted by
lausha
My users are automatically Authors. I didn't set this, it just happened. Is that bad? What are the advantages/disadvantages?
Subscriber
Subscribers have the ability to read your blog posts. This is the same level as unregistered readers and visitors to your blog so why do you need a role for this? The answer is you may not need this level, but some blogs have featured available only to logged in and registers users. Some of those may be:
•To leave comments, this is a spam control procedure
•To see certain posts
•For a private blog where only registered users are granted access, and creation of the users is left up to the administrator
There are various plugins which require a subscriber role so out of the box the subscriber role may not seem necessary, but each installation is individual.
Contributor
Moving up the scale contributors are at a level where they can create content on your blog.
The contributor can read posts, create and edit posts from the dashboard. They can also delete their own posts which have not been published.
The point to note about contributors is that they can create draft posts but cannot publish them. A more trusted user level is required to edit and make the post publicly available.
Author
An author is a more trusted level of contributor, they have all of the permissions of a contributor, but they can also publish their own posts, delete their own published posts and also upload files to add to posts e.g. images to include in posts or videos to play within a post.
Authors only have control over their own content, other authors and contributors posts can be read but not edited or amended.
Editor
When we reach an editor level we move into site wide permission territory. As the name suggests editors have control over other users content to publish delete and create new posts, but an editor can also created amend and delete pages, have access to, and control over posts marked as private. Check out the visibility of a post it can be public, password protected or private, only editors and above can see private posts and pages.
Editors can create categories, and blog roll link entries, moderate comments and even create and amend new users.
Editors are trusted members of your organisation, they can affect your blog at a fundamental level. What they cannot do is change the look and feel of the site, for that we need an ….
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