WP-User Roles
Subscriber Role
A subscriber role is default role that is assigned to any user that registers to the site. A subscriber can comment on your blog without having to enter their details and also modify your database by setting up their profiles.
Subscriber Role in WordPress;
* Modify their Profiles
* Comment on the blog (when logged in) without having to provide name and email, unless you change that in the settings.
Contributor Role
A Contributor to your site can compose articles unlike subscribers, however they cannot publish or schedule the articles. Any article written by a contributor can be saved as draft or under pending review. A contributor can only contribute towards the site, however they do not have rights to publish a article.
Contributor Role In WordPress;
* All of the Subscribers privileges+
* View comments in the administrator panel.
* Add new posts to drafts or to pending review.
* Edit their own posts.
* View posts added by others in post listing section, however they cannot view drafts and scheduled post, but they can see the titles.
Author Role
An author can write articles, add it up as pending review, save it under drafts and they can publish what they write. Be careful to only give this access to people that you have vetted first.
Author Role in WordPress;
* All of the Contributor privileges+
* View posts added by others in post listing section, however they cannot view drafts and scheduled post, but they can see the titles.
Editor Role
The Editor role can do all of the above, they can edit other post and change any post. WordPress does track who last edited a post and when for auditing.
Administrator Role
An administrator account has full control over your entire website, they can DELETE your entire blog, they can DELETE all comments. An admin user on a WordPress blog is responsible for upgrading the blog, upgrading plugins, moderating comments among other things.
We strongly advise that you do not give admin access to anyone but yourself and your technical support person.
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