The Users menu in the Site Admin dashboard allows you to add, change, or delete your site’s users.
You can also search for users, make bulk changes and delete selected users.
You have a range of options once the required user is located:
Edit
When you click on the Edit action link it takes you to the Edit User panel for that user where you can view and edit the user’s details.
The Edit action link is only visible to the Super Admin user.
You use the Edit User panel to:
- Change the display name of a user
- Change the email address attached to a userneme
- Manually reset the password of a user
Remove
When you click on the Remove action link it takes you to the Remove User from Site panel where you can confirm removal of a user from that site.
Change Roles to
The Change Role to drop down menu lets you change the roles of a user.
The standard roles WordPress users on sites are assigned are based on how much access you want the user to have:
- Administrator
- Editor
- Author
- Contributor
- Subscriber
The Administrator has the highest access of the site users and is able to use all enabled site features, while a subscriber has the lowest, only able to read and write comments (for more information check out the comparison charts below).
You need to consider carefully what role you assign all users because on group sites Administrators are able to remove other users, including other administrators, and editors can delete content.
Summary of user roles based on their Capability:
Summary of differences between users based on access to dashboard menus:
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