Roles and Capabilities of Writers on WP Blogs
Posted By Jacque on December 2, 2009
Did you ever wonder what the difference is between an Admin, Author, Contributor, Subscriber, etc. on the WordPress blogs? Well, being the Admin of several sites, we have different roles and capabilities we want to set for different writers.
I needed to set the roles for the writers so they could get comments and post a draft without publishing it on Gleaning the Harvest. I also needed to set some of the posts so that I posted them, but the persons they are about can also receive the comments. I needed to set them up an account to do that.
Obviously, an Administrator can do anything on a blog dashboard. The other roles on a WP blog are: Editor, Author, Contributor, and Subscriber. A Subscriber can only read and comment. The 3 in the middle are the tricky ones. You might want to give someone a certain amt of power on the Dashboard without giving them control over certain things. This page at WordPress Codex gives all the info – and a little more – that I needed: Roles and Capabilities
Here is what I needed to know:
Editor: can read, publish and delete any posts and pages, moderate comments, receive comments on the post they author, and manage links and categories.
Author: can publish and delete posts, manage their posts, and receive comments on the post they author.
Contributor: can edit and delete their own posts.
Subscriber: can read the published posts and comment.
I also needed to know if Contributors can receive comments on the posts they write, but I didn’t see that listed on there. I suppose I will know when the Contributors do or don’t receive comments! Of course, Amanda or Jocelyn may know.
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Mrs Dixon, I’m not sure if contributors can do that, but I sent Jocelyn a link to a plugin that allowed you to create “custom” roles with their own capabilities. Here’s the plugin and link:
Role Manager – http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/wordpress-plugins/role-manager/
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December 2nd, 2009 at 4:42 pm
AWESOME! Lisa! Thanks! That will be great!
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December 2nd, 2009 at 4:49 pm
You’re welcome. Happy to help.
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Nice post Mom. thanks for the comments! Love you.
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Miss Hannah
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Interesting… i always wondered about those!
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