Note: Permissions can only be applied to the entire website, and cannot be page-specific.
To add editors or administrators to your WordPress website, first log in to access your site and make edits, then follow these steps:
- Click on Users in the left-hand navigation.
- Click Add New User.
- On the Add New User page, under the Add New User heading, enter the Username (their University of Michigan uniqname) and E-mail (their uniqname@umich.edu email address) for the new user:
- Select from the following using the Role drop-down menu:
- Administrator – Has access to all the administration features within the website
- Editor – Can publish and manage pages and posts, including those created by other users
- Author – Can publish and manage only their own posts
- Contributor – Can write and manage their own pages, but cannot publish them
- Subscriber – Can only manage their site profile
- Check the Add the user without sending them a confirmation email box in the Skip Confirmation Email section. Note that if you do send them a confirmation email, and they do not click the link that comes in that email, their account will deactivate within 30 days.
- Click the blue Add New User button.
To remove access for a user:
- Click on Users in the left-hand navigation.
- Click All Users, if not already selected by default.
- Hover your cursor over the uniqname of the person you want to remove, and click the Remove link that appears underneath.