Hi guys i'm Shyam from websitelearners.com
today I'm going to show you how we can add new users to your WordPress site
so let's say you have a website
and you're the only person working on your side
now if you want to let another person contribute to your site
you can do it by adding a new user in WordPress
now when you add a new user you can give that user access to specific parts of your site
so for example if you want this person to write blog posts for you
you can use them access to just blog posts on your site
and they won't be able to make any other changes
now if you want to give this user full access
you can choose their access so that they can control the entire site
so let's get started
first we are going to see how to add a new user in WordPress
to add a new user
let's go to our WordPress dashboard
and then go to users
and click add new
now here we have to enter the details of the new user
so first let's enter a user name for this user and then enter their email
and their name
so once you have entered these details
just click show password to get the password for this user
and workers will give you a default password for this user
now if you want to change this password
just delete this
and then enter your own password
once you have entered all the details
you need to select the role of this user
so let's click here
and you can see that WordPress has different roles
you can keep for the new user
first let's look at the administrator role
so we'll select that
and after you have selected the role
just copy this username and password into a notepad
we are going to use these details in the next step
so let's open notepad
and then copy this username
and then the password
so once you have copied it
just click add user
and you can see that we have successfully added the new user
and it appears on our users list
now how will this user access our website
Now lets open notepad
now in order to let this user access our WordPress site
you need to share this username and password with that user
so once you have shared these details
the user will be able to login to your site
so next let's see how the user can login to our site
so let's open a new tab
let's say this is the users browser window
first they need to enter your site's address and then type slash login
so my site is quicktechy.com
so I'm going to enter that
and then iam going to add /login
now when they press Enter
it will take them to the login page of your website
so now the user has to enter their username
and password which you have shared with them
so let's open notepad
and then copy the username and password
into the login page
now if we click login
you can see that we have logged in as a new user
so this is how a new user can log into your website
so after logging in the user is able to access all the options
from the WordPress dashboard
now since we selected this users role as administrator
they will be able to control everything on this site
for example from this account we can change the theme or install a new plugin
or even add new users to the site
now if you don't want to give access to all of these settings of your site
you can restrict their access by changing their role in WordPress
so next let's see how we can change the role of a user
so to change the rule let's go back to our main WordPress account which is here
and here you can see the user which we added before
now let's click Edit
and if he's cruel down
you can see the role which we selected before
which is administrator
now let's change this role by clicking here
and you'll see different rules available for the user
now let's look at the most important roles which you can set for your users
the first rule is the administrator role
which gives a full access of your site to the user
if you want someone to build your site
or fix an issue with your site
you can give them the administrator role
so after the administrator role
there are three useful roles which you can keep for your users
the editor author and contributor
let's look at the editor role
when you select the users role as editor
user will be able to edit all of your posts and pages
but they won't have access to any other setting
such as your themes and plugins
so let's try it out will select editor
and then scroll down
and click update
now let's go back to our users account
and now we have selected our users role as editor
so if we click refresh you
you can see that most of the settings are hidden now
and the user can only access
your posts and pages
now if we go inside pages
you can see that we are able to edit or delete any of these pages
so this is what the editor role does
Now lets go back to the dashboard again
and let's try the next role
so let's click here
and let's look at the author role
now in WordPress whenever you publish a post
it'll be linked to the user who published it
so each post in WordPress
will have a user link to it
now the author role will allow the user
to create their own posts and then edit those posts
but they won't be able to edit any posts
which are created by other users
so let's try out the author role
will select it
and then scroll down
and click update user
and now we have selected the author role
so let's refresh our users dashboard
and you can see that the pages axis has been removed for this rule
now if we go to post
you can see that as these posts were created by a different user
we can only view these posts and we cannot edit them
but as an author we can click add new
and we can write and publish our own posts
now if I click publish
this post will be live on our site
So this is what the other rule does
so next let's see the contributor role
we'll go back to our users page
and let's select the role as contributor
now when you select contributor the user can write new posts
but it has to be approved by you before it can be published
so let's try it out
So let's select contributor
and then scroll down and click update user
okay so now we have selected the role as contributor so let's click refresh
now if we go to post
you can see that we cannot edit any posts
and if we click add new
you can see that instead of the publish button we have submit for review so as
you can see the contributor does not have access to publishing anything
but he can write his own post and then submit for review
so next let's try submitting a post for review
we'll write a new post
and then click Submit for review
now if we go to our main account and click post
you can see that we have got the contributors post which is marked as pending
now to publish this post all you have to do is go to edit
and then click publish
and as soon as you click publish this post will appear on your side
so this is how the contributor role works
the contributor can write new posts but it won't be published unless it's
approved by an editor or an admin
so these are the four main rules you can set for the user
first is admin then we have editor author and contributor so
that's it guys this is how you can add new users to your WordPress site and
choose what they can access
next if you want to create a business email for your website
you can watch this video
it shows you how we can create a business email for free
so thanks for watching I'll see you in the next video bye bye